User Group's Admin Control Panel is Empty (no menu, no mods)

[alsage13]

I'm trying to give one of my user groups access to edit and add articles in the Joomla backend, however when I log in to the administrative backend the control panel is empty. Screenshot:


This particular user group is setup under the Public user group category.

The global configuration permissions are:


And the article permissions are:


I am completely at a loss for what's wrong. It's quite possibly some little setting I have wrong, but I couldn't find anything on the forum to answer my question. Any help is massively appreciated!

[ShMaunder]

Have you added the group to the 'Special' access level?

If you haven't, then do it. All backend modules require the 'Special' access level to display anything.

[alsage13]

Ok, I did that, but it then gave that user group access to everything like a super user, ignoring the permissions I'd previously given it. Do I have to now go in and change the permissions for all the components now that I've done this? Seems like there should be a better way...

[ShMaunder]

You need to take away those global configuration permissions. They only need "Admin Login" from it.

Edit: only the Global Permissions, not every component no

[alsage13]

I just figured out the better way I was looking for!

I had the permissions in the global configurations set to allow which was causing the open access (I somehow missed this step earlier). I changed them to inherit and then made the article permissions "allow" and now it works just how I wanted.

Thanks for the tip about the Special group, ShMaunder.