How to hide configuration tabs of a report with the "print to pdf" action remaining active?

Question

I want a category of users can access some reports, view the results on the screen and print them to PDF. And to prevent any modification of the criteria, I want all the report configuration tabs to be hidden.

This is done by this users role having the permission “access CiviReport” enabled but the “access Report Criteria” one disabled.

But when disabling the “access Report Criteria” permission, the "Print report" and "Print to PDF" actions become inactive.

Is there any way to get what I want ?

Thanks for help.

Answer 1

This seems to be a bug in CiviCRM. Below patch will allow anonymous user to Print report or Print PDF.

diff --git a/CRM/Report/Form.php b/CRM/Report/Form.php
index 75a614c836..9acd75c584 100644
--- a/CRM/Report/Form.php
+++ b/CRM/Report/Form.php
@@ -2580,7 +2571,7 @@ WHERE cg.extends IN ('" . implode("','", $this->_customGroupExtends) . "') AND
     if (empty($this->_params) &&
       $this->_force
     ) {
-      $this->setParams($this->_formValues);
+      $this->setParams($this->_submitValues);
     }

     // hack to fix params when submitted from dashboard, CRM-8532
@@ -2588,7 +2579,7 @@ WHERE cg.extends IN ('" . implode("','", $this->_customGroupExtends) . "') AND
     // in dashboard mode for report
     //@todo - this could be done in the dashboard no we have a setter
     if (empty($this->_params['fields']) && !$this->_noFields) {
-      $this->setParams($this->_formValues);
+      $this->setParams($this->_submitValues);
     }

Not sure what is the difference between formvalues and submitvalues even though params are considered from submit values for processing.

HTH

Pradeep