Content Protect
This CBSubsTM Content integration plugin, when installed and published, will enable you to mark which specific CMS content elements you wish to protect based upon a CBSubsTM plan.
With this integration plugin you can protect the following elements:
- READ: BY Content Section
This functionality allows you to protect all articles of one or more Joomla content sections from being read (viewed) based on a CBSubsTM plan. This way you can specify that a section (and all its categories and articles) is only viewable if the viewer is subscribed to a specific CBSubsTM plan.
- READ: By Content Category
In a similar fashion, with this functionality you can protect an entire content category based on a CBSubsTM plan.
- READ: By Content
Here you can protect individual articles from being viewed by members if they are not subscribed to a specific CBSubsTM plan.
- Author: By Content Section
Authoring can now be limited to specific section content based on a CBSubsTM plan.
- Author: By Content Category
Authoring limited to specific category content based on a CBSubsTM plan.
- Author: By Content
Authoring limited down to individual articles based on a CBSubsTM plan.
- Editor: By Content Section
An Editor can now be limited to a specific content section based on a CBSubsTM plan.
- Editor: By Content Category
An Editor can now be limited to a specific content category based on a CBSubsTM plan.
- Editor: By Content
An Editor can now be limited to a specific content article based on a CBSubsTM plan.
- Publisher: By Content Section
A Publisher can now be limited to a specific content section based on a CBSubsTM plan.
- Publisher: By Content Category
A Publisher can now be limited to a specific content category based on a CBSubsTM plan.
- Publisher: By Content
A Publisher can now be limited to a specific content article based on a CBSubsTM plan.
- By Menu
You are now able to protect access to specific menu items based on a CBSubsTM plan.
- By Component
You can protect access to individual (installed) components on your website based on a CBSubsTM plan.
- By Module
You can now limit the appearance of (installed) modules on your website based on a CBSubsTM plan.
- By URL Parts
With this functionality you can limit access to specific URL parts of your site based on a CBSubsTM plan. This way depending on how individual components operate you could protect specific functionality of this component.
Some example use cases for this integration plugin are:
- Provide view privileges.
- Provide authoring privileges.
- Provide publishing privileges.
- Show or hide modules based on plans.
- Provide access to component based on plans.
- Limit functionality of component based on plans.
- Limit specific forum area based on plans.
Hopefully, the previous use cases are enough to give you the overall usefulness of this CBSubsTM integration plugin. This specific integrations plugin provides us with the User Interface to a fine ACL functionality still missing in Joomla and all of this without any hacking or tampering with other code elements - clean, professional future-proof solution!