Remove Topic Toolbar from certain categories

[whitts]

Hello,
Is there a way to remove the topic toolbar from certain categories? The bar at the bottom that shows New Topic, Topic Tools, Sort by etc?

I have a few categories that have sub categories, i only want people to be able to post, see that bar etc in the sub categories, not the main one. I tried adjusting privileges but that bar still shows even if they cant post to it.

Thanks,

[pichalite]

@whitts you don't expect to have any topics in those categories?

[whitts]

@pichalite Nope.. The users cannot post to the main category just the sub categories.. So i just though that those buttons would confuse people since they dont do anything anyway... (I made a mistake on my original post... New Topic doesnt show since it is disabled for registered users via privileges but the rest of the toolbar (Ignore, Sort by) and the banner: "There are no topics in this category.
Why don't you try posting one? " still shows when i dont think it should. Thanks,

[MJ]

I'm also looking for this.

[pichalite]

@whitts @MJ you can edit the template to make it work

https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-theme-persona/blob/master/templates/category.tpl#L7

enclose the DIV at this line with this

<!-- IF topics.length --> <!-- ENDIF topics.length -->

To remove the no topics in this category message... delete the lines 27 - 31

https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-theme-persona/blob/master/templates/category.tpl#L27

[whitts]

@pichalite Thanks.. Is there a way to specify category ids in the if statement since i cant use the topics count because I have several other categories that are currently empty that users need to post to.

[pichalite]

@whitts Oh yes... forgot about that.

Move the IF condition at this line to cover the DIV tag at line 17
https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-theme-persona/blob/master/templates/category.tpl#L8

If you remove the "Create Topics" privilege then the toolbar will be hidden. It will be visible for Admins though.

[whitts]

@pichalite Thanks