* Refactored AssetsTransformer
Casted all ids to int, escaped all text values,
* Added warranty_expires attribute to Asset model
$asset->warranty_expires contains a Carbon object with the warranty
expiration date. Returns null when either purchase_date or
warranty_months are not set.
* Ignoring php-cs cache files
* Restored asset tests expectations
Work in progress - tests still fail
* API controller refactoring, fixed HTTP status codes in responses
* Restored $request->get - debugging
* Added further checks in ApiAssetsCest::updateAssetWithPatch
* Toggles the disabled state of auto_increment_prefix
To insert a prefix you had to toggle the checkbox, save the settings and reload. With this script it is immediate. Fixes#1390
* Delete asset image: made checkbox more visible
Related to #3153
* Added personal-access-token component
* Created basic API testing configuration
* First version of /components endpoind cest
* On-the-fly bearer token generation
* Completed testing of PATCH and PUT methods
* Added /components/{id}/assets route with tests
* Updated route and dataTable in view
* Completed test assertion
* Added links to assets in ComponentsAssets view
* Linked Company in AssetView page
* Fixed purchase_cost format expectation in ApiComponentsCest
* Refactored api routes file
Sorted all prefixes in alphabetical order, removed duplicate routes. For every prefix I placed first Route::resource and then any additional route in a Route::group. Expanded arrays for readability and consistency. Removed useless calls as create and edit everywhere.
* Refactored and added one more test to ApiComponentsAssetsCest
* Marked one test as incomplete, 404 response should return json
* Fixed value expectation
* Refactored getToken()
* Added API debugging routes
* Added more information to ValidationException reporting
Now the payload contains the validation errors for each invalid
attribute.
* /apitests: refactored expectations in component assertions
* Created ApiAssetsCest
* /apitests: Cleanup in Exceptions/Handler
* Reverted change to use
* Marked two tests as incomplete, looking for solutions
* Toggles the disabled state of auto_increment_prefix
To insert a prefix you had to toggle the checkbox, save the settings and reload. With this script it is immediate. Fixes#1390
* Delete asset image: made checkbox more visible
Related to #3153
* Added personal-access-token component
* Created basic API testing configuration
* First version of /components endpoind cest
* On-the-fly bearer token generation
* Completed testing of PATCH and PUT methods
* Added /components/{id}/assets route with tests
* Updated route and dataTable in view
* Completed test assertion
* Added links to assets in ComponentsAssets view
* Linked Company in AssetView page
* Bugfixes based on functional tests
* Removed unused function
* Marked tests as incomplete
* Added check for existence in groups/edit.blade.php
* Better error handling of failed file uploads. Also improve formatting of modal dialog
* Readd app.js to the js build, fixes collapsing sidebar
* Update JS
* Fix font size. We need to explicitly set the font size for the table because everywhere else that comes from bootstrap-tables
* Toggles the disabled state of auto_increment_prefix
To insert a prefix you had to toggle the checkbox, save the settings and reload. With this script it is immediate. Fixes#1390
* Delete asset image: made checkbox more visible
Related to #3153
* Added personal-access-token component
* Created basic API testing configuration
* First version of /components endpoind cest
* On-the-fly bearer token generation
* Completed testing of PATCH and PUT methods
* Added /components/{id}/assets route with tests
* Updated route and dataTable in view
* Completed test assertion
* Added links to assets in ComponentsAssets view
* Linked Company in AssetView page
* Begin work on vueifying the importer
* Beginning work on migrating the importer to use a vue/components for future interactivity
Update JS
More importer work. Move to a vue based modal, begin handling of processing. Still need to port error messages.
More importer work. Move to a vue based modal, begin handling of processing. Still need to port error messages.
Update importer. Add error display. Fix modal, update vue-strap to vue2
More progress. Add select2 vue bits.
* Move to querying the db to find importer matches. It scales better on large datasets.
Fix select2 related issues. We were trying to initialize it twice, which led to the custom data being overwritten.
* Better error handling on uploads and deletion of files. Restore progressbar on upload.
* Add support for generic exception reporting if app.debug is enabled.
* Handle Http 500 errors better. Display errors if debug is enabled. Assorted cleanups.
* Fix codacy issues, remove unused methods.
* Only bind vue to the importer for now.
* Load vue for passport as well.
* Major code simplification of the importers.
