what will be the easiest way to disable certain features for certain users?

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Digital Methods Initiative - Twitter Capture and Analysis Toolset

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what will be the easiest way to disable certain features for certain users? #338

Closed zhanglipku closed 5 years ago

zhanglipku commented 6 years ago

I want to disable the "export tweets" feature for some users currently on my TCAT, but don't want to jeopardize the integrity and stability of TCAT, how should I do that? Or is it something the developers would consider?

dentoir commented 5 years ago

A quite delayed reply, but fine-grained ACLs (which exists as a feature request) would never tackle the resource issue, because high load on the database can be caused by a wide variety of selection / export / analysis etc. queries. TCAT has a traffic light feature, which can be enabled in config.php and allows the admin to set a maximum number of simultaneous analytical operations.