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Posted on 08/02/10
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Joomla’s Weird User System…

I have been appointed as the Technical Director for the University of York TenPin Bowling Society, or just TenPin Soc. And we’ve been trying to get as much tech into it as possible; We’ve got Facebook, twitter, and a Joomla driven website.

So far I’ve embedded google calendars for events, meetings etc.

But I’ve been looking at creating user accounts, and making certain parts of the site hidden for certain users. So I thought Joomla must have some sort of user levels, right?

Well it does, but they’re very weird. Here’s a quick breakdown:

Normal Users:

• Guest – Can only view public items
• Registered – Can login, and view registered items
• Author – Can create articles, but not publish them, or edit published ones
• Publisher – Can publish articles
• Editor – Can edit any article

Administrators:

• Manager – Can perform basic tasks in the administrator interface
• Administrator – Can perform most admin tasks
• Super Administrator – Can do everything

Now this is a hierarchy so all editors can also publish, create, and view any page. All administrator accounts can log in to the normal interface, and count as being editors.

To restrict content, you can set pages to one of three access levels

• Public – Everyone can see
• Registered – Everyone but guests can see
• Special – Everyone but registered, and guests can see

As you can see, this can be annoying, there is no way of customising this yet. Although rumours of it in Joomla 1.6 … Fingers crossed.