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Sean Callagy
PostPosted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 11:31 am 
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Am trying to establish if Joomla core can be used to run a swim school website.

The intention is that teachers would create end-of-term reports for each student and parents would login to view / download them. Reports would accumulate over time thereby allowing parents track how their child is progressing and/or what issues they are struggling with from term to term.

I can imagine myself creating the following...

User > Parent > Smith Family
User > Parent > Jones Family

Category > Smith (containing articles on Smith 1, Smith 2, Smith 3 ete)
Category > Jones (containing articles on Jones 1, Jones 2, Jones 3 ete)

But... is there a way I can prevent the Jones Family from reading / viewing / accessing the articles intended only for the Smith Family?

Or would I need an extension like http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/access-a-security/site-access/frontend-access-control/9041 to do it for me (seems to fit the bill when it says "articles (specific articles)(hide article when user has no access)"

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Jay44
PostPosted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 11:49 am 
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My understanding is that the joomla 2.5 ACL (core) can do that exactly - you may like to buy the ACL Manager to assist in managing it all.

So read up on the ACL examples.

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Sean Callagy
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Thanks. That sounds promising. I'll do more research so.

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DavidBoggitt
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The core can do it. You will need to create a separate group for each individual as you can't assign permissions to users, only groups (a group can contain only one user, of course).

I would also (having had to set up some tricky permissions) strongly recommend this extension that sits on top of the J! ACL and makes it MUCH easier to manage.

http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions ... trol/19766

The extension ACL Manager mentioned above is excellent too.

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Thanks. That short explanation makes it sound quite straight forward for my scenario. Of course my scenario might grow complicated in time. So it is good to know there are two extensions I can choose from.

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They don't do the same job. I have ACL manager installed on every site I build and use Access Manager on the ones where I need to set frontend viewing rights to multiple accesslevels/usergroups (core J! can't do this at the moment).

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