Special Access Level

BritishAgent · Post by **BritishAgent** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 1:08 am

What is the special access level for menus (i.e. Public, Registered, Special)?

How do I edit it?

Can I create any additional ones (such as for users designated as members)?

Post by **Geoff** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 5:48 am

BritishAgent wrote:What is the special access level for menus (i.e. Public, Registered, Special)?

Everygroup except public and registered
ref: http://docs.joomla.org/Starting_with_Jo ... omla.21.3F

BritishAgent wrote:How do I edit it?

There is no way to create additional access groups without modifying Joomla!'s core files.

BritishAgent wrote:Can I create any additional ones (such as for users designated as members)?

Using a 3rd party Group Access Extension (ex: JUGA, etc.)

ursulawest · Post by **ursulawest** » Wed May 06, 2009 3:16 pm

special i've heard refers to administrators only.

dhuelsmann · Post by **dhuelsmann** » Wed May 06, 2009 4:03 pm

ursulawest wrote:special i've heard refers to administrators only.

Sorry - what you heard was incorrect. Special is the group Authors and above.

howardj2 · Post by **howardj2** » Thu May 07, 2009 4:42 pm

I am having issues with the special group. When I assign someone admin or manager access, they are still not able to see things designated as "special only."

Any ideas?

howardj2 · Post by **howardj2** » Mon May 18, 2009 5:59 pm

howardj2 wrote:I am having issues with the special group. When I assign someone admin or manager access, they are still not able to see things designated as "special only."

Any ideas?

Anyone able to help me out? I have a site in which I want to have a "members only" and "officers only" section. I was planning on making all members "registered" by making one level up from public, but then all officers either managers or admins, depending on what i want them to do.

obviously my main admin account is a super admin and can see everything, but a dummy account i created as an admin can't see the things marked as special. So basically my idea is faltering, my confidence shot, and the whole premise of the site ruined....

unless someone can help. Thanks in advance.

dhuelsmann · Post by **dhuelsmann** » Mon May 18, 2009 6:29 pm

If your installation isn't functioning as described http://docs.joomla.org/ACL on that page then you could have a faulty installation.

dannygsam · Post by **dannygsam** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 7:36 am

I want only Admins to be able to access some modules. But if I assign Special still even authors and editors are able to view it. Any workaround?

yogi799 · Post by **yogi799** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 7:09 pm

Yup, same problem here, this sucks...

I make my web-registered users AUTHORS since I want them to create new articles, but then I wanted my special front-end account MODERATOR (Publisher) to have access to a special link which Authors cannot see... Not such way... My special link is seen by both, as someone mentioned above --> Authors and Above. So essentially it is kind of useless in my setup.

wizlord · Post by **wizlord** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 6:45 pm

Anyone found a workaround for that specific problem?

I also have a website where some modules must only be seen by admins and not authors.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

yogi799 · Post by **yogi799** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 6:56 pm

Does anyone know how to submit that to the dev core team? Are they working on this for the next major release of joomla?

dhuelsmann · Post by **dhuelsmann** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 7:05 pm

yogi799 wrote:Does anyone know how to submit that to the dev core team? Are they working on this for the next major release of joomla?

A preview of the fine granular ACL control to be available in 1.6 http://community.joomla.org/blogs/commu ... -wait.html

v3par · Post by **v3par** » Thu Nov 04, 2010 5:41 am

And I have a website where some modules must only be seen by admins and not authors. Is there any solution for this????????????????

jikanv · Post by **jikanv** » Fri Dec 31, 2010 10:45 am

I am using com_je_story with that registered users can submit articles

Daventown · Post by **Daventown** » Thu Jan 27, 2011 4:18 pm

I was having a simular problem with "special" permissions.
I'm using Joomla 1.5

Problem solved for me:

I assigned a module special permissions. With this in mind, I remembered that modules can be assigned certain pages. After assigning the page i wanted to this module, I then went to the "Menu" link and selected the menu link for that page and changed the "Access Level" to special.

This worked for me. I created a test account and gave the test account permissions as "registered" under the front end. This worked, I logged in as "test" and the menu on the left does not display the link to the page i want restricted, therefore not allowing registered accounts access to pages that I have assigned admins access to.

I hope this will help solve the problem for some of you. It may not solve the problem as within the group policy manager itself. But I belive this is the only use it was made for.

I have been using Joomla 1.5 for about a year now.

anant_mak5 · Post by **anant_mak5** » Wed Jan 04, 2017 7:47 am

In Joomla 3.6 and above, we can access user->Access Levels->Viewing Access Levels, here we can manage any 'Level Name' , user group access and even create new. Like - Public, Registered, Special, etc.

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