I have an application I am developing with Access 2010. In certain circumstances I have to limit the users to a very limited subset of the application. This implies a limited Ribbon - by setting a dbProperties to "AllowAllMenus" to false, and changing the File menu (using a Custom Backstage ribbon).
This blocks most off the holes that would allow the user to get back to full menus, and then have access to data I would rather he didn't.
However, there is a hole in this process. The quick access toolbar as a little drop down arrow on the end of it with a hover of "Customise Toolbar". Using it drops down a menu with "More Commands...". Clicking on that drops you into the same dialog box you get when you chose "Options" from the File Menu (disabling of which was the prime purpose of my Backstage Ribbon change).
I can of course do the following in VBA
DoCmd.ShowToolbar "Ribbon",acToolbarNo
but that hides all the menus and Quick Access Toolbar completely. I don't want that, because I still need to allow the user to set up filters and toggle them on an off from the data they do see.
I can't find any other reference to how to block up this security hole in the applcation. Does anyone have any ideas on how?
Assuming that you already have your custom ribbon, make sure that you have assigned: startFromScratch="true".
However, this will disable not only "More Commands..", but all the other options of QAT dropdown list as well, except "Show Below the Ribbon".
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Does anyone know if the aria authoring web page is keyboard accessible(https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices-1.1/) ? Looking for keyboard interaction assistance to move focus between the left and right pane.
It'd be nice if browsers took advantage of landmarks so that keyboard users would benefit. Currently, only screen reader users benefit from them. Most applications on a PC allow the F6 key to navigate to different areas. Try it in Word, Excel, browsers, whatever desktop apps. It even sort of works on the authoring practice page, but not completely (at least not in firefox).
We had to implement our own landmarks dialog that we invoked with Ctrl+F6 (so it'd be similar to F6) and we'd query the page for landmark roles and display them in a dialog to allow you to quickly jump to a section of the page.
Skip links are about as close as you can get now, but even that wouldn't help on a page like the authoring practice. If I had tabbed through half the links in the left nav panel and then decided I wanted to move the main contents in the right panel, a skip link wouldn't help. I'd have to navigate back to the skip link in order to jump to the main section. It'd be nice to hit a key while I was in the middle of the left nav to jump me to the right side.
You could use the accesskey attribute to allow a shortkey to move between the two, but those are hard to discover. JAWS will tell you about the accesskey but NVDA and VoiceOver will not. If you don't have any indication on the screen that there's a shortcut/accesskey, then how will people know it's there. Once they know about it, it's great. For example, wikipedia has an accesskey='f' on the search field, but you might not know that. Once you do know it, it's great to be in the middle of a wiki article and hit alt+shift+f (on firefox and chrome) or alt+f (internet explorer) to quickly jump to the search field.
You could do the same with a left panel / right panel configuration if you had an accesskey on an object in the left panel and a different accesskey on an object in the right panel. Just make sure users know about it.
I have been using the Scald module for few months now, with great experience. But there is one thing I haven't quite figured out yet.
When I have Drag'n'Drop enabled for a textarea (with CKEditor) I can drag images into the textarea and it displays in it's original size. If i Right-click the image I get the image properties for the image, but only at CSS level.
I'm trying to figure out how to add an Image Style to the image, so that my 4000x3000 image that I drag into the editor will be scaled down to a nicer 300x200 image where wanted, and therefor save some valuable bandwidth.
I found the answer after a pile of googling and reading through few articles. First and foremost it was the one about installing and configuring Scald. (Please Google, I can't post that many links :( )
I installed the CKEditor module, disabled the Wysiwyg module, downloaded the library into sites/all/libraries/, and finally read this article about contexts with Scald: https://drupal.org/node/2104651.
Bottom line, this is possible, but not easy (as sometimes Scald is), but when you get the hang of it, it's much better than the Media module.
I just struggled with this so thought I'd document how to set up contexts.
This is how you add new contexts which can use an image style formatter as a transcoder using the UI:
Go to /admin/structure/scald and click add context. Choose any name and details, but do check "Make parseable"
On the top of the original page for scald settings click "Contexts" in the upper right for "Image" under "Scald Unified Atom Types"
In the page that loads (/admin/structure/scald/image/contexts) you'll see your new context named. Open the fieldset and change the "Transcoder" from "Passthrough" to one of your image styles, e.g. "Large (image style)"
Now when you right-click on a image atom in a textarea wysiwyg and choose "Edit Atom Properties" you'll get a dialog with a new context to choose from. You can also go the default contexts provided by Scald and change them from "Passthrough" to one of your image styles.
