Hello Richard,

I am sorry but currently the tags doesn't have it's own access level. We might add this in the future but as of now, it's not possible to restrict tags to specific users.

Sorry if my initial post was not clear Mark, I am not looking for a separate access level for tags or to restrict tags to specific users, only to remove the tags that are being displayed with 0 posts from the tag listing in the toolbar that are shown in addition to the (correct) tags with posts.

There is currently an option in Features in workflow to Hide Empty Categories, but an option to Hide Empty Tags (Y/N) is what I am looking for (or something similar).

The tags in the EasyBlog toolbar listing are working correctly by showing tags with the number of posts that match the categories that are allowed to be viewed by the user. However the listing also shows all the other tags available with a 0 beside them, because the user is not allowed to view the posts in the categories associated with those tags. If the tags with 0 beside them were not visible, it would solve the problem and make the EasyBlog toolbar listing perfect.

Hello Richard,

I am sorry but this is currently not possible. You can however customize this by editing the theme file /components/com_easyblog/themes/default/blog.tagcloud.php .

Thank you Mark, I have tried to customize the file to obtain the correct result of hiding tags with a zero post count, but my conditional coding is not great and I have been unsuccessful.

I tried variations of the code (in lines 4-6 below) at the top of the file in between the script tags::

EasyBlog.ready(function()

{

	eblog.tags.search.init();

	if ($('#tags ul li').post_count < 1) {

        $('#tags').hide();

    }

});

I know I am doing something wrong, perhaps it is a simple addition to the php code on line 48 at the start of the tag listing area.

Hello Richard,

Kindly please understand that we will not be able to provide any more customizations as we have been bogged with users trying to request too much customizations. I will be able to help you out just this once. Download the attached file and upload it into /components/com_easyblog/themes/default/ and it will only display tags that are used.

In the future, if you do need customization, please write to us at https://crm.stackideas.com/staff/ and request for a quote. I do think that this would be more appropriate so that it would be fair for everyone.

Thanks for understanding.

Not a problem Mark, thank you for your help.

You are most welcome Does the file work?

Perfect thank you, the code just after line 48 did the trick.

The tag list now accurately reflects the category viewing access for the user (see image below) compared to before when all 30 of my tags were shown (see image in post above).

The toolbar output for blog posts (home icon on left), categories, tags and archive as well as the rss feeds from that output now all reflect the category viewing access for the user perfectly.

I know the category, tag and archive modules will need similar adjustments but there should be enough code examples in the toolbar files for me to update the modules until they are officially updated in a future release.

The tag ACL fix just makes the already excellent EasyBlog component so complete and flexible, as it is not only about controlling visibility of output but making sure visitors/members are not even aware of output they should not see even though they cannot access it. We have fundraising available to all but iGaming is for over 18 only and it is important we get it right.

Thank you again, I really appreciate the 'extra mile' in support.

Thanks for the heads up on this Richard