Re: Creating an auditor to prevent some users from deleting issues/messages/files

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ralf Schlatterbeck" <[email protected]>
> To: "roundup-users" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, March 5, 2015 12:03:47 AM
> Subject: Re: [Roundup-users] Creating an auditor to prevent some users from deleting issues/messages/files
> 
> On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 05:39:49PM -0800, Dan Tenenbaum wrote:
> > Similarly, how would I create an auditor to reject new issues that
> > have the same title as an existing issue?
> 
> You check 'newvalues' for the 'title' property in an auditor and
> search
> for this title in the existing issues, e.g.
> 
> new_title = newvalues.get ('title')
> if new_title is None:
>     return
> for id in db.issue.filter (None, dict (title = new_title)):
>     t = db.issue.get (id, 'title')
>     if t == new_title:
>         raise...
> 
> Note that since filter can only search for substrings you have to
> compare all found issues for an exact match. There currently is no
> way
> (except by resorting to sql) to search for exact matches. In one of
> the
> latest patches the search has also been made case-insensistive for
> all
> the sql backends.
> 
> You would have to register this auditor for the 'set' and 'create'
> actions.
> 
> (I don't know if it's a good idea to not allow duplicate titles in
> issues)
> 

Thanks, this works great. In our particular case, we really have a need to do this, but I understand that not everyone should.

Dan


> Ralf
> 
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