Or preferably in the add-on library. I’d really like to see that repository used more over the wiki; after all, that is what it’s there for.

Cocoaholic, great work!  I have uploaded your extensions.

Now I wonder if it’s possible to remove some tabs within the modules pane. 

In the Gallery module, I want to hide:

view entries
categories
preferences.

E.g., I want a bunch of students to upload pictures into the gallery, and put their own names and credits and captions in there.  But I don’t want them to be able to access the “view entries” tab (because then they could easily delete or mess up each other’s work), or the “categories” (again, don’t want them to mess it up), or, of course, the “preferences”. 

I DO want them to be able to add new entries, batch entries, use the toolbox, and view gallery.

In this case, I would show the module tab (since this class of user has access only to gallery, they won’t see anything else), but hide the three tabs listed above.

I think this would make the gallery a very useful community tool. 

Is it doable?

Thanks!

I suppose I should put that as a feature request.  Because also, it would be nice if the student could edit their own uploads without being able to mess with anyone elses.  Just as in weblogs. 

Should I move this to feature request?

Hi, RR. There is no feature requests forum for extensions.

But these sound like useful additions.

Well, this was more of an either/or thing.

Either: an extension - provided that it would be simple to just modify this current extension to do the same thing but to the tabs one layer down within a module (hide edit, categories & preferences),

Or:  an actual feature of the forum module to make it community usable within a website.  Make it more integrated into the publish and edit tab features ?  I don’t know how you would approach it that way. 

Because also, incorporating it that way would enable multiple authors’ information in the gallery.  Right now, if we get multiple people using the gallery module, it doesn’t distinguish authorship.  And they can only edit it a bit on their first post, but after that need access to the edit entries tab, which I’m trying to hide with the extension modifications proposed here so they don’t go in and delete other people’s stuff. 

But this is limiting and then it’s back on the admin to do any edits.  Inefficient. 

So, it’s like 2 different paths to take here:  1) an extension approach for hiding tabs; or 2) the feature request for forum publishing and editing capacity by multiple users which is far more involved, but would be very useful down the line.