Welcome to the Compass Designs website, powered by Joomla 1.5! The goal of this new site is to be the place to bookmark if you are looking for quality Joomla templates, tutorials, news and tips.OK, so its not quite ACL as most people think of it, but a feature that was in 1.0 has found its way back into the 1.5 series. A handy little trick using authors.
In Joomla 1.0, Front End authors had the feature that they could edit their own content articles. This meant they could submit content, get it published and then go back and edit if needed. This was great for organizations like schools who might have each teacher maintain their own page (for example).
It seemed that this feature had been lost in 1.5. I had tested as far as RC 4 and Authors could not edit their own articles. This was a shame as it was a crude form of ACL.
Playing around with 1.5.3, it seems that this feature of Authors has found its way back in somewhere along the way. This is great news as it was a feature I found myself getting clients to use alot.
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Joomla Desinger Perth
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| Joomla is an awesome tool. I've been using it since it was Mambo. I'm so surprised that better user management and ACL has not been implemented. It is the number one reason that I have been contemplating other CMS packages. On at least one occasion I lost a client to another developer using Drupal due to user management functionality. |
Michelle Myers
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ACL is going to be implemented in 1.6, but to what extent I don't know. Here is a great discussion on the subject from the Joomla forum with several posts by Andrew Eddie, Development Coordinator: http://forum.joomla.org/viewto...7&start=60 I believe I actually first found out about the 1.6 white papers on this site! Thank you, Barrie, for all of your great articles! |
Steven Pignataro
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Joomla! 1.5.x does lack the sense of ACL - 'corePHP' Development team has taken ACL to where it should be and will continue to provide quality products such as our new Community ACL product. With our newest release - Community ACL (herein known as cACL) is a powerful addition to Joomla! 1.5.x enabling you to have full and complete control over your users Access Levels. cACL features include: -- Ability to define access to Sections / Categories / Articles -- Ability to define access to Components - frontend and backend -- Ability to define access to modules - frontend and backend -- Ability to define access based on URL key values such as task=edit. -- Ability to have a multi-site sync so that you can have a master site and sync with your sub sites. -- Ability to sync with Community Builder ....and much much more. To find out more about the cACL visit: http://www.corephp.com or go directly to: Single Site License http://www.corephp.com/store/page,shop.product_details/flypage,shop.flypage/product_id,31/category_id,3/manufacturer_id,0/ Server License http://www.corephp.com/store/page,shop.product_details/flypage,shop.flypage/product_id,32/category_id,3/manufacturer_id,0/ --Steven Pignataro |
Harrold Swalve
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Hi there Barrie, After your comments about more rights for authors in 1.5.3 i decided to upgrade one of my development sites from 1.5.2 to 1.5.3 immediately. Unfortunately till now i haven't found the mentioned changes through which I can give authors editing rights yet. Any chance you can point me in the right direction? Cheers |
Michelle Myers
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| Ray, this is the first sentence from Wikipedia (a good source for almost any definition): "In computer security, an access control list (ACL) is a list of permissions attached to an object. The list specifies who or what is allowed to access the object and what operations are allowed to be performed on the object." Basically many Joomla! super administrators want to be able to assign articles or whole categories or sections to an author, publisher, or administrator. |
Administrator
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@Harrold You shouldn't need to do anything. When I tested it, if I was an author, the little edit icon was there when I logged into the front end. Remember, its only their own articles..... |
Harrold Swalve
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Hi, I already noticed, i forgot to look a bit further, I added the test article to the front page and didn't see the edit icon there. Obviously i forgot to check out the actual article page. Unfortunately, these changes still aren't adequate enough for my recent project. I need to find a way to restrict publishing acces for authors to specific sections. perhaps the post mentioned earlier about the corphp might be the tool i need. I'll check it out i guess. |
Michelle Myers
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I found another option that you may want to compare to CorePHP. CorePHP does make changes to the Joomla! source code. Not that it is necessary a bad thing, but I still think that if you can accomplish what you want with a component, then that may be your best route. From the reviews and the information on the website, I am very impressed. Here is a link to the reviews in extensions directory at Joomla.org: http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,2587/Itemid,35/ Only one negative review and it is obvious that the person leaving the review did not try to get help. Other reviews rave about the fantastic support, and it looks like they have video tutorials on the website that have been added recently! If I needed this for a client, I would not hesitate to try it. |
Harrold Swalve
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Hi there Michelle, Unfortunately, JUGA doesn't do the trick. I already bought it and tested it. I checked out every single post on the forum till i found a response where it is stated that it isn't able to do what i require. JUGA gives you the opportunity to decide which content is available to which access level, you can also create more different authorization levels and even more. Unfortunately, what i need is a tool/component/plugin which gives me control on the other side. I need to create three different authorization levels and restrict acces for those levels when adding articles. For example: Authors will only see the sections 1,2, and 3 when adding an article. Publishers will see sections 1,2,3,4,5 when adding an article. This simply can't be achieved through JUGA. Other suggestions are welcome. |
Michelle Myers
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Ah... you and I are wanting the same thing. I had not read into it closely enough. I knew I am not able to pay for anything at this time since it is just a project for my daughter and her friends, so I didn't bother reading a lot. I want them to be able to publish content without approval, but only to their own category and I want to retain the ability to remove anything. I am trying to get them off of MySpace. Feel free to email me directly (click on the url link and fill out the form on the contact page) with anything you find. I am also hoping to assist with getting her school website converted and ACL would be very helpful with that as well. I had read that the target release of 1.6 is in August, so we may not have to wait long.  |
Harrold Swalve
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Well Michelle, To be honest with you, i decided to stop my search. I had a long talk with one of my developers and next week we're gone start trying to write the neccesary adjustments ourselves. Not sure yet if we will succeed but if we do, I'll tell you all about it. |
Steven Pignataro
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Harrold, Search no further as Community ACL is what it really is. It is a complete solution for the lack of true ACL. We have provided you the true power behind the wheel. To demo the product email me at steven@corephp.com and I will send a trial for you to play with to see if it suites your needs. I would love to say - go for it and begin writting it - but at the same time - I am a firm beleiver that if someone else has already done it - by golly gee - why not investigate that and utilize it. Community ACL is not JUGA - it is not jACL PRO - it is far from being like any of them. A matter of fact if I where to class the products I wouldnt even put Community ACL in the same category as the above products. The reason why is because the power we have provided to you as a end user and the power we will continue to provide to you as a end user as the product developers further down the road from our user feedback. At any rate - I will assure you that Community ACL will solve most if not all of your ACL concerns. Kindest regards, --Steven Pignataro |
Steven Pignataro
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@Michelle, I would like to be honest and do pardon me for being harsh towards any developers (as I am one myself) but dates are so very loosely. Joomla! 1.5 was to be released about a year ago, if not more. I do not forsee Joomla! 1.6 till early next year as there is still alot of work on Joomla! 1.5 to be done. Just thought I would mention this. Kindest regards, --Steven Pignataro |
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