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Looking for some advice that may help me determine the direction I will go in developing a new site.

I have a customer that is the parent company of five smaller entities. It is the customer’s wish that the smaller companies remain autonomous and self-standing, with respect to the site I’m creating. However, the site is dedicated providing information about certain business features that are provided by the parent company uniformly, equally to all five entities. So, all users will have access to a common library, documents, tutorials, etc. The only difference between what each entity sees are company logo’s and some basic feature article information. In other words, users from each entity will get all the same global detail, but feature articles and some modules will have the look of their own company.

What I hope is possible is the ability to have login restrict each of the five entities to only seeing articles related to their own operation; but still have access to the global resources.

As an example, say the five companies are, Company One, Company Two, Company Three, Company Four, and Company Five. If I am User at Company Three and I use my Company Three Login (only one login per company), I am presented with the opening featured article that discusses detail, history, mission statement, etc. that is exclusive to Company Three. I cannot see or access information or articles related to any of the other four companies. Additionally, I see a couple modules (menu) that relate exclusively to Company Three. Simultaneously, a different User at Company Two uses their Company Two login and has the same experience, seeing only either articles relating to Company Two, and global information that is available to all entities.

I hope this description provides enough detail to where you can say, a). This is not possible. You will need a unique Joomla site for each entity; or, b). This possible, and here’s how.

Thanks for any help.

Rob

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#479636

Did you try checking out this : http://docs.joomla.org/Access_Control_List/2.5/Tutorial

The above link should be of help to you.

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#479948

Ninja,

Yes, I’ve seen and read the ACL instructions and detail. But it seems — and I admit the virtual certainty that I’m not fully understanding — that the described ACL structure allows a hierarchy of vertical access, where a higher ranked user can see all items beneath him but not those above him. I’m not seeing in the article how to create horizontal restrictions; or, the means of having two or more equally privileged users see global items but not each other’s.

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#480160

I have read about Configuring back-end ACL on joomla site. Hope it helps

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