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| 11/25/2007 3:24 AM |
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Is it possible to turn off the help menu, my users do not want it . |
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Peter Donker
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| 11/26/2007 10:26 PM |
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You could edit the DesktopModules/Bring2mind/DMX/Menu/DefaultMenu.Resources yourself and rip it out. Other than that there is no way to turn it off. Note that manual changes are undone once you upload a new version. You'll need to redo the chanegs after every update.
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Rob Ralston
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| 12/03/2007 5:47 PM |
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I will need to manually edit Bring2mind/DMX/Menu/DefaultMenu.Resources file, also.
A future enhancement to turn off the Help menu for non-admins would be greatly appreciated. The documents that it provides have little, if any, value to regular users (at least my target users).
It might prove useful to let admins have their own defined Help menu linked to Help documents for users.
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Rob Ralston
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| 12/03/2007 6:51 PM |
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Hi Peter,
I've attempted to modify the named .resources file above, but cannot remove the Help menu. Can you please give more explicit directions to do this.
Thank you,
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Peter Donker
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| 12/03/2007 10:35 PM |
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Rob,
I don't want to support this kind of editing. It's easy to break the module by editing the xsl and one risk I run if I go into more details is a flood of support calls from people that try to dig into this. You need some background in XSL to do this or not touch it at all. I'll need to figure out a way to build an editor for this. Until that day the official line is that the menu is as it is. I hope you understand.
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Rob Ralston
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| 12/04/2007 12:23 PM |
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Hi Peter,
I understand your position on this. Makes complete sense. If you could just provide a module option (main or module specific) that will turn off the Help menu, that would do the trick short term, before you can build an editor.
Thanks for the consideration.
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Allan Williams
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| 12/10/2007 1:48 PM |
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This is an awesome module - but I would also like some flexibility on the Help menu. I'd rather my "regular" users not see all the help topics.
One option would be to put together a simple interface that allows admins to define:
1. Help Topic Title (the text that will display in the Help menu drop-down)
2. URL to Help Topic contents (i.e. could be another page on the site, a PDF file, word file, etc.)
3. Option to open in same window or new window.
4, Help topic order (the order the Help Topics will appear in Help menu)
5. Role(s) that can view the Help topic.
This would eliminate the need to build a comprehensive editor to handle Help topics. The Help men would be built at run-time and you could define the roles that could view the various Help topics. |
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Peter Donker
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| 12/10/2007 7:14 PM |
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Thanks for that suggestion, Allan. I'm also working on a simplified XML editor (because that's what the menu is after all). The titles of the menu are all in the Menu.ascx.resx file by the way. Note on your solution the following:
1. We also need to provide localization here. This makes this part quite complex.
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Kenneth
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| 11/17/2008 11:47 AM |
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Hello Peter,
I also like to modify the Help menu. I want to use my own help documents with their own document names in the help menu. Is the way to do this changed since this post was initiated?
Regards,
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Peter Donker
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| 11/17/2008 7:50 PM |
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Hi Kenneth,
Check out under portals/[id]/DMX/Menu there is a DefaultMenu.Resources. This is an XSL file. You can create a copy of this and rename it to MyMenu.Resources or something and play with it. You'll find the whole help menu in there with references to the .doc files on the server disk. Just replace that with calls of your own. The texts come from Menu.ascx.resx resource file. In the module settings you'll need to specify you're using the alternative menu. Note that during upgrades the DefaultMenu gets overwritten (or reset if you like).
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John Croson
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| 12/12/2008 10:37 PM |
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Following this thread, I'm curious what kind of information ./UserInfo exposes besides @IsAdmin, @UserID, etc.
What I'm interested in is role information, so I can further customize this menu based on that, or possibly *ugly bit here* match something like @UserName.
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Peter Donker
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| 12/16/2008 11:33 AM |
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Hi John,
Log in as host, go to the main options of the DMX and check the 'run in debug mode' checkbox. Now upon every hit a file is created under portals/[pid]/DMX/Temp/LastRequestedMenu.Xml. That is the XML that is used.
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Quinten Questel
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| 09/10/2009 4:53 PM |
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Hi Peter,
Could you please tell me where the XSL file for the help menu is so that we can remove it ourselve?. This is really important as the help menu confuses our client. Thanks |
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Peter Donker
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| 09/11/2009 5:46 PM |
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Hi Quinten,
The original is under DesktopModules/Bring2mind/DMX/Resources/Menu. This can be overwritten by an update.
This is subsequently copied to Portals/[id]/DMX/Menu whenever you reset menus or upgrade your system.
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Lewis Hill
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| 09/02/2010 7:30 PM |
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Hi Peter,
Have you added a setting to hide the Help Menu from basic (non-admin) users or do you have any plans to add this feature?
Thanks,
Lewis |
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Lewis Hill
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| 09/03/2010 2:29 AM |
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FYI – after reading your post I did updated the xml menu file to hide the Help menu from all users except admin which worked fine. |
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