ACL, actions and user groups.

[diego88]

Hi,
I'm developing an extension for joomla 1.6 but I have some problems.
I need to add new user groups and new actions during installation of my component. I think I can do that with some statements in a XML installation file but I can't find any information about this.
I saw action.xml file but I can't understand what I can do with this file.

Can you help me?


thanks in advance!

[malaiselvan]

You need to define the permission types in access.xml and you need to implement that in your view.html.php on every view.

Refer here

[diego88]

I read that page and I tried to create an access.xml in my component but seems not work.

this is my access.xml:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<access component="com_area_strumentale">
        <section name="component">
                <action name="com_area_strumentale.mantainer" title="JACTION_MNT" description="JACTION_MNT_COMPONENT_DESC" />
        </section>
</access>

I can't understand why this action is not in joomla ACL manager after component installation.
Can you help me?

[malaiselvan]

Have you created the config.xml file for your component? Refer the same page and create a config.xml.

Once you include the rules inside your config.xml you need show the parameters icon in the view.html.php

JToolBarHelper::preferences('com_helloworld');

You can see the component preferences where you can set the access permission.

Once you define the permission you need to use JAccess/getActions to determine the permissions for the current user

[diego88]

ok! now it works!
I didn't create config.xml.

thank you very much!