Re: [Summary-Talk] feature badly needed

[John May <jmaymailing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>John May wrote:
>>>
>>>  Use "Custom HTML header" on the Custom HTML configuration page
>>>  to define a header that doesn't contain the configuration button.
>>
>>  Will this disable it too if the administrator is logged in?  Or will
>>  it reappear then?
>
>Yes, this would disable it even when the administrator is logged in. The
>administrator would generally know the direct URL for the configuration
>page, and the configuration link will appear and disappear in the report
>menu based on being logged in as administrator. The only thing that
>isn't easy to do when you have removed the configuration button is
>report layout configuration, where the URL changes for each report, but
>that doesn't usually need to be accessed frequently.
>
>One thing some people do is to put a link to the configuration page on
>one of the characters that appears in the footer anyway and style the
>link so that it is the same color as the rest of the text and isn't
>underlined. Then you can easily get to configuration but the presence of
>the link isn't obvious.
>
>Jason


So wouldn't Alex's original request to be able to disable the
configure button for end-users be a good thing then, instead of this
rather arcane work-around?

	- John

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