New Guest User Group and ACL?

[Nick Savov]

Hi everyone,

What are your thoughts on adding a Guest (non-logged) User Group and Viewing Access Level to the core?  It would be used for displaying content to non-logged-in users, but *not* to logged-in users.

For example, you could use it to display a "Login" menu item to non-logged in users, and it would prevent the "Login" button from being displayed to logged-in users (since they are already logged in).

I know you can do this by creating a custom group, however, it seems as though it's been a highly request feature since Joomla 1.5 (at least) and would be very useful as a core feature on new installs.

Your thoughts?

Kind regards,
Nick

[Mark Dexter]

I think we have already done this in the 3.0 sample data. Mark

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[Nick Savov]

Hi Mark,

Awesome! Yes, you're right. I just double check and it's indeed there.

@whoever implemented that feature
Great job! :)

Kind regards,
Nick

[Janich]

Still havent made a site in 1.7+ without creating it, so would save some clicks here as well.

I'd actually vote for it to go into the default groups and not only the sample data though...

[elin]

Not  just sample data, core joomla.sql as well. If you are testing you should see;

A group called guest.

An access level called guest with the guest group assigned to it.

The guest user group in user configuration set to guest.

Elin 

[Nick Savov]

Smart thinking! Joomla has a lot of bright developers! :)

Kind regards,
Nick

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