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How to hide 'System > Control Panel', 'Components', 'Help' these 3 menu items in joomla3? Sorry not enough reputation to post image. =.= Certain user groups do not need to access/view these. I have hide the rest such as 'Users', 'Menus', 'Contents', 'Extensions' but can't hide these.

Arnab Nandy
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mmm
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  • As this question is about Joomla specific implementation details, you may get a better result if you, try asking on [the Joomla Q&A StackExhange site](http://joomla.stackexchange.com) – Craig Sep 20 '14 at 23:25

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Removing help item could easily done from:

Extensions -> Module Manager -> Administrator -> Admin Menu -> Advanced -> Help Menu: Hide

For the rest of the menu items you have to make an override to the admin menu module.

You have to download:

/administrator/modules/mod_menu/tmpl/default_enabled.php

And copy to:

/administrator/templates/*your_admin_template/html/mod_menu/default_enabled.php

You have to check if active user is not to the level that you don't want to show the menu item (id: 18) in our example. So for control panel item you have to change:

$menu->addChild(new JMenuNode(JText::_('MOD_MENU_CONTROL_PANEL'), 'index.php', 'class:cpanel'));

To:

if(!in_array(18, $user->groups)){
$menu->addChild(new JMenuNode(JText::_('MOD_MENU_CONTROL_PANEL'), 'index.php', 'class:cpanel'));
}

And for components menu you have to find:

if ($components)

And change to: 

if ($components && !in_array(18, $user->groups))

Good Luck!

emmanuel
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  • Is there any way to change it without change the php? – mmm Sep 19 '14 at 08:36
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    Unfortunately no, this is the only solution but uses template override so you won't have problem updating your joomla installation. – emmanuel Sep 21 '14 at 08:10
  • @mmm: take a look at this out-of-box solution http://foobla.com/joomla-goodies/admin-menu-hider, no code touch. – Thong Tran Dec 22 '14 at 09:30
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Log into your back-end using a username that has Super Administrator privileges

Set to new user - Publisher group (or any other except Administrator/Supper Administrator )
Edit access rights in System -> Global Configuration -> Permissions
Set:
Site Login
Allowed
Admin Login
Allowed
Offline Access
Denied
Super User
Denied
Access Administration Interface
Denied
...

help menu:
Go to the Module Manager
Choose Administrator from the dropdown (Site/Administrator)
Choose the module "Admin Menu" and Edit
In Advanced menu choose "Help Menu" value -> Hide

Rudolf Pipopulo
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  • Hi! How about to hide 'System'? There are 'Control Panel', 'Clear Cache', 'Purge Expired Cache' in 'System'. Btw, able to hide the Help menu! Thanks. – mmm Sep 19 '14 at 08:35
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You can use the built in override creation:

  1. goto Template Manager
  2. Click on Templates
  3. Click on Template name. In my case "Isis"
  4. Click on Create Overrides
  5. Click on "mod_menu"

Now those files will be available via FTP here: public_html/administrator/templates/isis/html/mod_menu

modernmagic
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Open the file administrator/modules/mod_menu/tmpl/default_enabled.php from whichever template you are using for administrative area (for instance, mine is IsIs).

Find the following block of code

/*
 * Help Submenu
 */
if ($showhelp == 1)
{

And change the if condition ($showhelp == 1) to $showhelp == 0 and the help menu disappears.

Luís Cruz
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