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[David Roth]

This is for a non-technical user who needs access to the back-end to edit a
few Articles and nothing more. The Administrator would change their
password if needed. Their e-mail address wouldn't change, and they would be
registered by the Administrator. This would be for only one or two
non-technical users at most, so there wouldn't be much for the
Administrator to do past setting up their login to the back-end.

A template override would be a good approach but it didn't look like this
was available to do for this feature. But I'm new to the Mission Control
template so I certainly could have missed something.

David Roth

On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Helvécio da Silva
<helvecio.rj at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm not sure if I understand exactly what you mean, but preventing an user
> from editing his/her own profile doesn't make sense to me. Say he/she
> changed his/her email. What would be the procedure to perform this action?
>
> Have you tried using a template override to reduce the options visible to
> edit?
>
> 2012/6/10 David Roth <davidalanroth at gmail.com>
>
>> I wanted to update everyone on my journey here to accomplish this. The
>> Mission Control admin template from Rocket Theme looks like the winner. I
>> was easily able to remove a bunch of stuff from the back-end for the
>> 'newbie' user without having to make any code changes. I also disabled some
>> modules that cluttered up and could possibly confuse a newbie.
>>
>> I have one task that remains:
>>
>> I've been able to remove many things from the webpage for the 'newbie'
>> user, but the EDIT for the 'newbie' profile still displays and is enabled.
>> I would like to remove the EDIT option from the web page. I don't want the
>> 'newbie' to change any of the settings for their profile.
>>
>> How could I best accomplish this? I have looked in the code for the
>> Mission Control template, and I could put in a check if the user is not
>> Super User then the EDIT would not appear, but I can't help wondering if
>> there is a better way or if I have overlooked a way to not display the EDIT
>> option?
>>
>> I could just assign the custom modified Mission Control template for the
>> 'newbie user' and the default Joomla admin template for the Super User, but
>> wanted to check on my approach here first. Thanks!
>>
>> David Roth
>>
>> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 7:58 AM, OSTraining <info at ostraining.com> wrote:
>>
>>> There's the two that ship with Joomla (BlueStork and Hathor), five more
>>> in the article below and three more linked in the comments:
>>>
>>> http://www.ostraining.com/blog/joomla/joomla-admin-templates/
>>>
>>> There's also a few more floating around including the work done on this
>>> Joomla distro: http://squareonecms.com/. Quite a few of those changes
>>> might make Joomla 3.
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, May 30, 2012 at 1:51 AM, Helvécio da Silva wrote:
>>>
>>> I find the back-end template waaaaaay more complex to fiddle with.
>>>
>>> I know of only two so far:
>>>
>>> - AdminPraise Lite from the guys who make ProjectFork. There's a premium
>>> version that seems to have more configuration options.
>>> - Mission Control from RocketThem
>>>
>>> 2012/5/29 David Roth <davidalanroth at gmail.com>
>>>
>>> That looks very useful, thanks!
>>>
>>> I can't help from wondering if someone has created an entire extension
>>> that is a replacement for the back-end that incorporates all these features
>>> without having to make changes in the code. If not, maybe there should be?
>>>
>>> David Roth
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Helvécio da Silva <
>>> helvecio.rj at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Is this is what you are looking for?
>>>
>>>
>>> http://magazine.joomla.org/issues/Issue-Apr-2012/item/721-Customizing-the-Admin-Menu
>>>
>>> 2012/5/29 David Roth <davidalanroth at gmail.com>
>>>
>>> Thanks to both of you! Those articles were very helpful. I had not
>>> gotten a chance to check out the ACL feature in Joomla until now.
>>>
>>> I was wondering while reading it, is there a way to replace the "help"
>>> tab so it links to custom documentation for the user instead of the Joomla
>>> documentation and links? Thanks!
>>>
>>> David Roth
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 7:26 AM, Helvécio da Silva <
>>> helvecio.rj at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I found this from Jen Kramer (She's GREAT!) in Joomla Magazine. It can
>>> be a kickstart.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://magazine.joomla.org/issues/Issue-May-2012/item/761-Joomla-ACL-Configuring-back-end
>>>
>>> 2012/5/23 OSTraining <info at ostraining.com>
>>>
>>> Hi David
>>>
>>> Give this a try:
>>>
>>> http://www.ostraining.com/blog/joomla/joomla-acl-tutorial-for-allowing-one-person-to-modify-only-one-category/
>>>
>>> That was written a while ago and there's an extra permission now.
>>>
>>> You'll also need to go to Site > Global Configuration > Permissions and
>>> give the new user group permission to "Access Administration Interface"
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at 6:40 AM, Helvécio da Silva wrote:
>>>
>>> > You can use Joomla 2.5.x ACL to acomplish that. A little bit tricky,
>>> but I believe it can be done.
>>> >
>>> > G'luck!
>>> >
>>> > 2012/5/23 David Roth <davidalanroth at gmail.com (mailto:
>>> davidalanroth at gmail.com)>
>>> > > I've never bothered with any other template for Admin than what is
>>> supplied with Joomla. But I want to be able to have a non-technical user be
>>> able to edit the content for a category of Articles assigned to them, but
>>> don't want anything else visible to them so they don't become confused or
>>> start to mess around with things which could screw up the pages. Before
>>> anyone tells me that the user should go through training and learn how to
>>> manage things so this doesn't happen, while I would agree, that isn't the
>>> case this time.
>>> > >
>>> > > Does such an admin template already exist? Or can Joomla 2.5.4 be
>>> made restrictive enough so when this non-technical user logins in they only
>>> see what they need to? Thanks!
>>> > >
>>> > > David Roth
>>> > >
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>>> > Helvecio "Elvis" da Silva
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>>> > http://www.helvecio.com - http://blog.helvecio.com
>>>
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