Question User Groups, User Group Privileges, ACLs

Hello,

This kind of things can be managed by Joomla! 1.6 ACL, but this is planned to be in Kunena but not in K1.6.

I'm switching from a different forum type to Joomla with Kunena, but can't find (maybe it doesn't exist?) a feature to hide boards to only a set group of users.
Mainly 16+ content. There's just some content kids shouldn't be seeing. Is there something I overlooked, or is this a mod I'll have to install?

Just wanted to share my experience with everyone. I was able to setup Custom User Groups with no hacks, and have everything appear to work perfectly with assigning different groups of users access to privileged forums.

I used Jxtended Libraries and Control Extension from Content Manager extention. www.theartofjoomla.com/extensions/content-manager.html I did not even had to install the content manager itself, just the two supporting components. It even allows users to be part of more that one group.

I read this whole thread and the theme seems to be that its not possible, its not possible, its not possible. My method actually seemed very simple. Am I missing something?

Alex

G'day, alexey91, and welcome to Kunena.

Throughout the course of this topic I'm fairly sure that I've written that implementing customised access control, specifically as far as Kunena is concerned, is not natively possible with Joomla but that it is possible if users are prepared to invest time and/or money in obtaining a third-party solution. What we have not yet seen, though, is a worked-through example of implementing a third-party extension with Kunena.

The Content Manager extension that you referred to is for Joomla articles; this extension has also been in beta for about 14 months. Both of these factors cast some doubt over whether that product would be viable for Kunena. The Content Manager extension relies upon JXtended Control component which has been retired by JXtended .

i have something similar on my site, we have a pseudo military organization (video game) so we have sections that are for officers only.

As of the current version of Joomla (1.5), the only built-in way to do this with Kunena is with the front end ranks. Most of your users are at the rank of Registered. There's also editor, publisher and something else. You can set certain sections/categories as being visible to only editors and above. My officers are all publishers.

There might be a way to use a mod to give you an Access Control List (ACL) which will allow you to have greater control over permissions. i haven't used any of those so i'm guessing.

Joomla 1.6 will have ACL built-in, and Kunena will build on that giving you the ability to create groups with detailed privileges.

Attachment 1 shows that some cats and sects are viewable by publishers and above. Registered user don't even see them listed. It's like they don't exist.

Attachment 2 shows a few users as publishers and some as registered.

In attachement 3 you see where to make someone a higher rank. Note that this necessarily gives them some other front end powers. Editors can change articles. Publishers can make them display on your site. And so on.

Hope that helps!

Nihil wrote: As of the current version of Joomla (1.5), the only built-in way to do this with Kunena is with the front end ranks. Most of your users are at the rank of Registered. There's also editor, publisher and something else. You can set certain sections/categories as being visible to only editors and above. My officers are all publishers.

Let's not confuse Kunena forum ranks with Joomla user types. Kunena forum ranks (like "fresh boarder" "senior boarder", etc.) have no effect on anything.

What Nihil was referring to are Joomla user types, e.g. registered users, authors, publishers, etc.

These concepts are explained in Sections, Categories, sub-Categories (Part 1) and Sections, Categories, sub-Categories (Part 2) - advanced setup for special groups in the companion Wiki site.