How to grant front end access to specific users in acymailing6

MelanieB

Hi,
I cannot see where I grant frontend access to certain users in Acymailing 6. I basically want to allow full access to certain users. I have these instructions but they relate version 5x:

https://www.acyba.com/acymailing/126-acymailing-frontend-edition.html

I have tried creating user group access but prefer not to do it this way as causing other issues away from acymailing.

Where do we set the access in new version?

Kind regards

Mel

joomleb

Hi MelanieB
as far as I see you are looking for Front End management.
In the past days I opened a similar topic to have some infos about its use and to know what Acyba team is working on / have planned.
If you have suggestions requests, informations, tip and tricks, Please, write there... you are welcome

jvstratum

MelanieB

Hi,

To start with, you want only the designated users to be able to access the front-end edition of Acymailing. That is something you control with Joomla user groups. Best way is to create a special Joomla user group as a sub group of "Registered users". You can assign your Joomla users to more then one group.

For now you have to do this manually. I'm sure Acyba will make it possible (like in v5) to control this from within Acymailing with mass actions and automations so you will be able to add and remove users from the Joomla group automaticly.

MelanieB

Hi @jvstratum,

Here are the steps I have taken which might help others 🙂:

Created a new Joomla user group called Marketing under the parent group: Registered
Created a new access level group in Joomla called Marketing Team
Set all the AcyMailing menu links to access level of Marketing Team
Added designated users to the Marketing Group (by going in to their Joomla user account and assigning them to the new group
Logged in as one of the designated users and clicked on the link I created to the Campaigns page. This opens and I see You don't have any campaign. Create one now! with a button.
I click on the Create New Campaign button and get a message saying Unauthorised access.

I am nearly there I think? What else do i need to do?

Also can I do the following in Acymailing 6 as this is our marketing team and we want them to share campaigns, templates etc.:

Assign lists to this Marketing Group
Assign some existing campaigns to this Marketing Group in addition to the creator
Assign specific generic templates to this Marketing Group so they don't have to create them from scratch
Allow access to all or some user lists

Kind regards

Mel

Kind regards

jvstratum

Hi,

Sorry for not mentioning you need to add a new access level as well. Seems yoiu still have a access level issue. Did you add the user group Markerting Group to the access level group Marketing? (edit you acces level and check the user group)

In v6 it is not possible yet to assign lists, campaigns, templates, etc. to specific user groups. In v5 this was possinble, so I'm pretty sure Acyba will bring this to v6 also. Please be patient, it's a matter of time.

MelanieB

Hi yes,
I added that but it didn't allow me access. I have PWT ACL and so checked the settings for Acymailing and I needed to set that to allow Access for my new group. It seems to be working now 🙂

Can't wait until the features appear in new version (will be patient and try working between both versions). Any idea of a likely timescale though i.e. is it weeks, months or even a year away? This matters because if it is quite into the future then would best sticking with v5 till then to use the needed features.

Kind regards and thanks

Mel

jvstratum

Hi,

Glad you find a solution.

As for the timetable and priority list I don't have any detailed information for you. Acyba is focusing the entire year on developing Acymailing 6. They even dropped support for AcySMS for this. They have to recode ten years of coding and that's a lot of work.

The problem is that we (the users) all have different priorities and Acyba can't realize all of them at the same time. In general they focus on the most used features first. Though there might be situations where they work on specific features and add some less important features in case they are related and easy to implement.

The roadmap is gone, so we basicly don't know what they are working on and in which order. But be sure that all v5 features will come back to v6. Patience is a virtue.

MelanieB

@jvstratum,

thanks so much for your help yet again - most appreciated! Maybe one of the Acyba team can respond and update us on where things are at? Be nice to hear from them as it is critical for most of us.

Kind regards

Mel

geoffr

Yes please. We are waiting for Access Levels for Lists, as per v5. What is the ETA for this feature in v6?

Thanks,
Geoff

joomleb

@MelanieB @geoffr Hi guys,
about this need on the Frontend Management, I added a "Limit" request to the AcyMailing GitHub project: https://github.com/acyba/acymailing6/issues/6

Thinking it is really "a must", I Invite you to support asap the project by writing there, testing, asking or just with a +1
Thanks