With the upgrade to DRUPAL-5-1, the forum and blog posting edit pages have exploded into huge multipart forms largely irrelevent to our authors and even our editors, and intimidating to the more non-technical members. Is there some way to trim these from the edit form?

We need the menu module to give friendlier names to the menu items and to add a few informational pages, but I do not need to present the menu item creation sub-form for any blog or forum posts; is there some way to limit this option to just Page or Story types?

The same for the URL path; I need the path feature for pages and stories (eg privacy policy), but it is just noise on the blog and forum entry forms.

Authoring Information is also noise (even admin members need not be offered the option to post as some other member, and do not need any option to enter an invalid date), and we have no need for revisions, so there is no need for the Log Message.

I checked in the module admin pages, in the access permissions list and in the admin pages relating to nodes and blogs but could not find any means to disable these forms for specific note types; I'm wondering if perhaps there may be a secret configuration-option or installation-wide way to turn these features off. Can these be disabled? Or is the only way by directly editing the node-form code?

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OwnSourcing commented

I'm also very interested in this question. Giving any contributor the option of putting their content anywhere (defining their menu item) greatly reduces editorial control. I'd love to give contributors the opportunity to write about one specific thing and have the placement in the site map determined by the contributor's location. Otherwise they have to receive (and then be trusted to follow) specific instructions.

Perhaps that exists as a module?

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cosmicdreams commented

I have good news, but will give in multiple parts:

1. It is possible to change the text and order of menu-items. In Drupal 5.x you can do this by clicking on Administrator > Site building > Menus. There you will be able to create new menus and menuitems. You will be able to give menu-items destinations like node/add (which is the node creation page). You will also be able to theme those menus, a process wish is very easy to do in Drupal 6.

2. By going to Administrator > Site Building > Blocks you will able to change which blocks are displayed on your site and in what order and where. If you don't want the Author information block (awesome when you have the profile menu on and setup the way you want) then you can simply disable it.

3. If you don't want the author information drop down to display for your users during content creation, change the permission for author information. Its probably on Administrator > User management > Access control (I just forget which it is).

4. if you don't want to manipulate revisions, turn it off for you users. Disable the view and revert revisions permissions fond on the access control page I listed above.

5. Also remember that the number of options you see when logged on as the root user (user 1) is much different that the users who have to have every right extended to them. You may be seeing things your users don't. AND no matter what you turn off as user 1 you will still see everything, this is working as intended.

Overall, I suggest you scan through the many permissions in the Access Control page and review what you want turned on and what you don't.

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cosmicdreams commented
Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

I think this issue is a duplicate of http://drupal.org/node/47865

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