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[Helvécio da Silva]

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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