I have no need for paid subscriptions, but I do want new users to register to predefined private groups. I want these members to be able to create articles/blogs that only are viewable by members in groups they belong to.

I guess you could call this ACL.

I will be running on joomla 1.5.x.

A second question for the future. If I have joomla 1.6 does CB groups work hand in hand with the built in ACL of joomla 1.6 and it group names?

Hi Krileon

What you say is true, but I think the question/suggestion is still valid.

I have been working with the various versions of GroupJive for a few years. I am delighted with its latest incarnation, a great piece of work - thank you.

But the holy grail for GroupJive (for me) has always been to try and make it the heart of our Groups based user management. I have always wanted to be able to empower front end users with the ability to create and manage Groups, Membership and Access.

GroupJive 2.2 is very close. The missing part is the ability to create a private content area associated with the Group. In Joomla 1.0.x and 1.5.x this was not possible as the basic ACL infrastructure was not there to use. But ACL is present in Joomla 1.6.

I imagine that a base Content Category could be linked to GroupJive, in the same way a Kunena Category is, and that each group could spawn its own nested Content Category, just like Kunena does. The GroupJive group would create a matching Joomla ACL group, and sync users. The GroupJive Group owner could allocate editing rights within the matched Content Group associated with their Group - and decide if the content is generally public or private across (to view) to non Group members.

This may be something you already have in the works, or have discarded because of some obvious flaw. I'd be interested to know.