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Why are all the activities display in the dashboard for admins ?
July 02, 2009, 01:41:01 am
Hi,

I'm admin on all the civicrm installs, and I can't use the activities very effectively because the dashboard is filled with all activities, not only mines.

What was the rationnal for that ? Can I disable it ?

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Re: Why are all the activities display in the dashboard for admins ?
July 02, 2009, 05:20:10 am
In Drupal it's a specific permission under access control: view all activities. if you disable that priv then you won't have to see them.

it may still also be connected to 'administer civicrm' priv as well.

or you can hack the permissions if you don't like the above options...it used to be at

Line 176 civicrm/CRM/Contact/Page/View/Dashboard.php: $admin = CRM_Core_Permission::check( 'view all activities') || CRM_Core_Permission::check('administer CiviCRM' );

you could remove the priv for administer civicrm on that line.

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Re: Why are all the activities display in the dashboard for admins ?
July 02, 2009, 06:39:15 am
Hi,

But why is that there in the first place ? I'm tempted to change the code and commit, but I'm assuming it didn't come by accident, and was wondering what was the initial usage .

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Re: Why are all the activities display in the dashboard for admins ?
July 02, 2009, 07:38:31 am

the theory was that admins would like a global overview and hence we show all activities.

a better idea might be to implement a switch for admins bettween Show All Activities and Show My Activities. We've taken this approach in some CiviCase pages

wanna code this up as a patch?

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Re: Why are all the activities display in the dashboard for admins ?
July 02, 2009, 07:46:13 am
this usage was changed by an issue i submitted because staff members (who don't have administer civicrm priv) wanted to be able to see all activities and it seemed appropriate to separate it out (which i still think it is).

however, lobo's idea of a switch specific to admins (which is separate from the view all activities priv) seems like a great idea.
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