Hi guys

I'd like to share with you what i did to allow users to copy projects for non-admin user.

I started with what Christian wrote a while ago on this issue #13373

So i modified 3 files :

In app/view/projects/show.html.erb
line 12 :

@<% if @project.is_public? %>
<%= link_to(l(:button_copy), { :controller => 'projects', :action => 'copy', :id => @project }, :class => 'icon icon-copy') %>
<% end %>@

This add a copy button in each project near "add subproject, close project".
!copy.PNG!
This means that in every project i can copy it into another project.
But i can't really do that because i don't have the right to copy a project if i'm not admin.

So in app/controllers/projects_controller.rb
somewhere between line 20 and 30 i removed :copy from a before_filter like in the issue #13373

@before_filter :authorize_global, :only => [:new, :create ]
before_filter :require_admin, :only => [ :archive, :unarchive, :destroy ]@

Now, the problem is that everyone can copy every project even if non member, because i just have to write :
http: //localhost/redmine/projects/PROJECT_ID/ copy
to copy a project.

This is not what i want.

So i decided to allow the non-user copy of project only for public project.

Still in app/controllers/projects_controller.rb
line 115, i added :

@if @source_project.is_public && !User.current.admin?
render_404
end@

So in the end, i can copy a project if :

• The project is public and i'm not admin
• or i'm admin

if i'm not admin and the project is not public and i try to copy it using http: //localhost/redmine/projects/PROJECT_ID/ copy, i will go to the 404 page error.

Hope this will help you

With this you can have a templating of project by having some projects that are public and by having a copy button in your public project (no need to add /copy at the end of the url).

If you have anything you would like to add or say, don't hesitate. Maybe i missed some authorization but it actually is working in my prod environnement.