At this section, learn the basic user management. Edit permissions of groups, create a new group, and add a new user to groups.
Your account is an administrator who is able to do anything. But, what do anonymous users and registered users see in your site? Let's confirm it. Click "logout" to become an anonymous user. By that, you are forwarded to the homepage. In there, you notice that the main menu block shows "news" and "forum" for you. The reason is that anonymous users don't have a permission to access these modules. So let's give a permission to anonymous users. Login as an adminstrator, and go to the control panel. And , click "Group Management" of use module in the left block of the control panel.
You see the group list.
These are system-fixed groups, which you have already learned at the second step. To change permissions, click the permission icon of the row indicating "Anonymous".
Next, click a checkbox of news access and forum access to turn on. Then, click "Submit" button.
Let's confirm the result. Click "logout", and see the homepage again. You will see the display you hope.
Confirm the case of registered users, too. For that, you need to create a new user as a test acoount. At first, click "User Management" of user module in the left block of the control panel. Next, click "Create new".
You see the edit-form to create a new user. You must input User name (Login ID), email and password.
This is Login ID. You must input an unique name. This time, input "test".
You must input an unique email which other users don't use yet, because the precondition of XOOPS2 requests an unique email of each users. This time, input your e-mail address which you don't use for an administrator.
You should not use dummy e-mail. That's moral.
Threre are two boxes for password. One of them is verify password. Input the same password to two boxes. This time, input "test"
After you created a new user successfully, try to login with the new account. But, you can't see news and forum at the main menu block. Yes, the reason is that the registered users group doesn't have permissions. Give the same permission to the registered users in the control panel, like you gave the permission to the anonymous users group.
Now let's launch your site! Go to final settings. You invalidated the new user registration. To change the setting again, click "Preference" of user module in the left block of the control panel.
Next, enable "Allow new user registration?". And, let's check other settings, too.
When a new user registered, specific groups can get the notification-mail.
When a new user registered, specific groups can get the notify mail.
If you allow it, user become able to upload his avatar freedom.
Everything is set. Push "Submit" button!
Since many users use your site, it became difficult to manage your site by you only. And so, you decided to add your friends to administrators. For that, you need to create a new group having specific permissions, at first. Create a new group "News Administrators" in "Group Management". Next, add "Jorn Dagrus" and "Michel Romano" to the group. There are many methods to do it.
Click the member icon of the row indicating "News Administrators" in "Group Management".
You see two user lists --- the list of members and not members.
Find "John" & "Sean", click the chckbox of them, and push "Assign". This function is a standard function, but it's not useful for many users because you can't search users in this function.
Because a name of users you hope is fine, try to search them through "User Search". Click "User Search" of user module in the left block of the control panel.
You see the edit-form for user search. You can find users with user name.
Then, click the edit-icon in the search result. You can change groups of them.
You've just finished learning the basic use of XOOPS Cube Legacy. You can do basic controls of XOOPS Cube Legacy, because you know modules, blocks and basic user management. For more informations, use other helps and Google.
Wishing your site a very successful future.
XOOPS Cube Legacy has a basic permission mechanism only. By that, modules may have more great permission controller. And, XOOPS Cube has the role-base permission mechanism. If you hope to understand XOOPS Cube more, learn them.