Perspective Power Chart - Disable tag path edit on Pen Control Edit

[Yfactor]

Hi there,

Is there any way we can disable tag path edit for the end users on Pen Control Edit (Perspective Power Chart)?
If we have an option to hide the tag path would be great as well.

Thank you

[drojas]

I've been asking for the same thing.

Power Chart disallow editing of tag path

On a gateway with multiple tag providers (especially remote tag providers), I feel that the Power Chart should have the option to enable/disable editing of the tag path (while still leaving editing of other things like axis, color, name…etc. Having access to the tag path could prove a security risk if someone is clever enough to modify it with a valid database name, remote gateway name, tag provider name, and tag name. They could end up viewing data from a completely different tag provider.

[pascal.fragnoud]

Me too… For the exact same reason.
Contacted support about this a few months ago, but no solution could be found, except for hiding every configuration panel, which is not ideal.

[lrose]

Currently the best you can get is to hide it via CSS.

Perspective PowerChart hide "Data" section on Pen settings

Good point, I did not think about this. After inspecting the DOM, there is a specific id for the input field to the Tag Path section named ia_powerChartComponent__settings__addEditPen__dataSource. I can implement a style rule for this id and set display: none, and have the section be “hidden”… However, a client could easily remove or modify this style rule and gain access to this field. This is not ideal. The ideal situation would be to have the perspective component driving the DOM not inclu…

[pascal.fragnoud]

Thanks, that’s a first step.