Hello Andrew,

I am really sorry for the delay of this reply as it is a weekend for us here. It looks like the category access did not allowed any user groups to view this category items.

I have configured it for you as you can see here, http://screen.stackideas.com/2015-01-24_0345.png and it is showing up for these user groups now

Thanks for that. One concern though. That category was only meant for internal use, people who are part of the Jomsocial group 'Rebel Team'. Same with the Jomsocial group 'Rebel Community' and the EasyDiscuss category with the same name.

When I just checked though, I could see both EasyDiscuss categories and view their content. Then I had a look at the category settings but could no longer find the Jomsocial groups to assign to the equivalent EasyDiscuss categories.

What worries me even more is that after I assigned the administrator and super administrator group to the 'Rebel Team' EasyDiscuss category, the discussions still showed on the frontend without being logged in.

I've contacted Jomsocial about this problem but they said that it's not their fault that EasyDiscuss ACL doesn't see the Jomsocial groups and cannot assign them to the EasyDiscuss categories. They reckon you might have a plugin that enables EasyDiscuss for that.

Hello Andrew,

EasyDiscuss does not read the groups in JomSocial. It reads the Joomla user groups in Joomla. In other words, if you want the category to only be accessible by specific users on the site, you would want to create a new user group in Joomla and assign the users that you want in this particular user group.

To create a new user group in Joomla, http://site.com/administrator/index.php?option=com_users&view=groups

Tried that. I assigned the editor, publisher, administrator and super administrator group to the 'Rebel Team' category in EasyDiscuss, but the discussions still showed on the frontend without being logged in.

And I'm now getting this error message when opening the EasyDiscuss ACL Manager:

http://awesomescreenshot.com/0b549hk2b8

Hello Andrew,

Sorry but I really have no idea what you did and not sure how to reproduce this error. This is what you need to do:

1. Create a new Joomla user group on the site called "Rebel Team"

2. Assign the users that you want in this new user group "Rebel Team"

3. On the category acl page, add the "Rebel Team" group into "Who can view discussions in this category".

That's a shame. One of the selling points of EasyDiscuss is that it offers a degree of integration with Jomsocial. It would be helpful if it was able to access Jomsocial user groups for its category access settings like Kunena.

The fact that EasyDiscuss doesn't support Jomsocial groups means that I have to double-manage the users to be assigned to those categories. I already have to add those users to Joomla groups such as editor, publisher and administrator. I would like all three of those categories to be able to view and access the 'Rebel Community' EasyDiscuss category, and administrators the 'Rebel Team' category too.

Btw, when I tried assigning those mentioned Joomla groups in the ACL manager to restrict access to my 'Rebel Community' and 'Rebel Team' discussion categories. However, I can still view and access those categories and its discussions without being logged in.

Hello Andrew Winkler,

Sorry for late reply to this,

I have tried to access in your Joomla backend, but it seems like you provided that login credential is not working.

By the way, If I'm not getting wrong your meaning here, you would like to allow this 3 user group (editor, publisher and administrator) able to access this 2 categories right?
- Rebel Community
- Rebel Team

I've updated the login credentials. Thanks.

I want the joomla groups editor,publisher, administrator, and superadministrator to have sole access to easydiscuss category 'Rebel Community'.

And I want the joomla groups administrator and superadministrator to have sole access to easydiscuss category 'Rebel Team'.

What I mean by 'sole access' is this: I want them to be the only users who can see the category and the discussions contained in it.

Hello Andrew Winkler,

Thanks for getting back to us, it seems like you provided that latest updated of your login credential is still not working.

Is it possible create another Super User account so that we can take a look of your Easydiscuss category setting?

I've reentered the support password. Please try again. If you still have problems please skype me on rebel_of_oz