Question User Groups, User Group Privileges, ACLs

Hello,

You can use some third party components to manage ACL in a better way in Joomla! 1.5 like :

Jxtended ACL
ArtofUer
NoixACL

Use ACL

tho i myself think it's a little bit confused...and has too many thingys (like...plg; mod...)
...and have not yet got the final result i was aiming to...making me give up on it

*a good and working tutorial by someone, would make a day for a bunch of people

I thougth about it but I don't know if there will not be any conflict with jomsocial

Hi All:

Is it possible to create a category or thread restricted and visible only to moderators and if so how?

Howard

There are several ways that you can achieve this.

One way is to give all your moderators Author privilege and then restrict access to the specific category to Authors and above. This technique is documented in Sections, Categories, sub-Categories (Part 2) - advanced setup for special groups

Of course, giving users Author privilege means that they have the ability to do other things on your website, too, which you may not want them to do.

A better way to achieve what you want is to implement an access control regime on your site. There are a number of third-party access control extensions for Joomla 1.5. J! 1.6 (when it sees the light of day) will have ACL features included as part of the core but, for J! 1.5, you need to install the software. K 1.6.1 allows you to use a couple of these additional Access Control List (ACL) products. The release notes for K 1.6.1 list the current ACL products that you can use with K 1.6.1.

The technique for using ACLs to define special categories (instead of Joomla user types) is much the same as the method described in the first link I showed in this message. One of these days we'll get around to updating that article.

Does this help?

Morten -

Were you able to accomplish your goal of only giving Premium members write-access? I'd like to do the same.

Thanks,
LGJoomla