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Hi All,  I'm just wondering wether it is possible to allow staff into the backend to access all the functions of CIVICRM but without being able to access the entire joomla admin functions.   Or is their a way to put the civi shortcuts ie. new individual etc on the front end and allow them access, I have tried this but get a permission denied error.

Thanks for any help.

Cheers
Chris.

(bumping this because I'm hoping that Joomla 1.6 provides a way of doing this.)

I was able to use the Joomla 1.5 "Admin-User-Access" (AUA) extension to create a group, add specific users to that group, limit that group to CiviCRM only and not any of the other Joomla admin functions, create an "AUA toolbar" for the group, and hide the Joomla toolbar.   The net effect of this was, of course, when a restricted user logged in to the Joomla backend, the only toolbar he saw was the AUA toolbar, and the only menu item in that toolbar was CiviCRM.

Well, Admin-User-Access will NOT be released for Joomla 1.6 (because Joomla 1.6 has almost all of the ACL functionality integrated in the core) -- but I'm having a hard time figuring out exactly how to do in Joomla 1.6 what I was able to do in Joomla 1.5 using Admin-User-Access

I'm guessing that the equivalent of creating AUA usergroups is Joomla 1.6's Users > Groups > Add New Group (in my J1.6 test site, I created my new group as a child of Public, i.e. at the same "level" as Manager and Registered).

I'm also guessing that the equivalent of adding users to AUA usergroups is Joomla 1.6's user editor and checking the box next to the group created above (in my J1.6 test site, I added the userids who were AUA-restricted Managers in my J1.5 site to this new group).

What I'm having trouble figuring out is what is the equivalent of
a) restricting access of Managers in a new group to a single Joomla component (i.e. CiviCRM),
b) creating the AUA toolbar, and
c) hiding the Joomla toolbar

Of course, if the new J1.6 group can be restricted to only CiviCRM, that would be the equivalent of creating a new toolbar with just CiviCRM and hiding the existing Joomla toolbar... that's OK, too. 

Any ideas?