How can we block users from creating records with the Accounts module? 

John,

In Role Management, you will want to create a new Role and set the "Edit" column to "None" for Accounts.  You can refer to this document for assistance.

Hope this helps,

Lori Arce

John,

In Role Management, you will want to create a new Role and set the "Edit" column to "None" for Accounts.  You can refer to this document for assistance.

Hope this helps,

Lori Arce

hi ,

If we try to restrict create using Role Management so it will restrict both edit as well as create. So better is that we should restrict account creation throught override the CurrentUserAPI.

-BPATEL

Hello John Harr,

I hope you doing good.

I have override the CurrentUserApi.Follow the below steps.

1. /<projectname>/clients/base/api/CurrentUserApi.php To/<projectname>/custom/clients/base/api/CustomCurrentUserApi.php

2. Add below code in the file CustomCurrentUserApi.php

<?php  
if(!defined('sugarEntry') || !sugarEntry) die('Not A Valid Entry Point');  
require_once("clients/base/api/CurrentUserApi.php");  
class CustomCurrentUserApi extends CurrentUserApi  
{  
   public function registerApiRest()  
   {  
       return parent::registerApiRest();  
   }  
    public function retrieveCurrentUser($api, $args)  
   {  
       $result = parent::retrieveCurrentUser($api, $args);  
              $result['current_user']['acl']['Accounts']['create'] = 'no';     
       return $result;  
   }  
}

3. Do Quick Repair and Rebuild.

Hope it will help you.

Let me know if you need more help.

-BPATEL

Thank you!  I figured it was something simple I was overlooking.