Remove WHO IS ONLINE WIDGET

[mywebguy]

How do I stop this from showing to anyone but the FULL ADMIN ? 

[brian!]

On 20/03/2019 at 06:55, mywebguy said:

How do I stop this from showing to anyone but the FULL ADMIN ? 

do you mean the Staff Online or the Client Activity widget ??

[mywebguy]

Yes,  the Staff Online.

Also the  Client Activity widget 

[brian!]

17 hours ago, mywebguy said:

Yes,  the Staff Online. Also the  Client Activity widget 

usually, the admin dashboard widgets contains permissions of who is allowed to view them...

https://docs.whmcs.com/Admin_Dashboard#Showing.2FHiding_Widgets

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The following table itemises all widgets that are included with WHMCS by default and the permissions required for each.

Name	Description	Required Permission
Activity	Recent system activity to keep you up to date with what's happening	View Activity Log
Automation	An overview of system automation. Click a miniature graph to see a the full version on the Automation Status page	Configure Automation Settings
Billing	An overview of income over four periods; daily, monthly, yearly and all time	View Income Totals
Client Activity	A brief overview of the last 5 client logins, including dates/times & IP addresses	List Clients
Health	An overview of System Health, links through tot he main System Health Status page	Health and Updates
Network Status	Listing your servers and allowing you to check the status (if status url monitoring has been implemented)	None
System Overview	An overview of orders and income in graphical format. The timescale can be changed to show daily, monthly or yearly	View Income Totals
System Overview Badges	Displayed at the top of the page, the colourful badges provide a quick statistical overview including orders, cancellation, and tickets	None
Staff Online	Shows currently logged in staff. If the staff member's email address corresponds with a Gravatar account, the Gravatar image will be used.	None
Support	An overview of support awaiting reply tickets, tickets assigned to your account and tickets with recent activity	List Support Tickets
To-Do List	An overview of support awaiting reply tickets, tickets assigned to your account and tickets with recent activity	To-Do List

as you can see from the above list, "Client Activity" requires the admin role to have "List Clients" enabled in their role in order to see the widget - if it is unticked, then they will not see this widget.

so if this admin role doesn't need to see the list of clients, then keeping this option unticked in their admin role settings is the simplest solution... if they do need to see the list of clients, then you could modify the widget code and choose another permission that is ticked for your "Full Administrator" role, but is unticked for the roles that you want to hide the widget from - it wouldn't really matter which permission you choose.

the "Staff Online" widget doesn't contain any permission restrictions, so all admins will see it - however, as with the "Client Activity", if you modify the widget code (/modules/widgets/Staff.php) and assign it a permission, e.g "List Clients", then only those admin roles with that permission ticked will see the widget...

protected $requiredPermission = 'List Clients';

though a default widget which has modified code would probably get replaced by the Automatic Updater - you may rename the file to avoid the file being overwritten, but the updater would probably restore the original file anyway.

there is another problem with Staff Online in that the list of online admins is shown in the sidebar - to remove that, you would either have to edit the sidebar.tpl template (which again would get replaced by the automatic updater), or null the array used using a AdminAreaPage action hook, which would null it conditionally based on the role of the admin.