Hide specific hosting accounts from other administrators in the admin panel

[trappedatuf]

I have a couple of hosting accounts that I don't want certain administrators to see. I want it to be effectively hidden like it wasn't there to some of my administrators. How would I do this?

[chickendippers]

That's not possible.

[trappedatuf]

I thought that was going to be the unfortunate answer :-(

 

How hard would this be to incorporate? Let me know guys, would anyone else like a feature like this?

[redrat]

Not at the moment but I can imagine circumstances whereby that might be useful so I'd still like the answer if one emerges.

[chickendippers]

Well I'm sure if you were willing to commission a custom development it would be possible, but with WHMCS as of 3.7.1 that is not something that can be achieved.

[trappedatuf]

Matt is awesome and he has helped develop some custom things for me. His work is great, fast and economical! I would like this feature but I'm not sure if I need it bad enough to warrant an extra expense for it. Let me know guys if anyone else could benefit from something like this and would like to see this feature and then we can decide if it's something worth paying for to have developed

[bear]

I have a couple of hosting accounts that I don't want certain administrators to see.

 

I'd be interested to know why...if you can share, that is.

[brianoz]

This isn't going to be easy, and I doubt Matt would take it on (although, I'm not an authorized agent for him, so who knows!). It requires a security system of some sort to be implemented. At a an absolute minimum, users would have to have access levels, and administrators would have to have permission levels. Not saying it's impossible but it's tricky. A more complete solution would put users in groups, and administrators would belong to those groups.

 

As bear says, why do you want this? There may be another way to solve your issue.

[redrat]

Just go to Configuration/Administrator roles and set up the access permissions you need for all of your various Administrator roles. Create as many as you like including Groups and select permissions according to your needs.

 

Actually just realised it is not possible as you wish to simply exclude specific accounts from view. The file to edit would be /admin/configadminroles.php but that is encrypted.

Edited October 5, 2008 by redrat

[trappedatuf]

Yeah, I thought this would be a little tough. If there was a way we could just mark a site as "hidden" then have an option if users can view "hidden" site details that would be a pretty simple work around, don't you think?

[redrat]

I do actually agree that this is a valuable feature. Mostly it would not be necessary but there certainly are circumstances when it would be and not because one has anything dodgy to hide; just hosted business or personal matters that you wish to remain exclusively private and for all the right reasons.

[handsonwebhosting]

I'm still not following why this would be a necessary feature. If it was a shady activity or dodgy as posted above, why not leave the account OUT of the billing system and collect funds in an alternate manner? I'd figure that if the account is in the system, the support agents and admins should be able to manage the account and assist the customer as needed. If it's personal, don't have it in the system I guess.

 

When all else fails I guess just make a customer with "XXX" for the name and address and then post it in the system that way? Don't know - sounds a little odd to me.