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:
#mc-frame .mc-button{display:none}
EDIT is gone for good one more time!
2012/6/10 Helvécio da Silva <helvecio...@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 <davidalanr...@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...@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
>>>>> > >
>>>>> > >
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>>>>> > Rio de Janeiro - Brasil - helvecio...@gmail.com (mailto:
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>>>>> > http://www.helvecio.com - http://blog.helvecio.com
>>>>>
>>>>>
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> Rio de Janeiro - Brasil - helvecio...@gmail.com
> http://www.helvecio.com - http://blog.helvecio.com
>
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