Hide the administrator's activity?

derekdon

Seems like the actions of the administrator are viewable to members on the activity page. Can this be changed? Perhaps by modifying the role settings?

Mark

Why would you want them hidden?

Karawynn

Well, for my part, I don't see why all the users need to know whenever an admin changes someone's permissions or member status ...

derekdon

I agree. Admin activity should not be viewable by members or guests.

iamkeir

+1

jamie_c

just delete the entries on the activity page,

Bac213

@jamie_c That will fail, you'll forwlget or something.
@Mark Yes, I'm with these guys, you kinda need one....

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@Mark for most forums (ie. not coding/geek centric ones), it's simply not interesting to the usual forum user what is going on behind the scenes. They just want to discuss things and see what their friends are doing.

I think it should be an option to hide certain user groups from that view - plugin?

jamie_c

"@jamie_c That will fail, you'll forwlget or something."

it works fine, just delete the entries and they arnt there to be viewed by anyone, simple enough really, as for "you'll forwlget or something" I have no idea what thats suposed to mean

I can see the point of having an option to prevent groups from viewing the admins activity, but I still dont see it as an issue really, when its easy enough to delete any entries on the activity page,
sign in as admin, click on activity and delete any entries, job done

RJRiley

i'm running into this issue now. I don't want anyone member or guest to be able to view activity. Is there a way to block it, other then deleting?

lukoie

@RJRiley: ForceGuestSignIn?

RJRiley

@lukoie thanks, that is what i ended up using

Rainulf

I agree with this guys. Actions of the administrator should be hidden or at least give an option for it.

oliverraduner

Probably a stupid comment, but you guys know, that you can delete any activity manually?

lukoie

of course we do, but its a lot of stupid work. instead you can just optionally restrict that info to show up in the activity stream, if it would be possible!

Tim

Sounds like a pretty cool plugin idea, and quite straightforward too!

phreak

+1

GVR1138

I agree, I would like to use the free hosted version to manage conversations among a small group of people and do not want the activity to be open for others to see. It's not just admin comments, it's stuff that people post as well.

There should be an option that allows one to just turn that feature off.

DavyB

"@jamie_c That will fail, you'll forwlget or something."

it works fine, just delete the entries and they arnt there to be viewed by anyone, simple enough really, as for "you'll forwlget or something" I have no idea what thats suposed to mean

I can see the point of having an option to prevent groups from viewing the admins activity, but I still dont see it as an issue really, when its easy enough to delete any entries on the activity page,
sign in as admin, click on activity and delete any entries, job done

PEDANT - its clearly a typo for "FORGET"

DavyB

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bobtheman

+1

mostmodernist

I notice that there is in fact an option in user perms to allow/disallow viewing of site activity. However, it doesn't seem to "work".

The reason why this is strange, at least to me, is that if somebody clicks on a post author, they are taken to a site activity page first, and then have to click the tab to see that user's posts. The relevant tab is not the automatic one.

chuckD

You can hide the activity for user groups but hiding just the admin activity for everyone would be something useful. It's better than deleting it.

te200

We were looking for a way to take out this Activity tab alltogether. We did so with a manual tweak. Not ideal, but it works. For those interested, go to applications/dashboard/views, and edit "default.master.php". Here you see a line that reads:

$this->Menu->AddLink('Activity', T('Activity'), '/activity');

Comment this line (that is, put // before it):

// $this->Menu->AddLink('Activity', T('Activity'), '/activity');

Now the Activity tab will not show at all.

RichGriese

te200's comment helps comment out the activity tab on the site menu. I want to eliminate it when you navigate to a user page. When you go to a users page, you see notification, activity, discussions, comments tabs.... and when you land on someone other than your user page it defaults to activity tab. I want to hide that tab, and have the lading for that view on discussions.

In effect, I want to eliminate the whole WALL concept from Vanilla and have it only show discussons and comments. How do I do this? I tried last year once for three days of hacking and found it virtually impossible.

Please don't go down the "why do you want that?" road. Just understand I do. I don't want to argue about it, I just want instructions on how to do it.

Cheers!

peregrine

@RichGriese said: te200's comment helps comment out the activity tab on the site menu. I want to eliminate it when you navigate to a user page. When you go to a users page, you see notification, activity, discussions, comments tabs.... and when you land on someone other than your user page it defaults to activity tab. I want to hide that tab, and have the lading for that view on discussions.

In effect, I want to eliminate the whole WALL concept from Vanilla and have it only show discussons and comments. How do I do this? I tried last year once for three days of hacking and found it virtually impossible.

Please don't go down the "why do you want that?" road. Just understand I do. I don't want to argue about it, I just want instructions on how to do it.

Cheers!

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/166058/#Comment_166058

and change the permissions for viewing activity in dashboard.

Esger

Another way to hide the Activity menu item is by CSS:

#Menu .Activity{ display: none; }

This is not ideal either, but it works.