Role permission to prevent user from viewing GF help

Hi folks.

I use the Members plugin to manage roles/permissions for users. GF already hooks into this pretty nicely but I'd like to be able to stop some users from seeing 'Help' under the main 'Forms' admin menu item. I find the GF Help useful, but to a user that only needs to read/edit entries (not embed forms or learn about hooks) it's just confusing code (and we all know how much certain users hate seeing code).

Does anybody know of a way to do this or can we have it added in a future release?

Cheers.

Splendid.

[does celebratory dance]

Wow, was just searching for the same thing! Search by Tags for-the-win!

The in-depth help/faq section is a little much for the non technical client. If you host a client on multisite, you can tuck it in to the if(current_user_can("install_plugins") on line 451 of gravityforms.php.

Instead of this:

//if(!function_exists("is_multisite") || !is_multisite() || is_super_admin())
        if(current_user_can("install_plugins")){
            add_submenu_page($parent_menu["name"], __("Updates", "gravityforms"), __("Updates", "gravityforms"), $has_full_access ? "gform_full_access" : "gravityforms_view_updates", "gf_update", array("RGForms", "update_page"));
            add_submenu_page($parent_menu["name"], __("Add-Ons", "gravityforms"), __("Add-Ons", "gravityforms"), $has_full_access ? "gform_full_access" : "gravityforms_view_addons", "gf_addons", array("RGForms", "addons_page"));
        }

        add_submenu_page($parent_menu["name"], __("Help", "gravityforms"), __("Help", "gravityforms"), $has_full_access ? "gform_full_access" : $min_cap, "gf_help", array("RGForms", "help_page"));

    }

You'd do this:

//if(!function_exists("is_multisite") || !is_multisite() || is_super_admin())
        if(current_user_can("install_plugins")){
            add_submenu_page($parent_menu["name"], __("Updates", "gravityforms"), __("Updates", "gravityforms"), $has_full_access ? "gform_full_access" : "gravityforms_view_updates", "gf_update", array("RGForms", "update_page"));
            add_submenu_page($parent_menu["name"], __("Add-Ons", "gravityforms"), __("Add-Ons", "gravityforms"), $has_full_access ? "gform_full_access" : "gravityforms_view_addons", "gf_addons", array("RGForms", "addons_page"));
        add_submenu_page($parent_menu["name"], __("Help", "gravityforms"), __("Help", "gravityforms"), $has_full_access ? "gform_full_access" : $min_cap, "gf_help", array("RGForms", "help_page"));
        }

That said, I don't advocate changing core code. I think Carl's hand would come out of the monitor and slap us across the face if we did.

I'll think of a better way...

A better way, without touching core files, is to disable it on a per-site basis using the theme's function.php

add_action( 'admin_menu', 'eyecool_remove_menus', 999 );

function eyecool_remove_menus() {

	remove_submenu_page( 'gf_edit_forms', 'gf_help' );

}

This removes it for everyone. And if you change themes, remember to add the function to your new theme.

@eyecool

"A better way, without touching core files, is to disable it on a per-site basis using the theme's function.php"

Your code snippet works like a charm - much appreciated!!

eyecool's code is exactly what I arrived at myself, however it's not working for me.

I agree that this should have its own capability, but regardless, I'm fine with removing via plugin. The problem is the plugin isn't removing it for me ... gravity forms 1.6.2

Anything change that would make this snippet not work anymore?

EDIT: resolved.
Since I also remove the ability to generate new forms, the slug for me was different (I had to use gf_entries)

Is there a way to remove the Help submenu regardless of what other capabilities I've removed from users on various sites? ...I provide my own help ;)

Thanks!