The Personal Bar

by John DeStefano — last modified Feb 04, 2009 03:00 AM
Contributors: Stephanie McFarlin
Editing the default appearance of the user personal bar
the personal Bar

 

In Plone v2.x:

  • Template: global_personalbar
    • Located: [site]/portal_skins/plone_templates
  • CSS: #portal-personaltools, #portal-personaltools .portalUser, #portal-personaltools .portalNotLoggedIn, #portal-personaltools li, and #portal-personaltools li a
    • Located: [site]/portal_skins/plone_styles/plone.css

In Plone v3.x:

  • Template: plone.personal_bar
    • Located: [site]/portal_view_customizations
  • CSS: #portal-personaltools, #portal-personaltools .portalUser, #portal-personaltools .portalNotLoggedIn, #portal-personaltools li, and #portal-personaltools li a
    • Located: [site]/portal_skins/plone_styles/public.css

 

Additional Information:

The items that appear in the personal bar come from a few places. To disable most of them:

In Plone v2.x:

  • Click [site]/portal_membership
  • Click the Actions tab
  • Uncheck Visible? for everything you don't want to be displayed
  • Click Save at the bottom of the form

In Plone v3.x:

  • Click [site]/portal_actions
  • Click the User object
  • Click the name of the object you want to disable (join, undo, etc.)
  • Uncheck Visible?
  • Click Save Changes at the bottom of the form

 

To disable join in Plone v2.x:

  • Click [site]/portal_registration
  • Uncheck Visible?
  • Click Save

To disable undo in Plone v2.x:

  • Click [site]/portal_undo
  • Uncheck Visible?
  • Click Save