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[David Roth]

Good idea. I'm going to try it. Thanks!

David Roth
On Jun 10, 2012 10:17 PM, "Helvécio da Silva" <helvecio.rj at gmail.com> wrote:

> ALSO you can use CSS to not display the button.
>
> In core.css change this piece of style on line 17:
>
> #mc-frame .mc-button{display:inline-block}
>
> to:
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> #mc-frame .mc-button{display:none}
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> EDIT is gone for good one more time!
>
> 2012/6/10 Helvécio da Silva <helvecio.rj at gmail.com>
>
>> If you want to simply not display the EDIT button, go to your site's
>> joomla roo then:
>>
>> administrator > templates > rt_missioncontrol > lib >
>> missioncontrol.class.php
>>
>> Just place // before the following line:
>>
>> $output .= '<span
>> class="mc-button">'.$edit_link.JTEXT::_('MC_EDIT_BUTTON').'</a></span>';
>>
>> It should be line 181 or around it.
>>
>> Upload this file and your EDIT button is gone for good.
>>
>> Make sure to back up this file prior to making changes, just in case.
>>
>> I REALLY don't know if this change could affect anything system-wide.
>>
>> G'luck!
>>
>> 2012/6/10 David Roth <davidalanroth at gmail.com>
>>
>>> 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
>>>>>> > Rio de Janeiro - Brasil - helvecio.rj at gmail.com (mailto:
>>>>>> helvecio.rj at gmail.com)
>>>>>> > http://www.helvecio.com - http://blog.helvecio.com
>>>>>>
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>> Helvecio "Elvis" da Silva
>> Rio de Janeiro - Brasil - helvecio.rj at gmail.com
>> http://www.helvecio.com - http://blog.helvecio.com
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> http://www.helvecio.com - http://blog.helvecio.com
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