Greetings gentlemen!

I want to pest you a bit with a question.

Right now running Joomla 2.5.10 with CBsubs GPL 3.0.0 and CB1.9

Scenario: Joomla as been set to register all clients under a custom usergroup (in this case SUBSCRIBER), so any registered groups CANNOT see anything of the subscriber group by default (Ie, we're a private site, and we sell to very specific groups of people)

Joomla is set "New User Registration Group" to "SUBSCRIBER".


The problem..
all CB related behavior forces all users to "REGISTERED" group.

Example Actions that cause this:

a) User registration thru plans... clients will have the correct ACCESS levels and groups as selected in the plan. The issue is... they will ALWAYS BE IN REGISTERED GROUP AS WELL!

b) A client's subscription runs out.. CBSubs will again automatically assign the user to the REGISTERED user group, regardless of what option is in the ACCESS tab is used.

c) When a client renews or purchases another subscription.. again CbSubs will automatically assign the client's usergroup to REGISTERED plus what is set in the ACCESS.

Is this a bug?
or this is normal behavior?
what could be done to prevent such changes?

that is the second issue I'm having.

If we use REGISTERED and any child of it, certain menu will NOT BE VISIBLE

its like the REGISTERED and its childs do not play along with newer childs.

since its a live site I cannot make much changes on the fly.

also, like I said before, I already set the default group to "subscriber" yet CB keeps going back to "registered".

Here is our current group list:



I tried using the same child type (Ie subscriber inside registered)
and it would NOT work.. a menu that is set to subscriber will not be visible even if the user is in subscriber.. removing it from "registered" makes it work again.


I have tried REGISTERED -> SUBSCRIBER NA (which as privileges to access certain menus and sections)
also REGISTERED -> SUBSCRIBER -> SUBSCRIBER NA

its like, as long it touched "REGISTERED" group, the CBsubs and Joomla ACL limitations wont work properly.

Current VIEWING ACCESS levels



ACCESS gives access to a specific page only.
SUBSCRIBER is the one that lets menus be visible
(I tried adding the same rights to registered than to subscriber.. and it didnt work either)


and the REGISTERED privileges

Thanks krileon, I will try to make a 1:1 copy in a subdirectory to see how it behaves.

Hello Krileon,

I have tried what was suggested.. moved the entire block of SUBSCRIBER into REGISTERED.
now normal accounts who have the SUBSCRIBER AND REGISTERED ranks cannot access the menus which are set to SUBSCRIBER.
removing the user from REGISTERED lets the user see the menu again.

any ideas?

Note you probably need to correct permissions after you move Subscriber as they're probably setup to treat the user like they're Public as by default they inherit from the parent.

I suppose I have to do the correction of ACL. How do I do that?