XOOPS Operations Guide
  • Introduction
  • GENERAL PRINCIPLES
    • The XOOPS Core
    • Modules
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    • Content
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    • Themes and Templates
  • The Admin Interface
    • Logging
      • As Site Administrator
      • As Registered User
      • Incorrect Login Procedure
      • Logging Out
    • Control panel home
      • Some preliminaries before we get started in the admin area
        • JavaScript
        • Cache
    • Working with the new Admin GUI (en/book/our Dashboard)
      • Help Functions
    • Avatars
      • Adding avatars
      • Edit and delete Avatars
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    • Banners
      • What are they?
      • Current active banners
      • Add new banner
      • Editing banners
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      • Add new client
    • Blocks
      • Overview
      • Editing/Configuring a block
      • Adding custom blocks
      • Cloning a block
    • Comments
      • Overview
      • Manage comments
    • Groups Overview
      • The different sets of rights
      • Edit members of this group
      • Creating a new group
    • Image Manager
      • Adding image categories
      • Editing and deleting images and categories
      • Adding image files through the control panel
      • Accessing the image manager from the user side
    • Mail Users
    • Maintenance
    • Modules
      • Acquiring a module
        • Module origins
        • Ancillary files
        • Copyrights and GPL notices
      • Uploading the module
        • Preparing the module files for upload to a remote server
        • Using FTP or browser file uploader
        • Upload the module package
        • Setting file/directory permissions
      • Installing the module
      • Setting module visibility and menu order
      • Configuring module settings and options
        • Renaming module
        • Display and position options for the module
      • Setting user access rights for a module
    • Preferences
      • General Settings
      • User Info Settings
      • Meta Tags and Footer
      • Word Censoring Options
      • Search Options
      • Mail Setup
      • Authentication Options
      • System Module Settings
    • Smilies
      • Using smilies
      • Adding and editing smilies
    • Templates
      • The default template set
      • Cloning and downloading template sets
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The different sets of rights

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Go to System admin>groups>”Groups” page. The ‘Groups Manager’ page begins with a section called 'Edit Groups’ [Figure 14]. This allows you to select a specific group to work with and modify. Initially 3 default groups already exist, as described above. Select a group from this list and click on the “Edit” icon.

Figure 14 Edit Group page

The modify group page is returned. [Figure 15] You can now change the name of this group and give a meaningful description in the form boxes provided.

Figure 15 Modify Groups page

Looking further down the page you will see 4 sections, which represent the 4 sets of rights that can be defined in the permission system. In every section, ticking a checkbox will grant this group the rights as described. If the checkbox is unchecked, this group will not have access to the selected resource.

Note: Whenever you make changes to the settings on a page, you must click the 'Submit' button at the bottom before changes take place.

Let’s look at each set of rights individually.

d) System Admin Rights

As their name says, System Admin Rights are rights that will control access to the System module. Each item in this sections represent an item found in the Administration Menu>System Admin>Preferences menu. In order to see the System Admin module in the Administration Menu>”Control Panel Home” page, at least one item has to be checked in this section!

e) Module Admin Rights

Each item in this section represents a module that has been installed on your site. When a module is checked, the group will have access to the administration page of that module. For example, let’s say that a particular group only has the “Forum” and “Downloads” items checked in the Module Admin Rights section. When a member of this group goes to Administration Menu>”Control Panel Home”, he only sees 2 modules displayed: “Downloads” and “Forum”. As mentioned in the previous paragraph that member would also see a third module called “System Admin” if at least one item is checked in the System Admin Rights of his group.

f) Module Access Rights

The same as for the Module Admin Rights, the Module Access Rights section lists all the modules currently installed on your site. In order for a group to access a particular module, the corresponding item must be checked in the present section. In addition to not being able to access a module which item has not been checked, the members of the group will not even see that module through the Main Menu. For example: if, for the anonymous users group, the ‘News’ module is checked, when they visit your site, the ‘News’ module will be shown in the main menu and they can access the content (pages) of ‘News’. If the ‘Forums’ module is unchecked it will not show up in the main menu, and they will not be able to access any content in the ‘Forums’ module.

However, using the search function, a member of this group will be able to perform a search in module for which his group does not have access. Of course, the member will only be able to see the title of the items returned by the search and will not be able to actually access the item.

g) Block Access Rights

If a module has specific blocks that are available as part of its functionality, they will appear in this section. Each block can be assigned a position on the page (this is detailed in the block section of this manual) If we have already assigned a page position to a block, it will be seen in that position in the “Block Access Rights” section.

Each block displayed is given a system ID number. The name is also a hyperlink to a 'block edit' page. For further information on the Block Edit page, please see section 2.5.

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