Global Categories) not possible to remove?

el_es 2012-03-08 17:24:25 UTC #1

Hi, just stumbled upon a weird one :

Usually we (admins) add categories to Global Categories for users to use;
This time we’ve noticed someone added categories using his Addressbook menu,
then Edit Categories;
The categories can be seen, but in the list, where they should be possible to Add sub,
Edit and Delete, /no/ icon or link is shown that would allow these actions…
There are invisible links linking to [host name]/egroupware/index.php?menuaction=preferences.uicategories.index
… both under Edit and Delete columns, link the same;
I smell some mismatch in etemplate…

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rsteinmetz70112 2012-03-08 17:47:40 UTC #2

I had a similar experience.

As far as I can tell in the Community Version it is not possible for
anyone other than the Owner to edit individual categories and there is
no way I could find to convert individual categories to Global
Categories. I could not even find a way to determine who the Owner of
them is, other than logging into each user’s account and see if I could
edit them. I thought it was my own ignorance, a common occurrence.

I suppose you could find a way to directly manipulate the database
tables, but that seems awfully dangerous.

It seems to me that the Administrator should be able to see who owns
these and edit the individual categories or to convert them to Global
Categories.

Lukasz Sokol wrote:

Hi, just stumbled upon a weird one :

Usually we (admins) add categories to Global Categories for users to use;
This time we’ve noticed someone added categories using his Addressbook menu,
then Edit Categories;
The categories can be seen, but in the list, where they should be possible to Add sub,
Edit and Delete, /no/ icon or link is shown that would allow these actions…
There are invisible links linking to [host name]/egroupware/index.php?menuaction=preferences.uicategories.index
… both under Edit and Delete columns, link the same;
I smell some mismatch in etemplate…

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el_es 2012-03-09 11:05:17 UTC #3

OK, I have (using phpmyadmin as mysql root (!)) edited the egw_categories table,
changed the categories’ cat_owner to -1 and cat_appname to phpgw;
then upon logout-log in again, the bogus categories have shown themselves in
Global Categories editor, where I used ‘normal’ (as admin user) way to delete them;

Other than that, +1 for Robert…

Lukasz

I had a similar experience.

As far as I can tell in the Community Version it is not possible for
anyone other than the Owner to edit individual categories and there
is no way I could find to convert individual categories to Global
Categories. I could not even find a way to determine who the Owner of
them is, other than logging into each user’s account and see if I
could edit them. I thought it was my own ignorance, a common
occurrence.

I suppose you could find a way to directly manipulate the database
tables, but that seems awfully dangerous.

It seems to me that the Administrator should be able to see who owns
these and edit the individual categories or to convert them to
Global Categories.

Lukasz Sokol wrote:

Hi, just stumbled upon a weird one :

Usually we (admins) add categories to Global Categories for users
to use; This time we’ve noticed someone added categories using his
Addressbook menu, then Edit Categories; The categories can be seen,
but in the list, where they should be possible to Add sub, Edit and
Delete, /no/ icon or link is shown that would allow these
actions… There are invisible links linking to [host
name]/egroupware/index.php?menuaction=preferences.uicategories.index

… both under Edit and Delete columns, link the same;

I smell some mismatch in etemplate…

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