February 2011
Beginner to intermediate
416 pages
8h 45m
English
book
Joomla! 1.6: A User’s Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website, 3rd Edition
by Barrie M. North
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Appendix B. A Guide to Joomla! 1.6 ACL
One of the most talked-about features of Joomla 1.6 is the new Access Control Levels or ACL.
With the previous version of Joomla (1.5), if you wanted to give only a group of people, say a particular department in a company, the ability to edit a specific part of your site, you had to install a third-party extension.
Now the ability to give these permissions is in the default core of Joomla 1.6. Some examples of what ACL could do might be
• Give a single user permissions to edit a single article. (Joomla 1.5 could do this.)
• Give only two, or a group of people, permission to edit a single article. (Joomla 1.5 couldn’t this.)
• Allow a user permissions to add and edit articles, but only in one category. ...
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