How to remove sink option from back end ?

deepus

I want to remove sink option from back end in user role & permission and from edit category section. How can i do it?

vrijvlinder

The easiest way is to create a style sheet called customadmin.css and add it to your theme. Or add this to the admin.css

.CheckBoxGrid td input#Form_Permission38{
display:none;
}

R_J

Permissions are set with PermissionModels function Define and there also is a function Undefine. I guess you could try something like that in a plugin:

function Setup() {
   $PermissionModel = new PermissionModel();
   $PermissionModel->Undefine('Discussion.Sink');
}

and reverse that in the function OnDisable

But I'm not sure that this won't break anything...

deepus

Thank you vrijvlinder for your valuable reply and it is helpful. Thank you. Which is the view file which contain the sink option.? It will be help full for further works.

deepus

Where can i find

function Setup() {
   $PermissionModel = new PermissionModel();
  // $PermissionModel->Undefine('Discussion.Sink');
}

R_J

The path you see in your browsers address bar is /role/edit/X and it is part of the dashboard. So you can find the view in /applications/dashboard/views/role/edit.php
Yes, Vanilla is that easy!

But don't change core files!

R_J

@deepus said:
Where can i find

Nowhere. You would have to create either a theme hook (don't know much about that) or a plugin.

<?php if (!defined('APPLICATION')) exit();

$PluginInfo['NoSink'] = array(
    'Name' => 'NoSink',
    'Description' => 'Removes sink permission',
    'Author' => 'Glorious Nonsense Plugin Creator Robin'
);
class NoSinkPlugin extends Gdn_Plugin {

    function Setup() {
        $PermissionModel = new PermissionModel();
        $PermissionModel->Undefine('Discussions.Sink');
    }
    function OnDisable() {
        $PermissionModel = new PermissionModel();
        $PermissionModel->Define('Discussions.Sink');
    }
}

That is just a wild guess. Please don't test it on a live system.

EDIT: you would have to save that as /plugins/nosink/class.nosink.plugin.php

R_J

By the way: users that can change permissions can normally also enable/disable plugins.

May I ask why you want to do that?

R_J

Offtopic: my personal opinion is that a plugin like that is rubbish but I love the name and I would love the icon @vrijvlinder would create from such an ambiguity

R_J

Okay...
1. permission must be 'Vanilla.Discussions.Sink' and
2. it will not work for admins because a permission check for admins always results in "true" and
3. do you want to remove a feature because your custom theme broke it?!

If 3. is true, don't do that. Get your problem solved and don't search for workarounds that may sound promising. They are not. An unsolved error might lead to unforeseen problems at any time.

deepus

its not working

R_J

@R_J said at 11:07AM:
2. it will not work for admins

@deepus said at 12:07PM:
its not working

Maybe after all I'm a Crystal Ball candidate...

Well, is your motivation point 3 of my last posting? If so, I'd say you are looking for the answer to the wrong question.

hgtonight

You would also have to overwrite the sink method to do nothing.

vrijvlinder

I would simply hide it. Not sure why you want to remove it. When you hide it, make your it is unchecked.

peregrine

its not working

descriptive??? and the meaning of it is what?

you could delete the column from your permissions table, and it will disappear from dashboard for all roles. But will reappear on the next /utility/update or /utility/structure

but as everyone said, really makes no sense, just don't check it. why would you even care if it is in backend?

vrijvlinder

Maybe because in spanish the locale translations is literal ?

sink - fregadero which means kitchen sink should be ahogar which means to drown

peregrine

maybe he thinks sink is like kitchen sink (like whole enchilada).

vrijvlinder

peregrine

my final answer to

How to remove sink option from back end ?

two pipe wrenches and elbow grease

vrijvlinder

@peregrine said:
maybe he thinks sink is like kitchen sink (like whole enchilada).

Yea could be, in WP there is a button for the editor I used called kitchen sink. It basically was a toggle to hide a row of buttons.

deepus

_@peregrin_e‌ said
maybe he thinks sink is like kitchen sink

, do you think others are fool like you??