Re: Administration Pages - Modifying Data Displayed

"wwalkerbout" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
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I think someone has already backported the existing SimpleAdmin module, some 
time back. I'll ask about. The original 1.x SimpleAdmin too as i'm sure that 
was downloaded many times and is still being used on some Xaraya sites 
somewhere.  It might be worth asking on IRC or the forms for example.

>> On the other hand not *all* this complexity needs to be shoved in an 
>> admin's face. And if you have fewer things staring back at you from the 
>> screen it's easier to figure out what your inportant optins are.

I agree and would very rarely show the Xaraya Adminpanel menu to the site 
'admins' or 'editors'. The simple solution that also makes the admin area 
very clean, for me, is to do a custom base menu for content Editors, for 
example, and one for the 'technical admins' . These would be a cut down 
version of the full admin area. Sometimes I only have a few links in the 
Editor menu.

You can do this quickly by creating a simple base menu and adding in the 
links for the modules or areas the Editors or 'admin's need access to. The 
second step, through use of a simple privilege, allow access the base menu 
only for that group. You can use all the shortcuts to create menu links that 
you usual would so that short or long urls will display automatically 
depending on your site settings. You can easily swap or add menus to a role 
group by adding the relevant privilege to the group.

These groups never see the 'adminpanel' menu. You can template the Editor 
menu and Tech menu separately too with blocks and make it as intrusive as 
you want (eg as a horizontal top menu) or 'normal' vertical menu in a column 
somewhere.

Seems a quick and customizable way to easily setup simple "admin" areas for 
different functional groups on a site.

Jo