Move towards using Model::fill and Model::update rather than reinventing
the wheel. This makes the updating/creating logic a lot clearer, and
allows for the deletion of a lot of code. Also allows for supporting of
more fields in the future really easily.
* Cleanup constructors and use setters instead.
* Set the LC_MONETARY locale, and use it to strip currency symbols in Helper::parseFloat()
* Move licenseseat creation/deletion logic into an event handler on the model rather than the controller.
* Move the logging of parsed values to array_smart_fetch rather than writing it out everywhere
* Move to storing dates as carbon rather than strings. Allows for the parsing of more arbitrary strings from the importer
* Add a license importer with support for checking out to users or assets.
* Make a directory for sample/mock import csvs and populate it
* Adjust how we store/retrieve dates to fix some issues the tests found.
* Importer fix: we were trimming the wrong part of the classname when creating a category. This led to categories not being recognized.
* Add a component importer. Uses same fields as consumable importer. Only trick: If an asset_tag is present, we checkout a component to that asset on import
Enable component importer. Also calculate the importer classname in a cleaner fashion.
* Fix comparisons. find can return an index of 0, which is falsy.
* Update composer phpcs
* Minor Fixes found while working.
ALlow user_id to be nullable in category model validation
Point to the correct route in accessoriespresenter datatable. Also add name() method
Add a translated category name
Fix typo in translation
* Add a method to the asset presenter to show deployed when asset is deployed. Fixes#3114
Some licenses, such as windows licenses, are machine specific. This
commit allows an extra field to be added to the license importer to
allow these licenses to be imported and attached directly to an asset
* Set user if asset is checked out to user. fixes email problems.
* Use sometimes validation to ignore this when no values are present.
* Move Actionlog details to a presenter and port the activity table to use it. Still need to port other parts of the application, but this consolidates a lot of logic.
* Attempt test fix
* Port users,licenses, and assets view to use the presenter to generate table values.
* Reformat all view files. Check for matching tags and rearrange to make everything line up.
* Fix regression on asset create where the log was no longer saved.
* Move slack integration to laravel5.3 style notifications, part 1.
* Fix consumable tab when active.
* Move the slack notifiable to the settings model. Move all slack notifications into logCheckout/logCheckin. Should think about refactoring this as an event at some point still. Move Asset checkin/checkout to use the general loggable trait rather than it's own solution.
* Fix a logic error where assets with a non deployable status would show checkin instead of no button at all.
* Fix an html formatting error that resulted in us not closing a form. This would cause the checkin page to try to submit a delete request (related to the modal form) rather than the desired checkin request. Also fix formatting in this file.
* Fix maintenances create button, and post to the proper route in maintences edit
* Fix consumable tab when active.
* Fix an html formatting error that resulted in us not closing a form. This would cause the checkin page to try to submit a delete request (related to the modal form) rather than the desired checkin request. Also fix formatting in this file.
* Use log mail driver for testing, should fix the functional issue. Disable acceptance tests on travis for now.
* Fix Category edit page.
* EOL Can be null.
* Step 1 of refactoring importer to use separate classes.
* Port web importer. Fix an issue with validation where index 0 would be treated as false and cause weird results.
* Farewall, AssetImport. You've served us well.
* Add presenters for models. Move bootstrap table JSON generation to these presenters, which cleans up controllers a lot. Move view specific modifications from the models to the presenters as well.
* Fix some issues found by travis and codacy
* Fix a few more issues found while testing.
* Attempt another acceptance test fix
* Try something else
* Maybe..
* Move conditionals out of the datatable method and into dedicated url methods.
* Add presenters for models. Move bootstrap table JSON generation to these presenters, which cleans up controllers a lot. Move view specific modifications from the models to the presenters as well.
* Fix some issues found by travis and codacy
* Fix a few more issues found while testing.
* Attempt another acceptance test fix
* Try something else
* Maybe..
* Make delete routes work. We put a little form in the modal that spoofs the delete field.
* Fix route on creating a user.
* Fix redundant id parameter.
* Port acceptance tests to new urls.
* Initial work on migrating to model based policies instead of global gates. Will allow for much more detailed permissions bits in the future.
* This needs to stay for the dashboard checks.
* Add user states for permissions to build tests.
* Build up unit tests for gates/permissions. Move accessories/consumables/assets to policies instead of in authserviceprovider
* Migrate various locations to new syntax. Update test to be more specific
* Fix functional tests.
