sry, just used to PN's permission scheme where i make my own custom permissions and give 8 different types of permission to whatever component i want.

Just looks like XOOPS has some great third party modules, but the core is extremely lacking.

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I can only suggest "Think different"... In XOOPS you
- can do the same things as in PN
- do it easy
but use anoher way

For example, if you want 8 absolutely diffeent contents for 8 different groups, you can
or
- modify block's prepare-data function, define new variable (user group)in in and select correct piece of data inside block template... You have also define these 8 user's groups, sure...
or
- clone block 7 times, place all 8 blocks in same place, play with groups and permissions - every group can see only one block

It's only dirty preliminary examples

what if i only want to hide one link in a block from a particular group?

I'll create new variable (smth. like) $xoops_usergoup and wrap URL into if, save result of diff for patching next versions of module