Question moving a forum

Hi all,

I need to restrict access to a Kunena forum on my organization's site to just nine people. As far as I can tell, under Joomla 1.5 there is no way to do this. EDIT: by which I mean while also allowing other registered users to access the site.

I have been asked whether it is possible to temporarily set up a Kunena forum on another server, restricted to these nine people.

When Joomla 1.6 is released and our site is updated with the proper ACL settings, I would like to move the forum back to the main site. Is it possible to move just a Kunena forum (ie, files and tables) from one host to another?

I notice that Akeeba offers an option for restricting files to be backed up. Could I use this to make a backup of just a Kunena forum and move it to another site?

Thanks for any ideas,

-Colin

Actually Kunena allows you to do this out of the box: just change users to be authors (or publishers). Then go to categories and set them to be authors only. Administrators will always have access to all categories.

I'm just going ACL integration with a few ACL components for J1.5, which will allow you to do just what you want to (except admins, who still have global permissions).. This feature will be in Kunena 1.6.1.

Matias, on our website, our registered users all have "author" rights, so they can upload files etc. So, I can't use the existing functionality.

If I understand you correctly, you are including some ACL features which will be available under Joomla 1.5? This is really fabulous news!! This will take the pressure off of me to upgrade to 1.6, with all of the expected problems with templates etc.

I have been asked by our organization to bring our Kunena forum back online, but I can't until some kind of ACL is available. I know I shouldn't ask, but I must: do you have an ETA for 1.6.1?

Thanks for the great work!

If your users are authors, make the special group Publishers, or backend Managers and they will separate from the rest.

I do need testers for the new feature and it's already implemented -- just in Kunena 1.7. But today I'm stuck with general support -- to find out which are the worst issues in K1.6.0.

fxstein wrote: If your users are authors, make the special group Publishers, or backend Managers and they will separate from the rest.

Hi fxstein,

I am not sure I completely follow you here.

As far as I can see in the category settings, you can only restrict Public, ie front-end access, to Registered, Author, Editor, and Publisher.

If I give the nine individuals Manager level access (which I can easily do), how restrict a given section/category of the forum (front end) to just Managers?




Thanks.