Question

How do you disable the checkout functionality. It’s pretty useless in my case and the only way to check in is from backend. OpenGlobal didn’t work.

Answer 1

You can do it yourself in the backend: edit the file libraries/joomla/application/component/controllerform.php

remark the following lines the way I did:

     // Attempt to check-out the new record for editing and redirect.
/*      if ($checkin && !$model->checkout($recordId)) {
                // Check-out failed, display a notice but allow the user to see the record.
                $this->setError(JText::sprintf('JLIB_APPLICATION_ERROR_CHECKOUT_FAILED', $model->getError()));
                $this->setMessage($this->getError(), 'error');
                $this->setRedirect('index.php?option='.$this->option.'&view='.$this->view_item.$this->getRedirectToItemAppend($recordId, $urlVar));

                return false;
        }
        else {*/
                // Check-out succeeded, push the new record id into the session.
                $this->holdEditId($context, $recordId);
                $app->setUserState($context.'.data', null);
                $this->setRedirect('index.php?option='.$this->option.'&view='.$this->view_item.$this->getRedirectToItemAppend($recordId, $urlVar));

                return true;
//      }
}