User Mode Node Display

[BillHeaton]

Prerequisites

• [x ] I have searched for similar issues in both open and closed tickets and cannot find a duplicate.
• [x ] The issue still exists against the latest master branch of yii2-tree-manager.
• [x ] This is not an usage question. I confirm having gone through and read the documentation and demos.
• [x ] This is not a general programming / coding question. (Those should be directed to the webtips Q & A forum).
• I have attempted to find the simplest possible steps to reproduce the issue.
• I have included a failing test as a pull request (Optional).

Enhancement

Currently isAdmin only controls the checkboxes on the node management form. It can be argued that the rest of the fields are still Management information.

I want to use the control to navigate a node tree and display node information of my choosing when isadmin is false.

I suggest:

1. isAdmin controls the showing of the entire node management form.
2. When isAdmin is false then a user form would be displayed
3. When isAdmin is true then add a button to flip between user form and management form.

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[BillHeaton]

@kartik-v I've made good progress on this one. I'm down in the kv-tree.js guts and have this urge to document the code. Would that cause you heart burn?

[kartik-v]

@BillHeaton - thanks for the effort ... it would be good if you can share a PULL REQUEST --

[BillHeaton]

@kartik-v will do, working on the last little bit now.

[kartik-v]

Thanks. Just one note though - the extension currently as well allows user to always configure and choose his/her own CUSTOM FORM if needed. Just check in your enhancement if the user can have both options - use the default form (for simple internal admin forms) - OR/AND use the custom form for advanced needs.

[BillHeaton]

The problem I'm solving is that I have many users, and only the admins will be allowed to modify the tree. The plan is to use the widget as a navigation aid using a custom detail that contains the information to display to the user.

That's mostly working and I've created a user detail that a read-only version of the isAdmin detail.

Working on implementing a button that when in isAdmin mode flips it to a "user view." The user detail view (if isAdmin is set) in turn has a button to flip back to the "admin view."

Planning on putting a pull request out because "it's almost" working but has problems with the flipping. I need other eyes to look at it. Currently using a session variable however may need to be moved to parameters.