Hi Sam,

sorry for the delay in responding to this.

Chameleon does not currently have the ability to disable modules or module positions. That's something I have in mind for future development.

With regards to disabling particular components, what you no doubt want to achieve is that people trying to access one of those pages get an error message or are redirected to an error page. Also you might want to disable (hide) any/all menu items that point to that component.

To achieve this in Chameleon is easy:

1 - to redirect anyone trying to access a particular component, just include a check for that component using the "condition" side of a Chameleon rule. Then, the Succeed action will only by actioned when someone is trying to access a page with that component at the same time as any other conditions you put on the rule (e.g. time of day, browser type, etc).

In the Succeed action, just put in a redirect to an error page, either by URL or by menu item. You might want to set up a menu item containing the error message, on a hidden menu (that does not appear on a visible menu on the page).

2 - To prevent menu items from appearing that point to components that you want to "disable", simply select these menu items in the Succeed action of the rule, using the "Unpublish menus" control. You might want to do this after detecting mobile devices, for example.

I trust this helps,
Stephen

Edit: was able to achieve goal by disabling associated plugins.

While I have your attention, any suggestions on how to hide .jpegs when a rule succeeds?

Thank you. Being in CSS kindergarten, I enclosed the images with a div with an ID. Then I entered in raw css Type 1 (new to me)
#hidden {
display: none;
}

and nothing changed.
Sorry for the noob questions, but I guess everyone had to start somewhere.