Remove "Add New" from back office Products

[beamer]

Prestashop vs 1.5.6

 

I am developing a shop that only sells virtual products and I have a rather unusual requirement.

 

I would like to remove the add new button from the back office admin catalog products page. This would force the catalog administrator to add a new product by using the duplicate product function. This is desirable since all the virtual products have at least  6 customizations and I need every product to have the same customizations.

 

I have tried to find the relevant file but without success, can anyone point me in the right direction as to which file I need to modify.

 

I did try and set the permissions for a catalog administrator to remove" add" Products but unfortunately this removed both the ability to add a new product and duplicate a product.

 

Any help would be gratefully appreciated.

Graham

[El Patron]

this may prove  useful, either modify or create a new profile and  turn disable 'add' in products.  note: i have not personally tried this but it might be something you could try

 

http://screencast.com/t/LLRheuqd3z

[beamer]

Hi thanks for the quick response. As I said in my original post I did try this but it also disables the duplicate product capability. I think i either need to modify the admin product page or add a new feature to permissions that distinguishes between add and duplicate.

 

If you can think of any other ways to achieve that would be great.

 

Graham

[Om Developers]

    -find below line in AdminProductsController.php:
     

  protected $tab_display_module;

        
    -and add below line after above line:

        protected $can_add_products = false;

    -find below lines:
   

public function postProcess()
    {
        if (!$this->redirect_after)
            parent::postProcess();

    
    and replace it with below:
 

  
    public function postProcess()
    {
        if (!$this->redirect_after)
            //parent::postProcess();
            
        if (!$this->can_add_products && $this->display == 'add')
            $this->redirect_after = $this->context->link->getAdminLink('AdminProducts');

        parent::postProcess();

    }
    

May be it works...

Thanks