Require REPORT_VIEW permission to access ticket stats page, and eliminate TSTATS_VIEW permission

[Ryan J Ollos]

I'm still thinking about this, but as noted in ​comment:7:ticket:3594, I'm not sure it makes sense to have another permission for presenting in another way information that is already available given other permissions.

The number of opened and closed tickets in a specified time period can normally be viewed from the timeline. That is, this is really just a graphical presentation of the timeline filter Tickets opened and closed, as well as showing the number of open tickets on a certain date, which can be viewed if one has REPORT_VIEW permission. Well, the latter is not exactly equivalent because historical information is shown on the graph, but it is close.

There are a couple of options here:

• Make the required permission configurable, with the default being TSTAT_VIEW.
• Make the required permission configurable, with the default being REPORT_VIEW and/or TSTAT_VIEW.
• Drop the TSTAT_VIEW permission, and require TIMELINE_VIEW and/or REPORT_VIEW permissions.

I also wonder if we might remove the mainnav link and add metanav links to the timeline and/or report pages.

[Ryan J Ollos]

(In [13100]) Fixes #8114: Removed TSTATS_VIEW permission. REPORT_VIEW is now required for the "Ticket Stats" tab to be present and to view the graph.

[Ryan J Ollos]

Replying to rjollos:

I also wonder if we might remove the mainnav link and add metanav links to the timeline and/or report pages.

I'm still considering this, but it would be handled in another ticket.

[Ryan J Ollos]

TICKET_VIEW, rather than REPORT_VIEW, is required after [14703].