How to enable feature flags? (ALLOW_PUBLIC_ACCOUNT_CREATION)

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1

Hi there,

I am trying to disable public account creation. I have found plenty of references to setting the feature flag “‘ALLOW_PUBLIC_ACCOUNT_CREATION’”

https://docs.openedx.org/projects/edx-platform/en/latest/references/featuretoggles.html#featuretoggle-FEATURES[‘ALLOW_PUBLIC_ACCOUNT_CREATION’]

I am at a loss how to set this. I think its can be put in config.yml for tutor but I am not sure of the syntax. I see references to writing a snippet of python code to change this setting but that seems really ott for just setting a feature flag and not sure if this mean I will need to run this script everyt time the docker container is recreated.

I have found this:

https://docs.openedx.org/en/latest/site_ops/how-tos/add-waffle-flag-for-user.html

But there is no DJANGO-WAFFLE > Flags option under “Admin”

So the basic question is how to set feature flags in Openedx installed with tutor?

Thanks

2

Hi @mxc

Follow this documentation: Creating a Tutor plugin — Tutor documentation

Here are the same things explained.

3

Create a python plugin like this and name it anything you like, eg RestrictRegistrations.py
Then you can enable it with tutor plugins enable RestrictRegistrations

from tutor import hooks

hooks.Filters.ENV_PATCHES.add_item(
    (
        "openedx-lms-common-settings",
        "FEATURES['ALLOW_PUBLIC_ACCOUNT_CREATION'] = False"
    )
)
4

Thanks for the link. Makes sense now. I have a question. I want to disable the sign up link on the lms and cms so I did this:

from tutor import hooks

hooks.Filters.ENV_PATCHES.add_item(
    (
        "openedx-lms-common-settings",
        "FEATURES['ALLOW_PUBLIC_ACCOUNT_CREATION'] = False"
    )
)

hooks.Filters.ENV_PATCHES.add_item(
    (
        "openedx-cms-common-settings",
        "FEATURES['ALLOW_PUBLIC_ACCOUNT_CREATION'] = False"
    )
)

But the link on the cms (studio.domain.com) still allows account creation.

5

I’m not sure how to completely remove the sign-up link on the homepage, but with the patch I gave you (at least for me) it does not let you actually proceed with registering, if you fill in all the details and then try register nothing will happen.

6

Sorry for the delayed feedback. I managed to get rid of the link on the cms with a combinbation of the following: (My memory is a bit hazy now so I may get some details wrong. I am posting this in case it helps others.)

vi .local/share/tutor-plugins/disable-pubic-account-creation.py

from tutor import hooks

hooks.Filters.ENV_PATCHES.add_item(
    (
        "openedx-lms-common-settings",
        "FEATURES['ALLOW_PUBLIC_ACCOUNT_CREATION'] = False"
    )
)

hooks.Filters.ENV_PATCHES.add_item(
    (
        "openedx-cms-common-settings",
        "ALLOW_PUBLIC_ACCOUNT_CREATION = False"
    )
)

hooks.Filters.ENV_PATCHES.add_item(
    (
        "openedx-cms-common-settings",
        "FEATURES['ALLOW_PUBLIC_ACCOUNT_CREATION'] = False"
    )
)

# Hide Login Link from Authn MFE
hooks.Filters.ENV_PATCHES.add_item(
    (
        "openedx-lms-production-settings",
        """MFE_CONFIG["SHOW_REGISTRATION_LINKS"] = False"""
    ),
)

vi /home/jbadmin/.local/share/tutor/env/apps/openedx/settings/cms/production.py

ALLOW_PUBLIC_ACCOUNT_CREATION = False
FEATURES['ALLOW_PUBLIC_ACCOUNT_CREATION'] = False

HTH

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