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Kunena 6.2.6 released
The Kunena team has announce the arrival of Kunena 6.2.6 [K 6.2.6] which is now available for download as a native Joomla extension for J! 4.4.x/5.0.x. This version addresses most of the issues that were discovered in K 6.1 / K 6.2 and issues discovered during the last development stages of K 6.2
Please use other categories for questions about problems that you may be having with your website.
Merged User Groups, User Group Privileges, ACLs
sozzled is right imo: you decide who can access a category and who cannot.
If you're using AlphaUserPoints, basing category access on user points might induce users to "spam around" just to get points; manual access management solves the whole problem.
How can you create category access based on alpha user points? I can use that for now if it's possible.
Setup permissions and categories for special groups[/i][/url] - it needs to be rewritten (forums = categories) but the general principles apply.
The problem is that I need to create another group other than whats available in the forum access. I dont want to give these users author or editor status.
Let's analyse these two statements:The problem is that I need to create another group other than whats available in the forum access. I dont want to give these users author or editor status.
Let us suppose you have two categories where users can view and/or post topics:
- Category A: The general, unrestricted category that is open to all registered users (maybe, even, guests can browse but messages but they have no posting rights)
- Category B: A restricted category that can only be accessed after a registered member has proven his/her "worth" (by attaining some "points" for argument's sake).
As you will see, from my generalised proposition the basis of the whole discussion essentially is based upon how you decide when a user is "worthy" enough.
But this also makes for other opportunities: why not give these "worthy" people Joomla author rights so that they may offer their own contributions to your website in other ways? Author rights mean that you could allow them to write articles (they won't appear unless you approve them) or you could restrict or enable other content on your site based on this additional privilege.
On the other hand, maybe you don't think that your users are worthy enough of that. That's your right, too.
However, getting back to the question of how you restrict Category B, in K 1.5 the only mechanism you have is Joomla author, editor, publisher and, unless, you can find a way to work around that then you're stuck and no amount of asking the question "How can I allow access to a category based on a points score" is going to give you a satisfactory answer.
Access to Kunena categories uses what's available in Joomla 1.5 - "author", "editor", "publisher", "manager", "administrator", "super administrator". Joomla 1.6 will introduce Access Control Lists.
Blue Eagle vs. Crypsis reference guide
Read my blog and
I guess it's worth checking it, at least.
Thanks!
I.E:
Team a only access thread A
Team B only access Thread B
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Is it possible to create a entirely new usergroup?
I've read the docs and haven't seen this mentioned. Also is it possible to allow only a certain usergroup access to a forum.
Thanks,