Add an artisan command for installing a settings setup on travis-ci
* Try a different id... Need to come up with a better way of passing the id for tests that need an existing one.
* Try to fix travis
* Update urls to use routes and not hardcode old paths. Also fix some migration errors found along the way.:
* Add a environment for travis functional tests.
* Adjust config file to make travis use it.
* Use redirect()->route instead of redirect()-to
* Dump all failures in the output directory if travis fails.
* Cleanups and minor fixes.
* Adjust the supplier modelfactory to comply with new validation restrictions.
* Some test fixes.
* Locales can be longer than 5 characters according to faker... fex gez_ET. Increase lenght in mysql and add a validation
* Update test database dump to latest migrations.
* Extend Supplier phone/fax length.
This catches issues found in testing with a phone number with a five digit extension. fex (356) 654-3024 x36632
Also move away from escaping all values put into eloquent. Eloquent
already uses PDO parameter binding, and this was leading to names like
Mr Ryan O'Malley turning into an html escaped version of that name when
stored. All values should be escaped when using {{}}, we'll just have
to be more cautious when we use {!!, but I think we already are?
* Remove additional escaping here, like we did in suppliers controller.
* No need to eager load all of these relationships when we can call the count on the querybuilder directly
* Work on controller cleanup
* Always start from scrach, catches more issues this way.
* Update sql dump. Remove old code from permissions test.
* Generate a deletable item on demand in the test, rather than relying on one existing. I think we should probably move to mock all the database stuff at some point..
* More travis related fixes
* Break script into multiple functional lines
* Update all controllers to use the new helper, also cleanup syntax and docblocks along the way.
* Make delete routes work. We put a little form in the modal that spoofs the delete field.
* Fix route on creating a user.
* Fix redundant id parameter.
* Port acceptance tests to new urls.
* Initial work on migrating to model based policies instead of global gates. Will allow for much more detailed permissions bits in the future.
* This needs to stay for the dashboard checks.
* Add user states for permissions to build tests.
* Build up unit tests for gates/permissions. Move accessories/consumables/assets to policies instead of in authserviceprovider
* Migrate various locations to new syntax. Update test to be more specific
* Fix functional tests.
Add an artisan command for installing a settings setup on travis-ci
* Try a different id... Need to come up with a better way of passing the id for tests that need an existing one.
* Try to fix travis
* Update urls to use routes and not hardcode old paths. Also fix some migration errors found along the way.:
* Add a environment for travis functional tests.
* Adjust config file to make travis use it.
* Use redirect()->route instead of redirect()-to
* Dump all failures in the output directory if travis fails.
* Cleanups and minor fixes.
* Adjust the supplier modelfactory to comply with new validation restrictions.
* Some test fixes.
* Locales can be longer than 5 characters according to faker... fex gez_ET. Increase lenght in mysql and add a validation
* Update test database dump to latest migrations.
* Make delete routes work. We put a little form in the modal that spoofs the delete field.
* Fix route on creating a user.
* Fix redundant id parameter.
* Port acceptance tests to new urls.
* Make sure we set target_type when creating an accept asset log, and add a migration to fix older ones.
* On a declined log, we don't have an assigned user.
Guard against this conditional (which realistically should never be hit?)
Should fix#2940
* Fix codacy issues with migration.
* Update LicensesController.php
Should fix#2939. Cannot test at the moment, so please check :)
* Add delete tests. Improve test item generation.
* Add relationship here.
* Fix some issues with seeding.
* Log the user items are checked in from
This restores functionality that was lost in the port to loggable.
I'd still like to figure out a better term for the table, currently it says to, but I wonder if target is a better choice?
* Fix display of remaining seats on license view
* Consolidate edit form elements into reusable partials.
This is a large code change that doesn't do much immediately. It
refactors all of the various edit.blade.php files to reference
standardized partials, so that they all reference the same base html
layout. This has the side effect of moving everything to the new fancy
"required" indicators, and making things look consistent.
In addition, I've gone ahead and renamed a few database fields. We had
Assetmodel::modelno and Consumable::model_no, I've renamed both to
model_number. We had items using ::note and ::notes, I've standardized
on ::notes. Component used total_qty where consumables and accessories
used qty, so I've moved everything to qty (And fixed a few bugs in the
helper file in the process.
