Removing an Item from Magento's Admin Panel Navigation

Question

Using the Magento Ecommerce system, is is possible to remove an item from the Admin Panel Navigation menu? More generally, is there a way to use the config override system to remove existing elements from a configuration?

I know I can add to the navigation with an override that looks something like this

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
    <modules>
        <Company_Module>
            <version>
                0.1.0
            </version>
        </Company_Module>
    </modules>

    <adminhtml>
        <menu>
             <cms translate="title" module="cms">
                <title>The CMS</title>
                <sort_order>70</sort_order>
                <children>
                    <foo translate="title" module="cms">
                        <title>Foo Item</title>
                        <action>adminhtml/foo</action>
                    </foo>
                </children>
             </cms>
        </menu>    
    </adminhtml>
</config>

but how would/could I completely suppress the CMS navigation item?

score 14 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 15 '12 at 16:49

14

Cleaner way to do this:

Add a adminhtml.xml (e.g. to an existing modules that keeps all other customization stuff, or create a new module)

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<config>
    <menu>
        <xmlconnect>
            <disabled>1</disabled>
        </xmlconnect>
    </menu>
</config>

answered Nov 15 '12 at 16:49

fbrnc

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This is definitely the way to handle things in a modern version of Magento. I'm not sure if it's supported in older version, but if you're having trouble see the old, original accepted answer: http://stackoverflow.com/a/769931/4668 – Alana Storm Nov 15 '12 at 16:51

score 11 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 20 '09 at 20:24

11

You could inject a bogus module dependency into the menu item in your config.xml.

In your case,

<adminhtml>
  <menu>
    <cms translate="title" module="cms">
      <depends><module>HideMe</module></depends>
    </cms>
  </menu>
</adminhtml>

answered Apr 20 '09 at 20:24

Scott Moorhouse

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Your science impresses me! Will depends work like that in other areas of the config file? I'd only even seen it used to ensure correct module loading order. – Alana Storm Apr 20 '09 at 22:01
It seems to be only for initializing Magento's modules (as you stated) and building the adminhtml menu. Module dependencies seem to be checked in these classes: Mage_Adminhtml_Block_Page_Menu Mage_Adminhtml_Model_Config Mage_Adminhtml_Model_System_Config_Source_Admin_Page Mage_Api_Model_Config Mage_Core_Model_Config – Scott Moorhouse Apr 21 '09 at 16:00
1

@Alan and @Scott just wondering if either of you found a more elegant way of doing this in the two years since posting. It seems a little ... hacky (no offense intended!). Thanks, JD – Jonathan Day May 05 '11 at 04:45
@JonathanDay It looks like modern version of Magento support a 1 node to turn a menu (or ACL rule) on/off. – Alana Storm Aug 08 '12 at 19:43

score 4 · Answer 3 · answered May 24 '12 at 20:33

I don't think Alan would still need anyone to ask this question, but for anyone else that might end up reading this, it would be a bit better to use:

<adminhtml>
  <menu>
    <cms translate="title" module="cms">
      <depends><config>some/configuration/flag</config></depends>
    </cms>
  </menu>
</adminhtml>

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 02 '13 at 09:05

For a specific menu point you can use:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
    <menu>
        <customer>
            <children>
                <online>
                    <disabled>1</disabled>
                </online>
            </children>
        </customer>
    </menu>
</config>

Removing an Item from Magento's Admin Panel Navigation

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