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 <davidalanr...@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 <i...@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 <davidalanr...@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...@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 <davidalanr...@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...@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 <i...@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 <davidalanr...@gmail.com (mailto: >> davidalanr...@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 >> > > >> > > >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > New York PHP SIG: Joomla! 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