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Hide the administrator's activity?

derekdonderekdon
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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?

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  • MarkMark
    Posts: 4,883
    Why would you want them hidden?
  • KarawynnKarawynn
    Posts: 21
    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 ...
  • derekdonderekdon
    Posts: 80
    I agree. Admin activity should not be viewable by members or guests.
  • iamkeiriamkeir
    Posts: 100
    +1
  • jamie_cjamie_c
    Posts: 8
    just delete the entries on the activity page,
  • Bac213Bac213
    Posts: 42
    @jamie_c That will fail, you'll forwlget or something.
    @Mark Yes, I'm with these guys, you kinda need one....
  • [-Stash-][-Stash-]
    Posts: 2,610
    @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_cjamie_c
    Posts: 8
    "@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
  • RJRileyRJRiley
    Posts: 20
    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?
  • lukoielukoie
    Posts: 135
    @RJRiley: ForceGuestSignIn?
  • RJRileyRJRiley
    Posts: 20
    @lukoie thanks, that is what i ended up using
  • RainulfRainulf
    Posts: 58
    I agree with this guys. Actions of the administrator should be hidden or at least give an option for it.
  • oliverraduneroliverraduner
    Posts: 313
    Probably a stupid comment, but you guys know, that you can delete any activity manually?
  • lukoielukoie
    Posts: 135
    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!
  • TimTim
    Posts: 1,573
    Sounds like a pretty cool plugin idea, and quite straightforward too!

    Vanilla Forums Senior Developer [GitHub, Twitter, About.me]

  • phreakphreak
    Posts: 148
    +1
  • GVR1138GVR1138
    Posts: 1
    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.
  • DavyBDavyB
    Posts: 106
    jamie_c said:

    "@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"
  • DavyBDavyB
    Posts: 106
    NB: those with a -1.
    Please learn how voting works - click on the up/down arrows on the brown widget on the left, then you dont need to make a comment unless you have something to add. clicking again on the widget will remove your vote.
  • bobthemanbobtheman
    Posts: 430
    +1
  • mostmodernistmostmodernist
    Posts: 10
    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.
  • chuckDchuckD
    Posts: 132
    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.
  • te200te200
    Posts: 1
    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.
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