Back-end User Groups

There are three Back-end User Groups available in a standard Joomla! installation.

As administration User Groups they have the access permission to log in to the web site as well as to the Administrator Back-end - via a separate log in process. They can view all Content that is Classified as Registered Access, Public Access, as well as Special Access.

Manager: The Manager User Group inherits the access permissions of the Publisher User Group in the Front-end of the web site and, in addition, its members are allowed access to the Administrator Back-end (Control Panel) via a separate log in.

In the Control Panel a Manager can access the following Administrator Menus and associated functions:

• Site:

  • Media Manager
  • Preview.
  • Statistics
• Menu:
  • Access and edit existing Menus
• Content:
  • Content by Section
  • All Content
  • Static Content Manager,
  • Section Manager,
  • Category Manager
  • Front Page Manager
  • Archives Manager.
  • Page Impressions
• Help (general), including System Info.

Administrator: The Administrator User Group inherits the access permissions of the Manager User Group and in addition an Administrator has the following permissions:

• Site:

  • Trash Manager,
  • User Manager (may create/edit/delete any user of the same level or below – all except Super Administrator.
• Menu:
  • Menu Manager
• Modules:
  • Site Modules
  • Administrator Modules
• Components
  • Banners
  • Contacts
  • Mass Mail Not available although it appears in this menu
  • News Feeds
  • Polls
  • Syndicate
  • Web Links
• Mambots:
  • Site Mambots
• Installers
  • Components
  • Modules
  • Mambots

Super Administrator: The Super Administrator User Group has total access permission – that is for all Back-end administration and all Front-end functions.

All the functions accessed by the Administrator User Group plus:

• Site:

  • Global Configuration
  • Language Manager
  • Template Manager
    • Site
    • Administration
  • User Manager (may create/edit any type of user, may delete any user except Super Administrator.

NOTE: Super Administrators may be deleted directly from within the MySQL database;

• Components:
  • Mass Mail
• Messages:
  • Inbox
  • Configuration
• System:
  • Version Check
  • Global Checkin
  • System Information

Content Access Classification:

In Joomla! Content is classified by who can view/access it. There are three levels of Content Access Classification:

• Public - open to all visitors to the web site.

• Registered - restricted to all seven Registered User Groups of the web site.
• Special - restricted to all User Groups except Guest and Registered.