TODO includes looking at how/where to place the modal javascripts to
allow for on the fly creation from all places, rather than just the
asset page.
Rename assetmodel::modelno to model_number for clarity and consistency
Rename consumable::model_no to model_number for clarity and consistency
Rename assetmodel::note to notes for clarity and consistency
Port asset and assetmodel to new partials layout. Adapt all code to the renamed model_number and notes database changes. Fix some stying.
* Share a settings variable with all views.
* Allow editing the per_page setting. We showed the value, but we never showed it on the edit page..
* use snipeSettings in all views instead of the long ugly path.
* War on partials. Centralize all bootstrap table javascript
* Use model_number instead of modelno in importer
* Codacy fix.
* More unification/deduplication. Create an edit form template layout that we use as the base for all edit forms. This gives the same interface for editing everything and makes the edit.blade.* files much easier to read.
* Use a ViewComposer instead of sharing the variable directly. Fixes artisan optimize trying to hit the db--which ruins new installs
* Fix DB seeder.
* Base sql dump and csv's to import data from for tests.
* Start some functional tests for creating items.
* Add functional tests for all create methods. Still need to do tests for edits, deletes, and lots of other things
* Improvements to functional tests.
Use the built in DB seeding mechanism instead of doing it ourselves.
Break the tests into multiple units, rather than testing everything in
each function.
* Some improvements to acceptance tests.
Make sure we're only looking at the "trs" within the bootstrap table.
Creation of assets is now tested at the functional level (and is faster)
so ignore it here.
I'm testing acceptance tests with the
IMPORT_{ASSETS,ACCESSORIES,CONSUMABLES}.csv in the tests/_data folder
imported.
* A few things to make acceptance tests work. Add a name to the companies table, and make the locations table have the correct name
* Use a .env.tests file for testing functional and unit to allow a separate database.
* Add functional tests for compoents, groups, and licenses.
* Now that the config is in the functional.yml, this just confuses things.
* Start some functional tests for creating items.
* Add functional tests for all create methods. Still need to do tests for edits, deletes, and lots of other things
* Improvements to functional tests.
Use the built in DB seeding mechanism instead of doing it ourselves.
Break the tests into multiple units, rather than testing everything in
each function.
* Some improvements to acceptance tests.
Make sure we're only looking at the "trs" within the bootstrap table.
Creation of assets is now tested at the functional level (and is faster)
so ignore it here.
I'm testing acceptance tests with the
IMPORT_{ASSETS,ACCESSORIES,CONSUMABLES}.csv in the tests/_data folder
imported.
* update db dump
* Update tests to new reality
* env for the test setup
* only load the database at beginning of tests, not between each Functional test.
* Fix a miss from renaming note to notes.
* Set Termination date when creating an asset. It was only set on edit.
* Rename serial_number to serial in components for consistency.
* Update validation rules to match limits in database. Currently we just accepted the values and they were truncated when adding to DB.
* Much more detailed functional testing of creating items. This checks to make sure all values on form have been successfully persisted to database.
* Adds digital signature to asset acceptance
This is still a little broken - the history is displaying “Deleted user”, since there is no item type listed. Saving the item_type as App\Models\User tries to update accepted on the users table, which obviously doesn’t exist.
* Use asset facade for folks in subdirs
* Possible fix for weird accepted/declined display
* Display signature in modal popup if sigs are required
* Wrap that display file in auth middleware, just to be sure.
It shoudl fail if you’re not authorized since you’re not logged in, but better safe than sorry
* Fixed header section of layout
* Removed extra drop from migration rollback
This fixes a bug where the field was (correctly) disabled if the editing user isn’t a superadmin, but because the field was disabled, it would clear the permission groups.
* refactor to clean up LDAP login, and make the login method easier to handle.
* Login refactor cleanup
* Google 2FA package
* Adds Google Authenticator two-factor
* Removed unused blade
* Added optin setting in profile
* Removed dumb comments
* Made lock_passwords check more consistent
* Additional two factor strings
* Lock passwords check
* Display feature disabled text if in demo mode
* Two factor admin reset options
* Translation strings
* Better checking for empty values when updating. There's a lot of conditionals in here that we may want to look at cleaning up over time
* Fix typo. No manfacturers here.
* Fix model update/import. Also hardcode the status id of unset assets to the first existing one instead of an id that may not exist... Still not ideal, but better.
