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Figure 5: Additional profile fields
Tip: For better membership management functionality including extended registration form,
additional profile and registration fields, membership approval workflows, profile tabs, etc. a membership
management extension like e.g. Community Builder
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is needed.
USER GROUPS
The idea of a user group is to create sets of permissions.
"If you want to be an author on our site, you'll need the following permissions."
Instead of assigning these permissions to every user they are assigned to a group. The user can be
assigned to one or more groups. Imagine you have 10.000 users in four different groups. It's easy for the
administrator to manage the permissions for the groups. Without groups you have to change every user
account manually. If you use groups you only have to change permissions once!
In Joomla 2.5 it's up to you to configure any number of user groups. In User Manager - Groups, you
have an overview of all the groups, which are in core Joomla (Figure 6).
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