Permission to create Event in CiviEvent

[kdas]

Is there a way to allow an authenticated user to create/manage an event without giving CiviCrm Administrator privilege? I am using CiviCrm within Drupal. I am new to CiviCrm. Thanks is advance.

[Donald Lobo]

No. You will have to tweak the permissioning code in CRM/Event/Menu.php and loosen the permissions a bit if needed

lobo

[kdas]

Thanks so much for your prompt reply.

[keitha]

Hi

This would be a blocker issue for us. Creating events should definitely be a 'user' action and not an 'administrator' action.
Was there a specific design decision why this was implemented this way?

Modifying the php code seems like a workaround in this case. What would happen when we upgrade to 2.0 - do we have to remember to modify the php code again?

Is it possible to log improvement requests such as this in Jira, or is it a case of 'please fix and submit your patch'?

Regards
Keith

[Donald Lobo]

CiviCRM Events are fairly "heavy" weight objects. An online event registration form, could potentially involve civicrm profiles (hence custom data) and a payment processor, which are also admin related actions. Thus it did not make sense to make it a "user" action

I'd probably recommend creating a "simplified" create event interface and exposing that to a "user". A simplified event could have a lot of the features hidden / set to a system wide default value. Can u elaborate more on your use case

This is a case of please file a patch along with your issue

lobo

[bchoc]

At my org. there are program staff who should be entering events themselves.  I realize this means they have somewhat significant power, but to give them full Admin Access would allow them to -- probably accidentally -- hose the system.  Easily.   

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Default+Permissions+and+Roles

I appreciate that the permissions aren't as described in the documentation, but a separate "Create/Manage Events" permission may be necessary for CiviEvent to be functional in many orgs. where technical staff do not want programmatic or administrative staff having administrative access.

[bchoc]

That said, editing /CRM/Event/Menu.php to adjust permissions for these things is very easy.  Didn't get me the handy "Configure" link, but good enough!

On a tangent, I tried to change access for the ical and feeds and whatnot in this file, but it didn't work.  If I want anonymous access to view the list of events, but not register for them, can anybody tell me where would I make that change?

bc