Beginner's Guide

Figure 9: Access levels in an article
The new system is a big step forward for Joomla. Many users suffered from the lack of configurable
groups, access level and permissions.
Such functionality is needed in order to limit access to content and functions in large organizations or
to support e-commerce and subscriptions based services use cases on Joomla websites. The Joomla ACL
system is not only available for Joomla content and core functions, but also available for use in Joomla
extensions. For instance Community Builder and other memberships management solutions can take
advantage of this enhanced ACL functionality.
USER NOTES
You are able to creates notes with review dates for each user (Figure 10). It is possible to group the user
notes into categories. This feature allows you to setup a workflow process, e.g. for reviewing user
accounts. It is possible to sort the user notes by review date (Figure 11).
Figure 10: User note
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