1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 The last thing I'd like to cover here in the ACL chapter, and really talking 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:09,000 about users in general, is our user note feature that comes with Joomla, and 3 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:11,000 this was added in Joomla! 2.5. 4 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:18,000 It's really designed for IT departments, or for you as a freelancer to track 5 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:20,000 information about users. 6 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:24,000 It's not really meant to be a Customer Relationship Management, or CRM system; 7 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:28,000 it's not meant for your sales staff to come on in here, and read user notes about 8 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:32,000 people, or anything like that. It's really designed for the IT department to make 9 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:36,000 notes about maybe people's user groups, and when they've been promoted, or what 10 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:39,000 they have access to on the Web site, or something like that. 11 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:41,000 So I'll show you how these work. 12 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:46,000 Under Users, if I take a look at my menu here, I have the option of making User 13 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:50,000 Note Categories, or User Notes. Just as you've seen throughout Joomla, 14 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:55,000 we have the option of making a category to have certain types of user notes, and 15 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:58,000 then we can make actual notes that pertain to certain users. 16 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:01,000 So User Note Categories is here. 17 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:04,000 If I click on that, I can make a category for my notes. 18 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:09,000 I am just going to make one quick note, so I'm just going to stick it in the 19 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:12,000 Uncategorized category, but you could certainly create user categories exactly 20 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:15,000 the way you'd expect. You click on the New button, and you fill out the form, and 21 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:18,000 it's just the Title that's required. 22 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:23,000 And then here under User Notes, I'm going to go ahead and create a new user note 23 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:29,000 just by clicking the big green New button. I could give this a subject of Access 24 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:34,000 levels, and I could pick my user. This is going to pertain to Joe Distributor, 25 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:39,000 in the Category of Uncategorized, and then down here I can say, Joe is a 26 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:44,000 standard distributor; 27 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:51,000 he should have Registered access only. 28 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:56,000 So, you know, I could make a note here about, you know, a certain day he was promoted, 29 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:01,000 or he was hired away by KinetECO, and he's been assigned to a different user 30 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:05,000 group, or whatever, or people have been complaining about him on the front-end of 31 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:09,000 the Web site, and I want to put a note in here that he's been warned. Those kinds 32 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:13,000 of features may also be of use to you, so that's the kind of thing that user 33 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:15,000 notes are designed to help with. 34 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:21,000 So I'm going to go ahead and say Save & Close, and so now you'll see that Joe 35 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:25,000 Distributor has a note called Access levels that pertains to him, and if I go to 36 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:31,000 Users, I can see that I have one note associated with Joe. If I click on that, I 37 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:34,000 can display all of the notes that are associated with him. 38 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:38,000 It'll show up here on the screen, and so I can read all of those often, learn more 39 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:41,000 about Joe, and what I should know about him, 40 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:45,000 again, really from an IT perspective. This is not designed for sales, or 41 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:47,000 marketing, or anybody else.