[Openinteract-help] Per-field permissions in SPOPS?

[Vsevolod (S. I. <si...@cs...>]

Hi,

Has anyone tried to implement in SPOPS giving different users different 
write permissions on different fields. Say, if we have a table of 
employees, a) the owner of each record is allowed to update his phone 
number, b) people in HR are allowed to update most other fields, but c) 
no one is allowed to update the employee number as it's autogenerated.

I have not found anything like this in the code or in the mailing list 
archives. If this functionality is absent in SPOPS, but would be desired 
and easy to implement, I would not mind adding it.

The reason this came up is that in my web apps I try to be generic in 
how I translate HTML form fields into objects. For a given table, the 
form fields describing objects in this table have the same name as table 
column names. However, depending on who is logged in, not all fields 
should always be saved. This contradicts somewhat the idea of 
schema-independent persistent code, but I think it's necessary in the 
real world.

Thanks,
Simon
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