Question User Groups, User Group Privileges, ACLs

The access control mechanisms that I was referring to relate to J! 1.5. K 1.6.2 does not utilise the native ACL features of J! 1.6. It is expected that K 1.6.3 will be the first version that will utilise fully all the native features of J! 1.6.

Although users can install K 1.6.2 under J! 1.6, we are aware that there are several problems and these are being looked at now.

Is it possible to set up forums so that they can be viewed publically and browsed by search engines and yet you must be registered to post?

Hello,

You can let public access so google and users will be acces to it, or set for registred users only and only users registred can see topics/messages.

ACL groups and user groups are very different things, they may have a few things in common, but it really depends on the purpose of a the extension. This does not exclude the fact that we could establish a relationship between the two. It would be great if Kunena would allow us to have ACL and functionality permissions fine tuned for unlimited user groups. Then we could relate some Joomla user groups with Kunena user groups.

Just to clarify the issues. You can have public access (and you can only allow registered users the ability to post messages) which is a standard feature of Kunena.

This is exactly how the forum at www.kunena.org is set up. This is also the default configuration setting.

Let me clarify, Kunena has 5 levels of user permissions.

Site Administrator
Global Moderator
Moderator
User
Guest

It would be great if we could create our own with their own permission sets based on role. I might have one type of moderator focused on certain activities that I necessarily do not want another moderator to do. Or I want a special type of user outside a regular user. This is not only about ACL, but the ability to control fine tuned options.