* Let requests to .env through the middleware. We check to see if this is readable during setup as a warning, and as it stands it triggers an infinite loop trying to hit the file.
* Early layout work on a cleaner permissions interface
* Cleanup layout. Make new permissions view work. Still needs some css and javascript improvements. Also need to do the same thing to the group view.
* Improve styling, add javascript to toggle an entire group of permissions if choosing the permission on the header row. Would be nice to add collapsing of sections in the future.
* Toggle viewing sections.
* Special case places where we only have one item in a group to only display the item once.
* Filter getCreate the same way.
* BugFix: Asset name was not included in custom report
* BugFix: Custom Asset Report did not escape commas in custom fields. So the csv file is inconsistent, if a custom field containes a comma. Added an escape function which escapes the commas with a backslash.
A csvreader can be configured to handle the escape character.
* Fix the actionlog/companyables problem by adding a company_id to all actionlogs and scoping directly on that. Works around bugs in laravel where trying to hunt down the polymorphic relationship would lead to an infinite loop
* Scope companyables in getactivityreport. Also eager load.
* Improve reportscontroller, work on seeder to test this.
* Only show company users in checkout dialogs
* If no admin associated with log, it might be a request. Leave blank instead of saying deleted admin
* When injecting company_id, use target instead of user if user is a superadmin
* Build up the seeder to generate users, companies, and logs.
* Eager load the log, don't scope the users log because the log should already include things only related to the user.
* commit temporal
* final translation commit -- added email translations
* final translation commit -- removed file for spanish translations
* final translation commit -- removed file for spanish translations
* added missing translations
* method overrided and config files back to default
* config files back to default
* config files back to default
* Create a new action_log table to replace asset_log. Use Polymorphism to generalize class and targets. Port everything I can find to use it. Add a migration to port the asset_logs table to action_logs.
* Initial work on requestable asset models
* Backend work for polymorphic requests table to store checkout requests.
* Add missing files
* Add a record to the db when requesting items. Build up a testing route for interfacing with this.
* Users can now toggle requests of items on the request page. Reformat page to use the same tab layout we use elsewhere
* Polymorphic request function. Implement requesting of asset models. Need to port mail/slack to notifications still.
* Implement requesting of asset models. Build up emails and notifications to support it. Allow specifying a quantity of model to request.
* Add view to show currently requested assets. Needs some work and cleanup, but it isn't accessible from anywhere yet.
* Save progress
* Create a new action_log table to replace asset_log. Use Polymorphism to generalize class and targets. Port everything I can find to use it. Add a migration to port the asset_logs table to action_logs.
* Allow accepted_id to be nullable.
* Comment out the thread_id migration, because it b0rks on a new database with the move. I'm unsure if the thread_id does anything...It doesn't seem to be used
* Clean up all old methods from Actionlog model. Port everything to use new cleaner interface.
* Port the actionlog factory to fix travis.
* Adjust code to work on php5. Also fix lurking adminlog call.
* Remove weird code
* Port the pave command. Also fix dangling adminlog
* Add support for updating assets to the importer.
If an asset with a matching asset tag is found, and the --update flag is
passed to the importer, we edit the matching asset with any
asset-specific values, and persist to the database. Any missing/blank
values are skipped.
TODO: Add to web interface, add support in consumables/accessories
* Allow deleting of files on the import page.
* Extend web interface to allow updating of imported items.
This adds a modal dialog to the import process. Currently the dialog
allows the choice of update vs ignore, and choosing the item type to
import (Accessory, Asset, Consumable).
Also use Helper::ParseFloat() for purchase_cost processing. It exists,
and fixes issues on my end at least.
* Implement editing of consumables and accessories.
* Rename getProcessImportFile to postProcessImportFile to reflect how it's now used
* Fix copy-pasta error.
* Add manufacturer to licenses. Shows in table and edit. Need to improve manufacturer view to show lists beyond assets still.
* Remove extra closing tags, formatting
* Work on making the manufacturer view show more options. Need to figure out how to change the table dynamically.
* Cleanup formatting and fix a few weirdities in hardware/view.blade.php
* Standardize on two-space tabs in this file, as it seems the most
* common.
* Fix a few places where we call number_format without guaranteeing the
* item is a number and not a string.
* Show a "No Results" message on components page if there are no
* components.
* Show table of licenses on manufacturer view page.
