The literal definition of the viewalldetails capability is "This allows a user to see all the information about another user that is on their profile page."
(see: https://docs.moodle.org/35/en/Capabilities/moodle/user:viewalldetails)
but at v3.3, v3.4, v3.5 (among other versions) when a user with this capability don't see the phone number for example.
Why? It's a bug? or this permission doesn't work for this?
Thanks!!!
Sorry,
in the fourth line I wanted to say:
"A user with this capability never see the phone number for example".
Hello Sergio,
I tried on https://demo.moodle.net (using 3.5.1) and found the same as you - that certain profile fields such as phone are not displayed on the profile page. I reported the problem as MDL-63296 for developers to investigate.
Ohhh thanks Helen!
I have contributed in the tracker the solution that we have implemented to solve this issue. I do not know if it will be the most appropriate, they will tell us about it.
Again thanks for open MDL-63296
Wow, thanks Sergio for providing a patch for the issue - very cool!
Hopefully it will be peer reviewed before too long, though in the meantime your patch is there for anyone to try.
Hi Helen and Sergio
I believe users see the fields which are chosen in the "Show user identity" setting under admin/settings.php?section=userpolicies, or am I mistaken?
I noticed "Address" was not there and neither under "Hide user fields" so I put up a patch fixing that.
Concerning your patch, if I understand i correctly, you alter the settings as if the given showuseridentity fields were chosen, and so they appear, right?
| $identityfields = array('idnumber' => 0, 'phone1' => 1, 'phone2' => 2, 'department' => 3, 'institution' => 4); |
Best,
Luca
Hi Luca,
Thanks for your help with MDL-63296.
The 'Show user identity' setting controls which fields are displayed when selecting or searching for users, and when displaying lists of users, such as in reports. (See the documentation User policies for a list of locations.)
MDL-63296 is about fields not being shown on a user's full profile page. An admin should be able to view everything, regardless of capability settings. Also, I think a user should be able to view all the information they they have added, otherwise it is confusing for them.