I found this from Jen Kramer (She's GREAT!) in Joomla Magazine. It can be a kickstart.
http://magazine.joomla.org/issues/Issue-May-2012/item/761-Joomla-ACL-Configuring-back-end 2012/5/23 OSTraining <i...@ostraining.com> > 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 > -- Helvecio "Elvis" da Silva Rio de Janeiro - Brasil - helvecio...@gmail.com http://www.helvecio.com - http://blog.helvecio.com
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