Demo for Core Design Core Design File ACL (FACL) plugin. You can find the test account on frontpage.

Please read the tutorials first.

We created the following articles:

--- FACL (section - ID 11)
------ Test category 01 (category - ID 40)
------------ The New Joomla Security Strike Team (article - ID 146)
------------  Joomla Community Portal Online (article - ID 145)
------ Test category 02 (category - ID 41)
------------ What is the FTP layer for? (article - ID 147)
------ Test category 03 (category - ID 42)
------------ Support and Documentation (article - ID 149)
------------ Platforms and Open Standards (article - ID 148)

Our ACL root folder look like that:

--- groups (folder - groups container)
------ group01.group (file - groupname)
--------- 321 (content - userid > user1)
--------- 322 (content - userid > user2)
------ group02.group (file - groupname)
--------- 323 (content - userid > user3)

--- permissions (folder - permissions container)
------ 11 (folder - section ID)
--------- 40 (folder - category ID)
------------ group01 (file - groupname)
--------- 41 (folder - categry ID)
------------ 147 (folder - article ID)
--------------- group02 (file - groupname)

And the final permissions are:

• All groups have an access to the section FACL.
• group01 (user1, user2) can view all articles in Test category 01 category.
• group01 can't read the article "What is the FTP layer for?" (ID 147) because of there is the restriction for group02 only.
• user3 can view the article "What is the FTP layer for?" because is registered in group02 group.

Link to FACL section - visible for all users.
Link to "What is the FTP layer for?" article - visible for group02 (user3).