Vtiger CRM History widget always shows 'admin' — ModTracker bug fix

After upgrading from Vtiger 7.0 to 7.1, the History widget on every record shows 'admin' as the user for all changes, regardless of which user actually made the change. This breaks our audit trail completely.

Is this a known bug? Is there a fix or is a hotfix planned?

This is a confirmed bug in Vtiger 7.1 where the $current_user global is overwritten by the workflow system before the ModTracker handler reads it.

Fix 1 — ModTrackerHandler.php (recommended)

Edit modules/ModTracker/ModTrackerHandler.php.

Find the handleEvent function. Replace:

php

global $adb, $current_user;

$userid = $current_user->id;

With:

php

global $adb;

$curid = isset($_SESSION['authenticated_user_id'])

    ? (int)$_SESSION['authenticated_user_id']

    : 1;

$userid = $curid;

Fix 2 — WSAPPAssignToTracker.php (workaround)

In modules/WSAPP/WorkFlowHandlers/WSAPPAssignToTracker.php, inside handleEvent(), comment out:

php

// $current_user = $user; // ← this line overwrites the global

Root cause: Vtiger overwrites $current_user in the workflow handler to run actions as the assigned user, but this breaks the audit trail for the same request.