[QUESTION] Is there a way to disable settings menu as a whole in dashboard?

[scribblepad]

Question

There are appConfig boolean values like disableConfiguration which disables user from changing config. Wondering if there is a way to disable settings menu as a whole in dashboard UI. Tried hideSettings in appConfig and that doesn't work either.

Basically this would avoid changing things in UI. I wanted to keep things strictly changeable via conf.yml file.

Thanks.

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[scribblepad]

Any insights on this would be helpful.

[Lissy93]

Hey @scribblepad - the best way to properly achieve this would be to make the conf.yml read-only. In Docker, that can be done with the readonly option. This would prevent any changes being able to be written.

Use that alongside appConfig.disableConfiguration: true, and the user won't be able to access any settings, beyond local only options (language and theme)

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[GyHUN95]

We should reopen this, beacause it can not be disabled from code neither, unfortunately.

[Lissy93]

Should work if you set disableConfiguration: true under appConfig

[maks2199]

Hi everyone! @Lissy93, I really like this project, looks very nice and inspiring! I agree with the author of Issue, it would be helpfull to be able to disable any configuration at all, including theme, color, layout, and view settings.

disableConfiguration: true allows to hide the bar and prevents from changing the sections and items, but not prevents from changing layout, view type, e.t.c.

[Trungtin1011]

Hi @Lissy93,

I agree with @maks2199 about the Settings panel. Even when I set appConfig.disableConfiguration: true and appConfig.hideComponents.hideSettings: true, other users can still go to the dashboard, toggle open the Settings Menu and edit Themes, Layout, Item Size. They can even view the content of config file in Config > Update Configuration > Click conf.yml in Using config from /conf.yml

We need an option to completely disable the toggling of Setting Menu, so that user opening the page can only click into the items