How to modify the visibility of a related list UI action?

[Linda6]

Dear all,

how/where do I get to modify the visibility of a related list UI action? I did not find it anywhere.

Namely I would like to restrict users to add/remove groups of other users, if they are not the manager of that given group and at the same time they must have the 'itil' or 'itil_admin' role. 

I tried to do this through ACLs, but it does not function as expected.

So thought of a workaround of hiding the New/Edit related list UI actions if the signed in user does not fulfill the above mentioned criteria.

I mean these UI actions:

[Abhijit4]

Right click on related list column as shown below :

Right click->confgire->List Control

You can check omit new/edit button on form

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[Linda6]

Thank you @Abhijit4 ,

however I need to omit it only for those users, that do NOT have the 'itil' or 'itil_admin' role && are not the manager of the given group that is being added or removed from that user..

My code apparently doesn't work, can you please help me out a bit with it...?

Omit edit and omit new conditions shall be the same:

var answer = false; //restrict access by default
if(gs.hasRoleFromList('itil','itil_admin') && current.group.manager.sys_id == gs.getUserID()) {
	answer = true; //allow access if user has 'itil' or 'itil_admin' role and is the group manager
}

[Abhijit4]

Method 'hasRoleFromList' works for g_user object. 

Instead please try below,

var answer = false; //restrict access by default
if((gs.hasRoleExactly('itil') || gs.hasRoleExactly('itil_admin')) && current.group.manager.sys_id == gs.getUserID()) {
	answer = true; //allow access if user has 'itil' or 'itil_admin' role and is the group manager
}

if you want to check is user either has role or he is manager then you might need to add OR operator in between as below:

var answer = false; //restrict access by default
if(gs.hasRoleExactly('itil') || gs.hasRoleExactly('itil_admin') || current.group.manager.sys_id == gs.getUserID()) {
	answer = true; //allow access if user has 'itil' or 'itil_admin' role and is the group manager
}

Please mark answer as Correct or Helpful based on impact.

[Linda6]

Hi @Abhijit4 

it blocks me out, even if me as an admin cannot see those New/Edit UI actions...

Any suggestions how to do this some other way? Is there any other way than omitting or using ACLs (those did not work in my case)