Hello
1. FLEXIcontent
is for general usage for many different sites
2. FLEXIcontent
is closely tightened to Joomla article system thus that is why some of these fields exist or are required, e.g. Hiding the basic tab which contains category selection will make the form to fail to save unless you have preselected some category in the menu properties
3.
We have parameters to disable some of the features and shape the form, e.g. tags, e.g. use only 1 category (do not give users multi-categories permissions)
-- You are not supposed to modify the form directly unless you know you have good knowledge for PHP/programming, it is a complex form, you should rely on whatever is available via parameters
e.g. if you examine the form and have CSS knowledge you will see that you can hide first TAB using CSS only
Code:
#flexicontent ul.tabbernav > li:first-child {
display: none !important;
}
#fcform_tabset_0_tab_0 {
display: none;
}
About the autopublish message you can set a custom text !! of your own !! so you don't need to tamper the form for this either
-- but if you really wish to use template override then find this code
Code:
// Autopublishing new item regardless of publish privilege, use a menu item specific
// message if this is set, or notify user of autopublishing with a default message
if ( $isnew && $this->params->get('autopublished') ) {
$approval_msg = ...
$approval_msg = ...
$approval_msg = ...
$approval_msg = ...
}
...
and add
$approval_msg = '';
after the 4 $approval_msg = ...
but again you can avoid template override and set a custom message for autopublishing in menu parameters !!
Also helping you with such customizations is not possible due to our time restrictions (we can not provide this kind of customization support for free)
Remember some extensions do allow you to post bug-reports (not receive answers, you cannot post a bug report) unless you have bought a subscription
about buttons, just find the code that displays the buttons
and cut-paste at the end of the form,
makes some trials (undoing if you get it wrongly) and you will get it after a few tries, (e.g. button text to look is FLEXI_APPLY etc so it should be easy to locate the buttons block)
Regards