Real Issue Tracker

It can be done with permissions. Sort of. There's a permission called "Add Issue Tracker Issues" which you can disable for these kind of people. But that doesn't solve the whole problem. You'll need to write a monkey patch to solve  the problem and patch the _getMenuItems() function.

 Your issuetracker probably has a self.menu_items that looks like this:

 [
 {'href': '/', 'inurl': '', 'label': 'Home'},
 {'href': '/AddIssue', 'inurl': ('AddIssue', 'SaveDraftIssue'), 'label': 'Add Issue'},
 {'href': '/QuickAddIssue', 'inurl': 'QuickAddIssue', 'label': 'Quick Add Issue'},
 {'href': '/ListIssues', 'inurl': 'ListIssues', 'label': 'List Issues'},
 {'href': '/CompleteList', 'inurl': 'CompleteList', 'label': 'Complete List'}
]

What you can do is monkey patch _getMenuItems() for something like this:

 from Products.IssueTrackerProduct.IssueTracker import IssueTracker
 from Products.IssueTrackerProduct.Constants import DEFAULT_MENU_ITEMS
 def better_getMenuItems(self):
      if hasattr(self, 'getCustomMenuItems'):
          return self.getCustomMenuItems()
      else:
          return getattr(self, 'menu_items', DEFAULT_MENU_ITEMS)
 IssueTracker._getMenuItems = better_getMenuItems

Once you've done that, you can, inside any issuetracker instance, create a python script called "getCustomMenuItems" which looks like this::

return  [
 {'href': '/', 'inurl': '', 'label': 'Home'},
  #{'href': '/AddIssue', 'inurl': ('AddIssue', 'SaveDraftIssue'), 'label': 'Add Issue'},
  #{'href': '/QuickAddIssue', 'inurl': 'QuickAddIssue', 'label': 'Quick Add Issue'},
 {'href': '/ListIssues', 'inurl': 'ListIssues', 'label': 'List Issues'},
 {'href': '/CompleteList', 'inurl': 'CompleteList', 'label': 'Complete List'}
]

For more info on monkey patching, see this page http://www.issuetrackerproduct.com/Documentation/How-Tos/monkey-patching

 

Thanks Peter,

I will try that, but would that cause any problem with future upgrades?

Would I have to do the same for a future release or it will only break if a specific piece of the code (_getMenuItems) changes in a future release?

Sorry for the ignorance, but haven't had experience with monkey patching before!

Thanks

I hope you didn't spend too much time already on a monkey patch

Check this out

That looks very nice indeed Pete :-)
Exactly what I was looking for.

Fortunately I was busy with other things, so I didn't have the time to do the 'monkey patch'!

Excellent, thanks a lot and well done !

P.S. Didn't have time to check the other issues. I'll report back if there's anything.