Reopening since I am stupid and can't read.

Thanks for reading my email and reopening the issue tracking for this Thomas. Much appreciated.

Indeed, for a large organization (such as a university with several thousands of students) with many groups having different permission settings, the ability to restrict most of these groups from creating new categories is essential.

The suggested method of disabling from global setting, did not work. It disabled "Create" on both Articles and Categories.

There is reason to believe that correcting the logic by separating the Options (especially Permissions) for Category from Articles will correct the experienced challenge and will provide better granularity for these two integral and complementary yet distinct part of the CMS.

I would recommend that for a complex ACL implementation you abandon the
idea of inheriting in this way. Instead I would look at adopting role based
ACL. Its much easier when you get your head around it. Have a search for
articles in the JCM and for videos recorded at JAB by Sander Potjer and
Randy Carey. They both explain role based ACL very well
On 21 Jan 2015 17:52, "jlilio" notifications@github.com wrote:

Thanks for reading my email and reopening the issue tracking for this
Thomas. Much appreciated.

Indeed, for a large organization (such as a university with several
thousands of students) with many groups having different permission
settings, the ability to restrict most of these groups from creating new
categories is essential.

The suggested method of disabling from global setting, did not work. It
disabled "Create" on both Articles and Categories.

There is reason to believe that correcting the logic by separating the
Options (especially Permissions) for Category from Articles will correct
the experienced challenge and will provide better granularity for these two
integral and complementary yet distinct part of the CMS.

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Hi Brian, thanks for pointing me into this direction. While I wasn't able to watch the entire video, I found time to communicate with Sander. He's very accommodating.

In the absence of certain functionality in the Joomla core and for enhancing capabilities, 3rd party extensions are the way to go. I have used many of them over the years for my projects, both paid and free. I asked Sander if his ACL Manager will allow me to prevent certain groups from creating categories while still allowing them to create new articles. He shared this link to me. I subscribed to get his extension today, a no-brainer really.

Having said that, still, I am hoping that the ability to prevent groups from creating new categories will make its way to the core. Forget about the many other complex things that goes along with ACL (which I may have incorrectly implied). By addressing just specifically this, such small improvement will surely matter in the long haul (i.e., to prevent newbies and unauthorized persons from messing up the categories structure). I hope you will all agree with me that this is essential for a CMS.

Moving to Needs Review so a Maintainer can decide if this should included in the Core or not. Thanks.

Hi you created this issue sometime ago but have not provided any code for people to evaluate. As no one else has shown any interest in providing the code and you have not then I am closing this issue at this time. If code is provided (a pull request) it can always be re-examined.

I definitely think this is valid and maybe we can consider this for a GSOC project in the future