Add "Manage own Preferences" to web user Profiles

[Robert_in_MTL]

Hi,

Would it be possible to give administrators the ability to remove this "user right"?

Currently, I am allowing groups of users to "Look but don't touch" using the Guest account on the intranet. However, guest account users are clicking on the Preferences tab and modifying the settings -- which impacts the interface for all other guest account users.

The best way to remedy this would be to give administrators the ability to create "view only" accounts which would have no "controls" such as: "refresh" and "mark all" or buttons such as "stop HM". The "view only" accounts would only contain the folder browser on the left and a clean, simple header. I would then set my guest account as "view only".

Of course, I could set individual profiles for each user; but this would render the guest account useless. Also, I know that after a control command, the web popup window would say "you don't have rights to do this...", but that's not the point...

Ideally, as an administrator, I should be able to activate or deactivate the "Manage own Preferences" option within the guest profile. Specifically, I would like to add the ability to activate or deactivate the "Manage own Preferences" option on the User Profiles pop-up in the RCC interface. This could be in the form of a "View Only" radio button or check box labelled "Set account as -View Only-" that, when selected, would gray-out the items in the "User has rights to" list -- rendering the account as view only.

Thank you for your time and keep up the good work,

[KS-Soft]

I think we can implement that. Medium priority task

Regards
Alex

[Robert_in_MTL]

Excellent!

When you implement this, could you see if you could make the -view only- option to freeze the account preferences. This way, as an administrator, I could set user preferences, then freeze them with that option.

Thank you.