By bassplaya on

yes, that's right I want my users only to see the necessary menu items such as create content and such.
Everytime when I create a user role, they all see the admin menu.. how do I prevent this? Is this done in the access control tab?

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adam_b commented

Make a block which is only visible to administrators, and then put all your admin-type links in that - regular users will never see it.

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bassplaya commented

could you be more specific on how to do this? I have already created a block and called it "admin section hidden for normal users". How do I move now the specific links from the navigation block to that block?
If the adminster menu is enabled in the access control page, would the user still see all the possible options in the node form? And how about the administrator? would he see the all menu options in the node form?

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shyamala commented

Use access control, allow user to only create and view content, do not enable any of the admin features.

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bassplaya commented

Without the option of administer menu enabled in the access control for this user, the user won't be able to place a newly created page in its proper menu.
If this option is enabled he/she can do so BUT they'll see all the other menus and can access them.
So 1. seeing is not allowed and 2. modifying is not allowed neither.
How would you do that?

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vjuhasz commented

Use the FORMFILTER module, which allows you to hide/unhide certain menu elements on the page.

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bassplaya commented

formfilter module appears to be only working on version 5.x. not 4.7.x

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bassplaya commented

Hi Guys,

don't want to be pushy but could anybody give me some more information on how to move the admin section to another block? Apparently with the normal functions in Drupal 4.7.x this doesn't seem possible. I could be mistaken and if so, please let me know and what to fix.

cheers to y'all !!

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Smath commented

I disable those menu blocks completely and use http://drupal.org/project/admin_menu . Here is a screenshot http://www.unleashedmind.com/drupal/admin_menu/

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If you disable the regular Navigation block completely, I could imagine that you would like to see a Log out link in the Admin Menu. If that is true, you should go over there and vote for this feature.

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bassplaya commented

I tried out smath's link but still the user can see every dropdown item on the story/page edit node.
What I would like to do is to eliminate so many functionalities for my users.. I would like to get rid of the formating options, publishing options, comment settings, log message, news... all NOT NECESSARY.. I would like to keep it very very simple for my user...
KEEP Only: Title, body and Menu Settings (where in Menu Settings, only the necessary menu items that I enabled for my customers will appear and not all other menu items such as admin, access roles, etc.. ) and set always the publishing options as "published".

So, is this doable? I guess it is but needs some php programming and I'm not the expert here..
Any php guru who has already done such things?

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