The last thing I'd like to cover here in the ACL chapter, and really talking
about users in general, is our user note feature that comes with Joomla, and
this was added in Joomla! 2.5.
It's really designed for IT departments, or for you as a freelancer to track
information about users.
It's not really meant to be a Customer Relationship Management, or CRM system;
it's not meant for your sales staff to come on in here, and read user notes about
people, or anything like that. It's really designed for the IT department to make
notes about maybe people's user groups, and when they've been promoted, or what
they have access to on the Web site, or something like that.
So I'll show you how these work.
Under Users, if I take a look at my menu here, I have the option of making User
Note Categories, or User Notes. Just as you've seen throughout Joomla,
we have the option of making a category to have certain types of user notes, and
then we can make actual notes that pertain to certain users.
So User Note Categories is here.
If I click on that, I can make a category for my notes.
I am just going to make one quick note, so I'm just going to stick it in the
Uncategorized category, but you could certainly create user categories exactly
the way you'd expect. You click on the New button, and you fill out the form, and
it's just the Title that's required.
And then here under User Notes, I'm going to go ahead and create a new user note
just by clicking the big green New button. I could give this a subject of Access
levels, and I could pick my user. This is going to pertain to Joe Distributor,
in the Category of Uncategorized, and then down here I can say, Joe is a
standard distributor;
he should have Registered access only.
So, you know, I could make a note here about, you know, a certain day he was promoted,
or he was hired away by KinetECO, and he's been assigned to a different user
group, or whatever, or people have been complaining about him on the front-end of
the Web site, and I want to put a note in here that he's been warned. Those kinds
of features may also be of use to you, so that's the kind of thing that user
notes are designed to help with.
So I'm going to go ahead and say Save & Close, and so now you'll see that Joe
Distributor has a note called Access levels that pertains to him, and if I go to
Users, I can see that I have one note associated with Joe. If I click on that, I
can display all of the notes that are associated with him.
It'll show up here on the screen, and so I can read all of those often, learn more
about Joe, and what I should know about him,
again, really from an IT perspective. This is not designed for sales, or
marketing, or anybody else.