Hi Tom, I have a solution to the being able to view and search but not add or delete.

Can we not disable the display of the add and delete buttons, and leave it at that for now ? Thats seems to be the simplest route.

I've used it before on other projects and you cant click a button thats not there. LOL.

You can remove any buttons from the template, web/staff/tpl.(table-name).search.inc.php but some people know how to execute the backend code without buttons. So, you should first disable the backend code.