I need to have certain fields that makeup a Content Type only viewable to a specific usergroup. The article itself needs to be Public so I can't restrict the whole article, only certain fields in the article.
I'm going to create a Dynamic field that pulls in Joomla Usergroups from MySQL. The restricted fields then needs to only allow viewing to the usergroup selected in the dynamic field. :)
Any ideas? Thank you
There is restriction field that can do this
I installed the plugin as you suggested. The issue is,is that the fields need to be restricted based on what usergroup the admin selects when they create the seblod (content type) article. Here is the scenario
1) Joomla admin creates a new seblod article called Activities (content type)
2) The admin clicks a dropdown selection field consisting of Joomla usergroups, they select which usergroup this Article is for (example "partner" usergroup)
3) Once saved. The public can still see the article, bit only fields viewable are "title, location and description". The other fields "resources, participants and trainer" fields are only visible to users who are logged in and belong to the usergroup selected by the admin in Step 2
I hope this makes sense. Thank you Klas :)
Hi
How about a position override:
if (usergroup a) {}
else if (usergroup b) {}To get fields values uss
$cck->renderField('field_name');
$cck->getValue('field_name');
$cck->get('field_name')->value;
Bucklash
Sounds promising. Are you able to give me a little more details? Where to apply the position override.
Hi
Quick answer, look at this:
You create a position override which your template picks up, and renders whatever you have 'coded'.
Alternative solution would be to use beforeRender code field and do a check there - if field is not supposed to show set $field->display = 0;$field->state = 0;
So I just tried to do a test. But creating an overide file and just having "test" to see if it works but it doesn't This is the path
/templates/seb_one/positions/article/content/topa.php
What am I doing wrong?
top-a.php
OK Thank you, I got it working. :)
Now that I can override a position. I need these 2 things
1) A dropdown select in Admin Form (edit article content type) listing all Joomla Usergroups to allow the person to select a usergroup
2) A condition in the override php file to only display if the the user belongs to the usergroup selected in Admin Form.
Thank you so much!
Hi Klas. I understand how to create a file to override a position.
I need to know, what selection field do I use to display a list of Joomla Usergroups to select.
Then I will create an override (if statement) to only show the position based on the Usergroup selected
For usergroups field you can use Joomla Library -> usergroup (you need to create new field instance, existing one has user object for storage which most likely won't work for you)
Hi Klas,
I have a code that restricts the fields by 2 specific usergroups.
<?php
$user =& JFactory::getUser();
$uid = $user->id;
jimport( 'joomla.access.access' );
$groups = JAccess::getGroupsByUser($uid, false);
if(in_array(8, $groups) or in_array(10, $groups)):?>
Which does successfully restricts the content to usergroup IDs 8 and 10.
But I need the 10 to be replaced by a CCK text field called usergroup_id
I tried this but it doesn't work. I think I am missing something simple.
<?php
$user =& JFactory::getUser();
$uid = $user->id;
jimport( 'joomla.access.access' );
$groups = JAccess::getGroupsByUser($uid, false);
if(in_array(8, $groups) or in_array(echo $cck->getValue('usergroup_id');, $groups)):?>
echo prints information, but you dont't want that - use
or in_array($cck->getValue('usergroup_id'), $groups)
Hi Klas.
I would like to have 3 arrays but I get an php error.
if(in_array(8, $groups) or in_array($cck->getValue('usergroup_id') or in_array($cck->getValue('usergroup_id2'), $groups)):?>
Can you see why I would have an error. I just want to have 3 instead of 2 arrays
in_array($cck->getValue('usergroup_id') is not complete , $groups) is missing
