Hiding views is a kind of useless or degraded to just comfort, if a user can see all values in the logbook.
I think this feature, as well as hiding map and history, is really necessary.
I would like to hide the menu items History and Logbook as well since they are not being used by the users.
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2022 and this is still not possible?
Is this by design? a Bug or an oversight?
What business do regular users have in seeing the logbook / history …
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I feel like this has been overlooked for sometime. And needs to be addressed. For instance, I want to give my kids access to the HA app or webpage, what business do they have being able to look at all of the history of all of the device trackers? And using the exclude feature in yaml only excludes items from the default view they can still search for any device in the entity filter and pull up the complete history.
I too would like to be able to hide these on the sidebar.
It’s actually worse
See this
And absolutely no response from anybody, I suppose security is not important at HASS.
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Is there any update on this? I don’t need the grandparents who visit to watch the kids having a GPS map of all of our locations just so we can keep the heat on during the day when they’re here…
This is a major oversight.
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I hate to bump an old thread, and I really thought a lot about replying before I just did…
This is, for me, the biggest shortcoming of HA. I love the platform, love working with it, playing with it. But I cannot give it out to other family members to use it. Not only does it give out too much private info, like gps coordinates, but for example I use it to control heating, or measure power consumption on the freezer/fridges. So no way I’m letting kids use this, while I would not mind them playing with philips hue light colors.
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Let’s give this a bump up
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Does bumping actually work? Bumpety Bump!!
This is also an issue with me, my Partner is a technology lover, but at the same time a destructive force with something like this… I use the media module but not for main media, so I want to turn that off for users, History, Log book all need gone for users, and why can’t I “Turn Off” the default dashboard for a user, I have a whole custom dashboard just for users… but on the default one I can uncheck the users all I like in visibility but it still shows when you log in as said user.
Essentially I was expecting to be able to go into the user settings and have the option to turn off any ot these items for a non admin user!
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also wanting this functionality.
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This needs to be figured out. I want to give access to a babysitter for after school and noticed that yes I can limit their access to a certain Lovelace card but they still have access to everything(logbooks, maps, history, etc…). This seems like a severe oversight in such a use case. I am a bit shocked knowing how technical this platform is. If there is a workaround please let me know:)
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i want also to hide a few sidebars as all those in formations are dangerous/useless for other users
For anyone watching this thread This is What the Heck Month where the devs pay special attention to issues, feature requests etc. Please go to the What the Heck Post i just made and upvote it.
TL;DR: For all of October, we are opening up to report any issue, suggestion, or annoyance you have with Home Assistant [WTH] The month of 'What the Heck?!' 2022 - Home Assistant
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There’s apparently another WTH that already has a lot of traction so go vote for that one as well.
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Same here. It should absolutely be possible to control the per-user visibility of items other than dashboard elements - Energy, Map, Logbook, etc. What do we have to do to get focus on this?
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Don’t hold your breath, its clearly a much higher priority to dedicate an entire year to voice functionality than fix things like access control.
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Not sure when it was added; but click and hold the dashboard icon and you can hide elements.
This is something the actual user has to do, to hide it from himself. It doesn’t prevent the user to access these pages.
I’ve been waiting patiently for this as well, by now we can set some dashboards to be admin only though:
require_admin: true
Also works for dashboards that are ‘UI Controlled’ instead of ‘YAML file’ under Settings > Dashboards
Unfortunately the ones I’m aiming to shield from normal users, being Energy, Logbook, History & Map are not there.
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