Hello,
Figure I should post this in a separate thread:

I have 3 groups:
- visitors who can view some of the info, but cannot post
anything (except through the contact form)

- registered users who can post to forum (and contact form),
but can not post anywhere else. they can however view some
of the info that is NOT visible to visitors.

- admin users who can post to anything (adding contents,
news, events, etc).

- for the forum, I want to totally disable the Inbox functionality so that notifications can only be sent to
the registered user's email address on file.

From my understanding, to achieve this access hierarchy,
I need to play around with Groups setting in Admin, and
assign users accordingly. But I don't understand how I
can block post but not view functionality. For example,
I want the admin users to be able to post to wfsections,
faq, news, etc. I don't want anyone else to be
able to do so, but I want the registered users to be able
to read all of the wfsections, but visitors to read
only SOME of the wfsections. Neither can post. Is this
possible? Same thing goes to FAQ, etc.

What does "Block Access Rights" mean in Admin->Groups? I see Login is checked there for the Anonymous user group,
but when a visitor comes to the site the Login panel is
still visible. Or are they actually different things?

Thanks,
Ray

Some modules have the fine grained access control that you want - others don't. I don't think that WF-Sections has per-category access control, but it may be in the works.

"Block Access Right" does NOT mean that access is blocked, but instead that there is access to the block
So when Login is checked, it means that anonymous users will see the Login Block (so they can login )

Thanks a lot for the reply. Very helpful in particular in explaining the "Block Access Right" concept .

Could you please recommend some content management modules
with fine grained access control capabilities (say per-category access control per group of users)?

Thanks much in advance,
Ray

It's in early beta, but here is the new News module
Which uses permission control on viewing, submitting and approving news items on a per-topic level.

Thank you. I'm still figuring things out so I have time for the new news module to mature a bit mroe. Thanks much.

A few other questions:

1) On xoops.org's home page, there is this box at the center
top titled "Welcome to XOOPS official website!" What is that
based on? I can see the URL as using the news module, but
when I post something through the news module, it doesn't have
exactly the same look and feel (it would have a date posted,
poster, number of times viewed etc, which I don't want for this box).

2) On xoops.org's home page, what are menus such as "Development Information" and "XOOPS Documentation" based on? I'd like to be able to add a couple of those menus with
their own menu items on my site.

3) For the news module, is there a way through configuration
to hide the "Comment" capability?

Thanks much,
Ray