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Custom admin area

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Daniel Bins

Monday 20 November 2006 9:26:46 am

Is posible to customize the admin area? For example, hide some links o sections.

Matthew Carroll

Tuesday 21 November 2006 10:27:45 am

Yes, it's possible.

We do this to make a slightly more user-friendly 'edit' interface (less confusing options) on a few sites. The way to do it is to set up your own design, that has the default admin interface as a fall back, e.g. in edit/site.ini.append.php:

[DesignSettings]
SiteDesign=edit
AdditionalSiteDesignList[]=admin

...then you can override admin templates as required in that design, in my case commenting out large chunks of the admin interface I don't need my 'editors' to have access to, but still keeping an 'admin' siteaccess for myself and power users.

Matthew

http://carroll.org.uk

Joe Kepley

Tuesday 21 November 2006 10:59:41 am

We take Matthew's approach as well. We even have a default override that we start with on every site. No big changes, but we mainly move the right column to the bottom of the left column so that there's more width available for the main column.

If you have a situation where you just want certain users to only edit certain items, you can even build editing features into the 'public' side of your site by checking to see if a user is logged in, and providing edit links in the template if they have editing permissions.

Ekkehard Dörre

Wednesday 22 November 2006 5:48:08 am

Hi Daniel,

you can take a different admin, if it fits better to your needs:

http://ez.no/products/partner_products/nexus_admin

Greetings, ekke

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Daniel Bins

Tuesday 28 November 2006 4:32:42 am

Thanks Ekke, I installed the Nexus and the startup is more fast than the default admin!

But, I have one trouble.

In the settings of some files, like:

[NodetreeSettings]
DefaultNodeID=105 <- Change

or

URL[default]=nodetree/view/105 <- Change
URL[browse]=content/browse/105 <- Change

I will replace the 105, but, what is the node number? I try to replace the 105 for 2, the root node of the site, but is not working.