What is the best way to restrict button access on doctype like Issue

aakvatech · December 2, 2018, 6:29pm

We would like to restrict access to “Close” button and while there are 2 options

Custom script
Python hook

What is the recommended approach to restrict access to button access on doctype e.g. “Close” on Issue

shraddha · December 4, 2018, 7:14am

Hi
You can restrict access via python hook.

lasalesi · December 4, 2018, 8:34am

Hi @shraddha,
could you please elaborate? We have a similar use case, where we would like to restrict access to “Cancel” on sales order based on the current date: if posting date == curdate → allow cancel, otherwise, don’t… Any code snippets?

shraddha · December 4, 2018, 1:02pm

Hi @lasalesi,
Just refer following links

https://frappe.io/docs/user/en/guides/basics/hooks

Example -

erpnext hooks.py

github.com

frappe/erpnext/blob/develop/erpnext/hooks.py#L204


      
          	{
          		"title": "Purchase Orders",
          		"route": "/purchase-orders",
          		"reference_doctype": "Purchase Order",
          		"role": "Supplier",
          	},
          	{
          		"title": "Purchase Invoices",
          		"route": "/purchase-invoices",
          		"reference_doctype": "Purchase Invoice",
          		"role": "Supplier",
          	},
          	{
          		"title": "Quotations",
          		"route": "/quotations",
          		"reference_doctype": "Quotation",
          		"role": "Customer",
          	},
          	{
          		"title": "Orders",
          		"route": "/orders",

validate method in employee

https://github.com/frappe/erpnext/blob/develop/erpnext/hr/doctype/employee/employee.py#L214-L219