Also, at the moment you also have to apply this change https://drupal.org/node/2046545 to scald.pages.inc or you'll lose your legend as you switch contexts or use the dev version. When 7.x-1.2 is released this will no longer be necessary.
I just ran across this same issue, using WYSIWYG 2.x-dev with CKEditor library 4.3, Scald 1.2. What fixed it was one of these things (sorry can't remember exactly which one):
Both "Scald DnD Integration" and "Scald SAS conversion" enabled in the relevant WYSIWYG profiles
The display settings for your image (at admin/structure/scald/image/display) have atom field set to enabled but image field set to hidden
You want to use the insert image module
https://drupal.org/project/insert
The easiest way to assign image styles to images going into a wysiwyg area
Is it possible to add a shortcut to the menu bar that when clicked, goes straight to the link provided.
e.g. currently if I'm on http://mywebsite.com and I click a shortcut to the admin menu, the url changes to http://mywebsite.com/#overlay=admin and it appears in the popup overlay.
What I want is to go directly to the admin url without the overlay (http://mywebsite.com/admin). It's slow and clunky and can't stand it. However on some occasions it is useful to have it in a popup so it doesn't navigate away from the current page.
I know there's a setting to force all overlay actions to go straight to the page, but I don't want that. I only want a single shortcut link to bypass the overlay, so I can use the admin area directly when I need to, and everything else stays as is.
Can this be done for a single shortcut, or can it only be set one way for everything?
Drupal won't open the overlay if you can get the class 'overlay-exclude' onto the link.
You should be able to get that class onto the link by overriding theme_menu_link() in your theme and checking whether the link belongs to the shortcut set as you go.
You also may be able to use javascript to accomplish the same thing, say something like jQuery('.toolbar-shortcuts a[href="/admin"]').addClass('overlay-exclude')
I'm trying to create a totally custom/external toolbar for Redactor. So far, I think the best way to do this is to actually turn off the toolbar by default, and create a plugin for it.
I was able to do this successfully wit my custom feature set, but I can't indicate the state of the text in my toolbar itself. (ie: if a user changes the fontSize, and later on clicks in the middle of the word/sentence, I wanna be able to display that on the toolbar somehow)
Has anybody else run into this?
thanks,
--iM
I am developing an ASP.NET application for an online quiz test. The set of questions would be randomly selected from a pool of questions. The application works fine, but I want to hide the browser menu option (so that user cannot save or print the test) when the quiz page is shown. I do not want to open a new popup window. So how do I do this for the active window.
The application consists of around 5 web pages, and the test is on pages 3 and 4. So I want the menu to be hidden only on pages 3 and 4. Is this possible and how do I do this?
Thanks in advance
This isn't possible. You can only hide the menu bar in a popup window.
Either way, though, the user can always right-click and select Print, or use a shortcut like Ctrl + P. And even if you could hide the menu, they could just disable JavaScript. If they really want to print/save the quiz, you won't stop them. I suggest finding another workaround.
I don't think it is possible to do what you are asking.
And remember that there are other ways to print than using the menu of the browser : Ctrl+P generally does that , it's also possible to "save the page" from the right-click menu or using Ctrl+S -- and, of course, there is always print-screen ;-)
The best "protection" you can probably have is defining a correct license (which means you might need a lawyer, to get something solid), that explicitly forbids re-distribution of questions : this way, your users can re-use the questions for them -- you cannot prevent that, anyway -- but can't re-distribute them.
Of course, this is probably only worth it if you are developping some quizz with questions that you are going to sell.
Once the page is rendered to the screen the ultimate control goes to the user. He can turn off javascript and do the necessary job or he can capture the page and so many ways.
Better not to try doing this.
As long as the data is in the user's computer he may access it in one way or another, and i'm not sure its worth the hassle.
If you want to deny printing, you may try using some special CSS media types (like definning some styles with display:none or color:#fff).
http://www.w3schools.com/CSS/css_mediatypes.asp
But even like this the user might simply press PrntScr :)
You may also intercept ctrl+P keystrokes, by using an onKeyDown event on the whole HTML body and stop the bubling, but it may not work the same cross-browser.
You may also deny right-clicking on the page by handling the onContextMenu event ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms536914%28VS.85%29.aspx )
Also, the questions should be rendered as images, or deny selecting text from the page so the user wont be able to copy/paste the questions in an email (http://www.dhtmlcentral.com/forums//archive/index.php/t-18008.html mmight help)