Question [Merged topic] Advanced Joomla ACL options: NOIX and Kunena

I am investigating how to control user access to forums based upon a users groups.

I am using NOIX ACL 2.0.6 joomlacode.org/gf/project/noixacl/

I have set up my demo site at: blueflyingfish.no-ip.biz/joomla15/

It works!

I created user groups and grant members of that user group to Kunena forums.

Great work Kunena!

ewm

Hi

I nead to restrict access for a certain group of users to only some forums not all in my forum

Is it possible to achive in Kunena, the easyest way would be to make a new user gropu in joomla but you can't make a new custom group in an easy way, I can't find some free component to achive this.

Any help yould be very aprriceated.

goo to Forum Administration --> Select Category / Forum (or create a new Category ) --> Forum advanced configuration

You can restrict forums to certain Joomla groups. For example, you can restrict the ability to read (as well as write) topics in a forum to, say, registered users. In this way you can prevent guests browsing some topics but still allow them to browse others.

Similarly, you can further restrict certain forums to authors/editors/publishers, if you like. Kunena has this ability (that is what etusha referred to in his message) and it's explained in detail in the documentation Wiki .

Until Joomla 1.6 becomes available, and Kunena 2.0 after that, there's no built-in way to isolate forums for other, user-defined groups. We have discussed several ideas for defining your own groups (if you bothered to search the subject) and here are two examples:

• Custom permissions
• Joomla ACL Hack for user groups + Kunena Inherits the groups without any modification!

Sozzled thanx for your answer, ver informative

I found a component that alows you to create a new group in joomla

the component can be found here www.theartofjoomla.com/extensions/control.html

I installed it and it works withowth coding, the only thing that i dont know is what permisions has users in that new group because I cant find where can i set permisions I can only create a group. But for now that is what I neaded, with the new group created I can isolate forums to that group in kunena.

I have found this post concerning user rights in Joomla & Kunena but the links to the instructions lead nowhere. Does anyone know where I can locate the instructions or if there is an extension that does the same function?

Thanks in advance