Basic Setup (for Membership Control)

Monday, 12 October 2009 15:14 Last Updated on Thursday, 19 November 2009 16:19 Written by Administrator

Access Control verssion 4.0 can be downloaded from here: Download
Membership Control verssion 4.0 can be downloaded from here: Download

If you are using a version that is older than version 4.0, please follow this instruction to upgrade your component and plugins.

This section presents a guide to setup the component and plugins.

1. Setup Memberships

Setup one testing membership - controlling users' access of reading a Joomla Article

Before you move to the next step, please read this first:

The logic of the software: All articles, categories, sections, menu items and modules will be under controlled ONCE THEY ARE SELECTED in the policy, and once these items are selected in the policy, ONLY members in this policy/group can access them.

Go to Components --> Open Source MSC --> Membership Management, click the New button.
Click the Access Control Tab, enter the Membership name, and tick the "Allow user to view content items" option
Change the default message to non-members, so that this message will be shown to non-members for the "controlled" articles.
Select the Menu item in the Home page dropdown list. This will redirect the user to this menu item after the user is login if you turn on the "user redirection plugin".
Edit the Group descriptions
Save the Settings.

Then Click the Membership Setting to configure the payment setting for the membership.
If you would like to publish this membership, please select the "published" option in the drop down list.
Please set the currency symbol for the currency your Paypal or Google checkout is going to accept. For example, if you use British Sterling Pounds, please enter GBP.
If you are NOT going to accept recurring payments, please enter the price for the membership, and the recurrency. The unit of recurrency is day. This means that if you enter 365, the membership will be valid for 365 days.
If you are going to accept recurring payments, please leave the Once-Off section empty, and fill in the Recurring payment section. Please enter the price, durations and duration types (D-->Days, W-->Weeks, M-->Months or Y-->Years).
After you fill in all these information. Please click the Save button.

After saving Membership Information, click the "Configuration" Link to setup configurations.

After clicking in the Configuration Section, You will see a list of Control Selections Available. You will see the Credits and Order Management Sections as well. If you are using add-ons, you will see the add-on listed here as well.

Please click the Joomla Access Control link.
In the articles section, select the article(s) / category(ies) / section(s) you want to control the access. After selecting these article(s) / category(ies) / section(s), only the users that you select in the Applied Users can read the articles.
Please note:
* Ticking one section indicates that you want to restrict the access of all articles and categories in that section.
* Ticking one category indicates that you want to restrict the access of all articles in that category.

You can click on the section title to select the cateogries of this section. After you click into the section, you can switch to other sections by changing the options in the dropdown list on your right hand side.

Also, you can click on the category title to select the articles in this category. After you click into the category, you can switch the categories by changing the options in the dropdown list on your right hand side, or click the categories and section icon in the tool bar on the top.

After selecting the articles/categories/sections in the article section, please click on "Members" Icon on the top right corner. In the Members Section, select the users that you want to ALLOW them to view the article(s) / category(ies) / section(s) that you have selected in the article section. Please make sure that you have selected at least ONE user, for example, Super Administrator.

That's it. Your articles will be under controlled and only members can read the article.

2. Setup Frontend "Join Membership URL"

Go to Joomla Backend --> Menus --> Select one menu --> Click the New button --> Choose the Open Source MSC --> Choose the Membership List Layout, and then enter the title of this menu link and save it.

It will list all membership in the frontend. You can also copy the url for the payment button to any of your Membership payment page. That will guide the user to pay for your membership.
Note: you do not need to enter the Paypal account / Google checkout account here if you have entered them in the Component Parameters as instructed in 1.3.

3. That's it! Please test it now.

4. Other relevant instructions:

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