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[guffas Friend guffasJoin date: April 2009Posts: 51Downloads:2Uploads:4 Thanks: 14 Thanked: 6 times in 1 posts]

#202531

I try to have 2 different home pages. One for guests (not logged in users), and one for registered (logged in) users.

I understand, that I have to use the same layout on the same menu item. I can not have feature-intro-2 layout for guest users menuitem “home” and have corporate layout for registered users menuitem “home” when these “homes” are the same menu item.

So, I try to use corporate layout for both groups, both guests and registered members, but I don’t want the article component to be shown to guestusers on this particular menuitem.

I know I can point the “Home” menuitem to a category, and set article permissions, so only registered members are able to see articles, but on the guest side of it the following text is shown in the article component:

<blockquote>There are no articles in this category. If subcategories display on this page, they may contain articles.</blockquote>

I don’t want this output, so I wonder how I can disable the article component completely for guest users?

[guffas Friend guffasJoin date: April 2009Posts: 51Downloads:2Uploads:4 Thanks: 14 Thanked: 6 times in 1 posts]

#554563

Just figured out I could use the NoNumber Re-Replacer to remove that output. But I would prefer to get the component totally disabled for guests, so if anyone know how to…..?

[TomC Moderator TomCJoin date: October 2014Posts: 14077Downloads:58Uploads:137 Thanks: 948 Thanked: 3155 times in 2495 posts]

#554564

I would think it’s a matter of Component Access Controls/User Group Management/Assignment.
(see reference links below)

http://learn.theartofjoomla.com/building-components/adding-component-access-controls-part-1.html

http://docs.joomla.org/User_Management

http://docs.joomla.org/J2.5:Access_Control_List_Tutorial

http://docs.joomla.org/Help25:Users_Groups_Edit

https://www.willows-consulting.com/Joomla/joomla-25-user-permissions.html

[guffas Friend guffasJoin date: April 2009Posts: 51Downloads:2Uploads:4 Thanks: 14 Thanked: 6 times in 1 posts]

#554567

Thank you TomC, I will study.

Although, I personally assume one are not capable of using the joomla access controls to finetune the main content output container to decide what usergroup that shall see it or not on a particlular menu item. I think this has to be done in the template, but I will study your links and hopefully find out. Thank you.

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