Hiding some Entries from specific Users

[fjahn]

Unfortunately, I cannot re-mark the answer, but I did find a way to do this, see my answer below.

Is there any way to forcefully hide entries from users? I would like to show users only the entries they have created themself. I have successfully set up a filter that allows me to do just that, but users could still remove the filter and see entries created by other users.

[edalzell]

you can set permissions to allow users to only be able to access their own entries, but not hide from the listing.

[fjahn]

That's unfortunate, but thank you for the response! I already thought that this would be the case but wanted to make sure before giving up. Afterwards, I also found this ancient feature request that describes the same problem.

Just to clarify: There are permissions for blocking users from editing other users' entries, but there is no way to completely hide them. In other words: There are separate permissions for edit posts entries and edit other authors posts entries, but there is only view posts entries, not view other authors posts entries.

I could only come up with one solution for my problem: Override the default CollectionStore with an implementation that only returns entries that the user is able to edit, but this is very bad for all sorts of reasons.

[velasco]

you can set permissions to allow users to only be able to access their own entries, but not hide from the listing.

Hi @edalzell. Do you mean you can restrict users from seeing other users entries or can you just prevent them from changing other users entries?

[fjahn]

While planning to submit a PR to implement this, I did eventually find a way to do this using Laravel's service container!

You can extend Statamics EntriesController and override the indexQuery method. In there, you can add your own queries:

use Statamic\Facades\User;
use Statamic\Http\Controllers\CP\Collections\EntriesController;

class FilteringAuthorEntriesController extends EntriesController
{
    protected function indexQuery($collection)
    {
        return parent::indexQuery($collection)
            ->where('author', User::current()->id());
    }
}

After that, you need to replace the original EntriesController with your own FilteringAuthorEntriesController in a service provider:

public function register()
{
    $this->app->bind(EntriesController::class, FilteringAuthorEntriesController::class);
}

[edalzell]

very nice!