Question User Groups, User Group Privileges, ACLs

please please please use the search before asking questions, this subject has been covered many times.

IN SHORT:

J1.5x and K1.5x do not yet support ACLs ( access control lists ) and that is what you are going to need for what you are trying to do but in J1.6 and K2.0 (long way off) ACLs will be added so that restrictions can be better added to who can see and access each catagory of the forum, this includes give certain users extras over standard users.

THE LONG ANSWER:

www.kunena.com/forum/132-common-question...it=10&start=10#23209

Even if you had searched " users groups " you would have got the same information post, so your logic is flawed and funny how you got your answer from me and not a dev here, so i guess giving you the information you need is being arrogant. The fact you clearly have not even bothered to read these forums and just expect others to do your work for you, that would make you either lazy or arrogant enough to think you are owed something, just caused YOU installed a FREE peice of software.

FYI im just a user here, but i help because im not selfish and like helping others in this community and not just taking from it.

Excuse me for interrupting this discussion. Before we get off-topic and go off into unexplored territory about making assumptions or implying arrogance on the part of those who post here, I should like us to keep the discussion relevant to the topic.

Although the point may not have been clearly made, these kinds of questions are often asked and they are difficult for new users to understand.

The basic procedures for creating "special" classes of discussion categories in Kunena are covered in the following Wiki articles and I suggest you familiarise yourself with them. They may provide the necessary information you seek:

• Sections, Categories, sub-Categories (Part 1)
• Sections, Categories, sub-Categories (Part 2) - advanced setup for special groups

As far as extending the existing mechanisms are concerned, please read the earlier posts in the discussion topic which I have merged this one with.

Thank you.

That's a good question, Nihil, and Cerberus' answer is also a good one.

The problem is caused by the lack of features in Joomla 1.5. These features have been extended by third-party add-ons that you can obtain from the Joomla Extensions Directory . Most of the solutions that I have seen are provided as "commercial" extensions - that is, you have to pay for them.

Until Joomla 1.6 become public you will need some third-party extension to enhance Joomla 1.5. That pretty much sums it up for the time being.

Kunena will continue to use whatever is available to it through Joomla or by whatever other means you have extended it.

Can you suggest any good ACL plugins which will work with Jomsocial and Kunena?

Hi,

I find the ACL of Joomla 1.5 extremely limiting. It only allows a certain set of categories and members can be a member of only one.

I have forums which are accessible to only a handful of members(Currently in SMF), but these members do not relate to any of the user groups within Joomla.

For instance I have a "S member" which gives them access to a specific forum, however the majority of these users are only authors for Joomla as are most of the users on my site, and i need them to stay as Authors.

I have 2 hidden forums with users granted specific case by case membership to the forum.

Given ACL in true form will not be in Joomla until 1.6 I was wondering if there was a way to grant access to view forums only if I specifically give you permissions instead of having them be a member of a specific user group.


Is this possible within the system as it is so far?