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...@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 <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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