Auto Upgrades & system-wide messages

[outreachadmin]

2 Questions (along with some explanation):

* Is there a way to disable Auto Upgrades? I'd rather see a message to do the upgrade manually.

* Is there a way to limit who sees error/new update messages (like failed auto upgrade errors or "new version" messages)?

The first AutoUpgrade that attempted to run after this upgrade failed & put up a red banner on ALL users screens.
In addition to this red banner, this morning ALL users had a second yellow banner mentioning a new version & clicking on this banner links them to the download page for the new version.

This really is not an ideal practice for our setup.
Limited/restricted employees should never be given links to download install files. They shouldn't see a message at all as this requirement has nothing to do with their role within the company.

Not only is this less than ideal to have all users seeing these messages, when the 2 messages are displayed together, it completely covers the menu headers & our employees cannot see or click on the navigation links (Attendance, Employee, MyAccount, etc...).

Thanks!

[shaunw]

Critical errors such as these are displayed to all employees so the message can get out sooner rather than later, especially in cases where administrators or IT staff may rarely or never login to TimeTrex themselves.

Auto upgrades can be disabled, but if they are failing I suspect there may be deeper problems with your TimeTrex setup that you should consider looking into, such issues could be causing you other problems as well.

In the mean time you can disable auto-upgrades by entering the following line under the [other] section of your timetrex.ini.php file:

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[other]
disable_auto_upgrade = TRUE