setting up new Viewing Access Levels

[gilbertstudios]

perhaps i'm missing something here...

i want to create a few new Viewing Access Levels to restrict viewing access to several categories and articles.

...just using one as an example...

i created a new "Teams" user group (under Registered) and a "Teams" viewing access level (assigned to Administrator, Teams and Super Users), and then assigned the "Teams" category to the new Teams access level.

(...everything else...the article and menu options themselves are set to Public for simplicity. i was thinking it would be simplest to control it all within the category, and assign the articles to the particular categories... is this not the best way?)

logging in as my super user admin, i cannot see the article...! it just displays.... "You are not authorised to view this resource"

if i change the category access to "registered" or "super users", then i can see it just fine... but put it back to "Teams" and i get the error again.

(again note -- i even specifically have "super users" selected in the "Teams" viewing access level also!)

something isn't adding up.

what am i missing?

thank you so much,

[Jay44]

Hi Gilbertstudios

I have found your post because I am experiencing the same issue I think.

I seem to have read that "viewing access" is *not* inherited, and so if I added my super user to the new group based on "registered" then they can see the restricted article.

Like you, if I change the articles access level to "Registered" then the Super User can see it without being *in* the group Registered. The newly created group, has Registered as a parent.

It seems wrong to me that a Super User is restricted from viewing anything.

??

Can an expert please explain what we have missed?

Jay