Hey there,

I need to inspect the way you setup your menu but if your menu's are all based on the authors, here's what you can try.

1. Go to Settings > SEO > Advanced
2. Under the option "Use Routing From", choose "Author Menu" instead.

Hi Mark,

thanks for the reply. This has certainly changed the behaviour, but it is still working funny/incorrectly.

I set the Use Routing from "Author Menu", and this has resulted in:

in the public one - with guest ACL (single author blog)
* I can now access the public blog entries
* I cannot access the links to the categories
* the tool bar home button does not work

In the members area (set-up as registered ACL) who should be capable of accessing all blogs (frontpage - multi author blog)
* i can access the categories
* the toolbar navigation works
* the public blogs cannot be accessed as the (hyper links) are containing the base of the public URL (menu link) in stead of the member url (menu link)

And as the public url to the public blog has a guest ACL, access is denied.

Alternative
The reason i have set it up in this way is to avoid member blog entries to be posted on Facebook, as they are premium contents. As The ACL does not work on blog level, i tried to enforce it via menu access. If i can avoid this in another way, I do not have a reason to use the double blog set-up. And i guess this problem would disappear.
Maybe this offers another way to resolve this issue.

Dirk

Hm, I would strongly advise you to use the category ACL to achieve this because this setup is pretty complicated and you wouldn't be able to achieve this with just the menu access level

Mark,

I do understand, but ACL does not work on blog level. that was my preferred solution, but any link to a blog is granted from the public level, even if the blog has a ACL set-up as restricted.
You can test this easily. Copy the url of a restricted blog into the browser, make sure you are logged out, but you can always access the blog.

So any suggestions on how to force blog level ACL support?

Dirk

In the category settings, you can define user group permissions. This would allow you to assign blog posts accordingly into categories.

Please view my screen shot here, http://screencast.com/t/Qr4O79nJs43z

Mark,

thanks for your prompt responses.

The issue I have is that the public blog is a kind of "sales" teaser for the premium contents. So the public blog entries do not belong into a single category, but are a cross section of blogs of all categories.

So category level ACL control is somewhat hard. Most of the blogs are premium contents and are not for guest viewing. So using category level ACL does not work that well.

I may try to assign the public blogs to multiple categories of which one of the categories is public accessible and the others are not. See if this works. This way I will need to be capable of listing only the blogs for that category or let the ACL mechanism filter the contents in public display.

Dirk

hey Dirk,

I am sorry for the delay of this reply,

Perhaps you can provide us one of the example blog post URL which you do not allow guest user able to access?

I will see if that is possible to set this access restriction through the single category menu item for Easyblog.

Also is it possible to assign your user account to have Super admin privileges? Because I can't login in your backend, this is what error I hitting now :

Warning

You do not have access to the Administrator section of this site.

Thanks for updating Dirk, glad that your issues are resolved now