[rt-users] How to adjust 'Organization' in 'About me'

[Ruslan Zakirov]

Take a look at _OverlayAccessible in lib/RT/User.pm.

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 17:07, Jeffery, Guy
<Guy.Jeffery at baesystemsdetica.com> wrote:
> Actually, that was rather my point - the ModifySelf right *doesn't* affect this field - users with ModifySelf aren't able to edit the Organisation field (at least in the version I'm running - 3.8.9).
>
> The other option that appears to exist is a custom field - however, I don't seem to be able add a Custom Field to the 'About me' window either. Any guidance around this as well would be much appreciated!
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Guy
>
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> On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 12:42:32PM -0000, Jeffery, Guy wrote:
>>    Quick question that hopefully is fairly easy to resolve - my users want to be able to adjust
>>    their 'Organization' within 'About me' in the Preferences menu.
>>
>>    Providing 'ModifySelf' privileges to users allows adjustment of every other field on that
>>    screen, apart from Organization. What privilege do users need to alter this?
>>
>>    I'm using RT 3.8.7 and 3.8.9.
>
> ModifySelf is the only right that affects this unfortunately, and it's
> an all or nothing right.
>
> You'd need to write some code to restrict what is updated, or you
> could use something similar to the LDAPImporter extension to suck in
> correct organization data from an up-to-date external source.
>
> -kevin
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