Ability to exclude the SysOp from last callers list

[davestephens]

It would be good if it was possible to exclude the sysop from the last callers list, possibly via a config option. I call my board a lot, so the last callers just ends up being a list of my calls which reduces its worth somewhat...

[NuSkooler]

I think a few people would like this -- my only concern is I (personally) would only like it about 50% of the time. I'm pondering a way to optionally do this, for example logging in with !NuSkooler (note the '!' prefix) or such.

What do you think?

[davestephens]

Yeah, that's a good point - I've actually had users comment that the sysop (me) never logged in, when in actual fact I had been, just invisibly.

I'm scraping the memory banks here, was it Wildcat that had a similar feature with the exclamation mark? I think it's a nice way to do it, but I'd personally want it so that it was limited to use by the sysop/admins only.

[NuSkooler]

@davestephens It could be tied to an ACS, defaulting to GM[sysops]

[NuSkooler]

Resolved @ 64ded25

I started going down the path described above for a "silent" login. It's mostly working, but needs some additional areas. I've moved that code aside for now until I have some other more important things completed. In any case, you can now set an option in your last_callers config blocks to hide ops:

config: {
  hideSysOpLogin: true
}

I'll create a issue for the silent/stealth option.

[NuSkooler]

Reopening: The implementation I created needs some work. Currently only height items are retrieved from the DB then +ops are simply filtered out, which leaves the list shorter than it should be.

[NuSkooler]

Should be fully resolved now with 470897e:

Setting hideSysOpLogin to true like the comment above will filter out +ops but still show the full list if the filtered list ends up being too small to fill the view. You can fully disable +ops from ever showing by setting the value to 'always':

config: {
  hideSysOpLogin: always
}

[davestephens]

I think I'm being stupid - where does this config block go exactly?

[NuSkooler]

Sorry, I should clarify more: Any menu entry can have a config block with module defined options. This would go in your last callers menu.hjson declarions, e.g.:

fullLoginSequenceLastCallers: {
            desc: Last Callers
            module: last_callers
            art: LASTCALL
            options: { pause: true }
            next: fullLoginSequenceWhosOnline
            config: {
                hideSysOpLogin: true
            }
        }