Moving cobalt edit menu to header

You can't do it in the list, because this menu binding with each record in the list.

In full view you can use

$item->controls

to get that links.

If you look into default template of full article view, you can find where used this. We haven't some special code for this.

This list of links in this variable is already filtered for current user and consist actions only allowed for him. If you dont care about this you can create your own static links where will be dynamecally change only id of current record and return var, this id will be in the POST on page load.

There is no access to that menu from Joomla template. Only from Cobalt templates.

I wrote a javascript plugin that constructs its own menu from the available cobalt menu options and hides the cobalt menu when done.

This way I can customise the menu to make a better front end editing experience.

One more quesiton though, in front end you have 'delete' - is there any trash or recycle bin? Or are items gone for good? I've added a confirm script to stop accidental deletion but it would be even better if they were trashed instead of entirely removed.

There is audit log. If you eneable it article is deleted but you can restore it. Or change versions.

Sergey There is audit log. If you eneable it article is deleted but you can restore it. Or change versions.

That's great, can this be done from the audit log? Or somewhere else?

Yes. Enable Audit log in type paramters. Create link to audit log in frontend.