Hi David Give this a try: http://www.ostraining.com/blog/joomla/joomla-acl-tutorial-for-allowing-one-person-to-modify-only-one-category/
That was written a while ago and there's an extra permission now. You'll also need to go to Site > Global Configuration > Permissions and give the new user group permission to "Access Administration Interface" Steve On Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at 6:40 AM, Helvécio da Silva wrote: > You can use Joomla 2.5.x ACL to acomplish that. A little bit tricky, but I > believe it can be done. > > G'luck! > > 2012/5/23 David Roth <davidalanr...@gmail.com > (mailto:davidalanr...@gmail.com)> > > I've never bothered with any other template for Admin than what is supplied > > with Joomla. But I want to be able to have a non-technical user be able to > > edit the content for a category of Articles assigned to them, but don't > > want anything else visible to them so they don't become confused or start > > to mess around with things which could screw up the pages. Before anyone > > tells me that the user should go through training and learn how to manage > > things so this doesn't happen, while I would agree, that isn't the case > > this time. > > > > Does such an admin template already exist? Or can Joomla 2.5.4 be made > > restrictive enough so when this non-technical user logins in they only see > > what they need to? Thanks! > > > > David Roth > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > New York PHP SIG: Joomla! Mailing List > > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla > > > > NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online > > http://www.nyphpcon.com > > > > Show Your Participation in New York PHP > > http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php > > > > > -- > Helvecio "Elvis" da Silva > Rio de Janeiro - Brasil - helvecio...@gmail.com (mailto:helvecio...@gmail.com) > http://www.helvecio.com - http://blog.helvecio.com > > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP SIG: Joomla! Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla > > NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online > http://www.nyphpcon.com > > Show Your Participation in New York PHP > http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php _______________________________________________ New York PHP SIG: Joomla! Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
