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

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.

Great! This will be helpful for times that I have a customer needing to restrict Create but still allow users to Edit.

Hello John Harr,

This functionality working fine for our one of existing customer.

-BPATEL