Freeze or lock lists so they can’t be removed or renamed

  • Resolved larry.bradley

    (@larrybradley)


    2 weeks, 2 days ago

    We use the newletter plugin an a different way from most. We do allow people who visit our website to get the popop and subscribe. However, as a company that runs a sailing school, we also want to send newsletters to our customers, the people in our database.

    I have a PHP program that lets us upload our customer database to the newsletter database, and assign these people to a specific list. And my program “knows” what that list number is, and also knows the list with subscribers (the list that new subscribers get assigned to automatically).

    What I would like to be able to do is flag a list as ‘locked’ so it can’t be renamed or deleted or have anything done with it. In my case, for example, I would lock the 1st three lists. This way, no-one could mess up the lists by accident. They would first have to unlock it, and then mess it up!

    The people using the newsletter plugin know what they should and should not do, but people make mistakes.

    If anyone knows how to do this (I am a programmer, so I can actually go in to the plugin and make changes), please let me know. If not, perhaps this could be a request for a feature. Others might find this useful as well, to prevent accidental messing up of lists.

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  • Plugin Support Michael Travan

    (@michael-travan)

    Hello @larrybradley,

    and thank you so much for your feedback and feature request. This might be interesting, I’ve passed it to our developers and we will discuss whether to add this to one of our next updates. I’ll keep you posted.

    Michael

    Thread Starter larry.bradley

    (@larrybradley)

    Thanks, Michael.

    For my own purposes, I have managed to change the source in lists.php and controls.php to do what I need (for now).

    In controls.php I defined new functions (e.g. textDisabled, based on text) that set the disabled attribute on the items I need.

    Then in lists.php, for each column, based on the list number (in my case an list number < 4) I use the disabled version of the control.

    It works like a charm.

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