Question User Groups, User Group Privileges, ACLs

i would like to have users with access or lack of access to this or that forum section based on grouping. Team A and B can access forum ONE. Team A can access forum TWO, but not forum THREE. Team B can access THREE but not TWO. Ideally, i'd want Team A to have it's own moderators.

Is this possible?

My current system for having a hidden section is to create a section that only moderators can see. But i'd like to give people access to a particular section without giving them the power to delete/modify other people's posts.

Thanks in advance!

Hello,

You need to change the usergroup in joomla!, by example set the users on author or publisher and set the specifics categories (sections) to allow only this king of usergroup.

It's the only way actually to realize what you want..

If i make Team A Authors and Team B Publishers, then yes, i could sort of do it. i think Joomla makes it so that Publishers are also Authors. Which breaks one of the requirements (keeping them from seeing each other's forum sections). It would also mean giving them power on the CMS side of the site, which i might not want to do.

i'll post this in the desired features area later.

i'd like to see user groups that are independent of forum user level and Joomla power level.

i want Alan to be able to read the section on Airplanes (but not Bikes). i want Bob to see the section about Bikes (but not Airplanes). i want Charlie to have access to both. i want to do this without allowing Bob and Alan to be Authors, Publishers or whatever.

The way to do this is groups. We have two groups: Air and Bikes. i add Bob to the Bikes group and Alan to the Air group and Charlie to both.

sigh or you could do a search on these forums for " ACL " OR " Access Control Lists " and then you will find a big explaination of your issue.

Cerberus,

It's arrogant assume i've ever heard of Access Control Lists in this context. The developer who posted above you didn't mention them either. i had no reason at all to connect groups (as they are called in MS domains and phpBB) to the Access Control List in Joomla (which i had never heard of before).

Had you looked at my post count you'd see that i'm new here. Had you looked at the first word of the title of this thread you'd see that i called myself a noob.

Here's how an adult would have posted:

What you want is an Access Control List (ACL). You can find out more about them at this link. They aren't supported by Joomla yet but might be in the next version.

Next time, keep the childish arrogance to yourself... or don't post.