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arslan
arslan

Reputation: 585

ACL in joomla (access control list)?

would any one may please elaborate following statement bit further

"In this helloworld-example the actions to which access is 
controlled are divided in   three sections: at the component
level, the category level and the item level"

what is meant by component level access, category level access and item level access.

copied from

http://docs.joomla.org/J2.5:Developing_a_MVC_Component/Adding_ACL#Describing_the_actions_you_want_to_control_the_access_to

Upvotes: 1

Views: 94

Answers (1)

piotr_cz
piotr_cz

Reputation: 9608

It is the description of Joomla ACL waterfall hierarchy:

|- Global configuration
   |- Component level
      |- Component category level
         |- Item Level (in default extensions only content articles)

So by default Component inherits all permissions from Global configuration, Category inherits from Component and Item from a Category where's located.

You may overwrite any rules at any level and these propagate down to levels below:

  • If you disable edit rights in component configuration for Managers group, they won't be able to edit any items.
  • If you do it in category level, they won't be able to edit items in that category
  • Disable editing rights for item applies only to that item

Upvotes: 1

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