Category/Subcategory Level Permission
By stackideas newbie on Thursday, 10 September 2015
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Dear Tech Support,

Now that I have the basic structure of my site setup, I am starting to configure access levels for various things. Could you please help me understand how Category/Subcategory-level Permission under ED works?

It is not clear whether Permission set at the Category-level will cascade to the respective Subcategories like Joomla Core. Could you help clarify? I am hoping that it is because I will otherwise have to replicate the settings to many many items.

If ED is indeed set up not to cascade Category-level Permission, please guide me on how I could update the tables directly as it is not apparent to me after checking the tables for ED how the configurations for Permission are saved.

Thanks again for your support!
Hey there,

I am not really sure what you mean here but do you mean inheritance of permissions? Currently EasyDiscuss does not do that. If you want to manually run the SQL queries to insert all the acl for the category, you need to look into the table #__discuss_category_acl_map . The columns are explained below:

id - Auto increment value
acl_id - This is a foreign key to the table #__discuss_category_acl_item.id
category_id - The category id
content_id - Joomla user group id
type - This should just be 'group' if you do not want to assign single user permissions
status - This should just be 1
Mark
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Friday, 11 September 2015 01:46
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Hi, Mark, I think I understand how this is configured. Let me give that a try and update you on the outcome. Thanks!
stackideas newbie
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Monday, 05 October 2015 08:28
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Hi there,

You are most welcome
Do let us know how it goes.
Sam
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Monday, 05 October 2015 10:48
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