Joomla User Manager & Joomla Menu Manager

Joomla User Manager & Menus

User Manager

Figure 4.36: User Manager

New
With New you can create a new user. By clicking on New you get an appropriate form (Figure 4.37). The following options are available for you:

Figure 4.37: New

Name: The real name of the user.
Username: The user ID.
Email: The email address. Depending on the settings in the Site | Global Configuration menu, an email address can be used just once or several times (see the Global Configuration section).
Password: The password has to be entered twice for verification.
Group: The group affiliation is divided into two large areas:
* Users that are only allowed to visit your Public Frontend website(Table 4.4)
* Users that are allowed in the Joomla! administration (Public Backend) (Table 4.5).

All content in Joomla! can be allotted to these groups. The front-end user group consists of the Registered used, Author, Editor, and Publisher:

Table 4.4: Front-end User Groups

The back-end user group consists of the Manager, Administrator, and Super Administrator:

Table 4.5: Back-end User Groups

Block User: Here you can block a user and forbid him or her access.
Edit: With Edit you can modify a user.
Delete: Delete allows you to delete a user.
Force Logout: With Force Logout you can force the immediate logout of a user.
Special Users: A special user is any user that has more rights than an author. At the moment, it is not possible to create your own user groups in Joomla!. The group, special users, is helpful in limiting content elements to this group. That can be very helpful if, for example, one wants to offer links to internal help files only to these special users.

Menu Manager

The individual menus are administered here. Joomla! has four different menus in the sample data (main menu, other menu, top menu, and user menu). Each menu is coupled with a module, which is administered in the Module Manager (see Chapter 6). The four menus are shown to you in the Menu Manager workspace and in the menu bar (see Figure 4.38). You can access the existing menus from the menu bar or by clicking the respective menu item icon in the Menu Manager. The editing steps are the same for all menus:

Figure 4.38: Menu Manager

Customize Existing Menu
Go to Site | Menu Manager | mainmenu (Figure 4.39). The first published menu entry on this list is shown as the starting page of your site. At the moment this is the front page. But you can make any other element the starting page:

Figure 4.39: The Main Menu in Menu Manager

New
This allows you to create a new menu. We will do this in the next section.

Edit
Here you can modify an existing menu, for example, the Links. Clicking on Links, takes you to the form for modification of menu elements as shown in Figure 4.40. In the left area, you can set up the details and on the right the parameters. The number and the type of parameters depend on the type of the menu entry:

Figure 4.40: Edit Menu Item