This reworks the ManufacturersController::getDataView method to delegate
the view to a sub method (currently assets or licenses, but plan to
extend to consumables/accessories/components as well). We then put tabs
at the top of the view to show multiple tables. This just duplicates
the table layout from licenses/index.blade, but I wonder if theres a way
to centralize that code, maybe through partials, over time..
The only known missing part of manufacturers for licenses would be adding it
to the importer, but the license importer should probably migrate to
object importer before doing too much more...
* Add manufacturer to accessory.
* Add consumables to the manufacturer view page.
This does two main things:
1) The importer now imports as numbers, not parsed strings. This allows
is to format values on output instead of input, which is what was
happening in most places.
2) Add a Helper::parseCurrencyString method and port everything to use
this. This checks to see if the value is numeric or empty, and returns
the appropriate value in all cases. Should fix all known occurances of
number_format expections.
* Prevent multiple checkouts of the same asset.
This adds a new method to the Asset model, availableForCheckout.
Port getDataTable to use availableForCheckout instead of doing the
check manually.
Fixes Issue #2347
* Use availableForCheckout in categories controller. Also gate the checkin/checkout actions here.
* Use gate and availableForCheckout in manufactuers as well.
The importer already formatted/parsed numbers on input into the db
(maybe it shouldn't have?) so running number_format on that string
throws an exception. Check to make sure the value is numeric before
formatting it.
* components.view should point to view, not create
* Fix comment
* Rename variable to accurately reflect its responsibility
* Fix line breaks in serial key, remove places where adding line breaks makes no sense. Fixes#2344
* If a user doesn't belong to a company, when scoping to a company we should only show items that don't belong to a company.
* Scope tables/items to the company they belong to when fetching items for the index.
* Fix asset count to also scope to company. This fixes dashboard view
* Exempt super users from the child company check to be consistent. Fixes license count on dashboard now that we scope everything
* Update installer script for v3 now that things have moved around.
* Make Statuslabel attributes fillable and add them to the generated array. Fixes status label tests.
* Quote item names when displaying in error table.
* Remove the danger class as well as the warning class when uploading a file. Fixes a display error if a file is successful after a file fails upload.
LDAP no longer fails completely when the connection settings are wrong, or when app key is messed up. Rather than auth as the admin user and search, we auth as the user themselves. Admin auth is only for LDAP sync now.
This should mean much fewer problems with donked LDAP settings and login.
* Fix adding an image to an asset when public/uploads/assets does not exist.
First check to see if we can create directory and do so. If any errors occur, display the error string as an error on the page.
* Add the public/uploads/assets directory to new installs.
* Add some comments explaining this code so I remember what it does next time.
This is a little janky, as it breaks up the errors into multiple screens if you don't have a status label type AND don't have a name. This is because the model-level validation won't work since we transmogrify that dropdown list of status label types into boolean values for the DB. Should eventually find a less clunky way to handle this, but needed to get a fix in now.
* Add model number column to the hardware list and allow searching based on model number. Column is hidden by default.
* Fix sorting. Add scope to order by model number.
If the requestable checkbox was not checked, it did not exist in the request.
Setting requestable to null in such a case would cause a violation because it should be 0/1.
Also fix a copy/paste where we reset requestable after checking for rtd_location_id.
1) Missing $admin_user in AccessoriesController::postCheckout(). Fixes#2183
2) AssetsController::postCheckin used the hardware url for the user link, not the user url
Reintroducing trusted proxies via fideloper/proxy:
* Upgraded fideloper/proxy to 3.1
* Added fideloper/proxy to Http/Kernel.php
* Added fideloper/proxy to config/app.php
* Added environment variable APP_TRUSTED_PROXIES to env (with '*' being the default fallback)
A mistake in the sqlite porting led to "Please select an asset"
disappearing. This centralizes that code in Helper, and uses the code
in Licensescontroller and componentscontroller.
Also use the proper name on the components checkout page.
AssetMaintencesController reuses the same underlying code as
licensescontroller, but we don't want "Please select an asset" to be an
option there, so I'm not changing that code.
This isn't a perfect solution. It basically just nullifies the check on
windows. I'm not sure if IIS can run as a nonelevated user though, so
perhaps thats the best choice. Regardless, this fixes the setup.
This allows for centralizing the category fetching code more and fixes
an error in asset model viewing (#2118). Also add a few translated
strings and standardize on a base of 'Select a *' for the default value
in our lists.