Permissions Management

KMFasTrans supports the management of native Joomla permissions and also introduces a new layer of language-level permissions. Thus, the actions permitted to a user on languages and elements of a language will be divided into two main categories:

A. Language Permissions

These are the Languages component permissions. They affect the management of languages only, ie Installed Site Languages, Installed Administrator languages, and Overrides. You can allow or deny management of languages for a user group. If you deny, the users of that group will not have access to these functions. Actually they will not see the linkss.

A button 'Language Manager Options' has been added to the KMFasTrans Control Panel toolbar to facilitate Language setting permissions.

B. Translations Permissions

These are permissions to create, delete, edit, edit state or edit own of translations elements and are a combination of the following levels of permissions:

• • • 1. KMFasTrans component permissions. These are the highest priority translations permissions. If an action (such as editing the state) is denied in KMFasTrans it will can not be taken at any level.
    • 2. The permissions of the Element-Component. This refers to the component that contains the items being treated. For example Content if we are creating or editing an article, or Banners if we are editing or creating a banner.
    • 3. The permissions of an specific language. For example, you can not edit an article or any other item in English if you have not edit permission for English language.

Permissions of of an specific language are only supported on KMFasTrans PRO.

• • • 4. The permissions of a particular item. It applies to articles or categories. You can not edit a particular article if you do not have permission to edit this article.

Using these two categories and four levels of permissions you will have great flexibility in determining what a translator can do. You can deny all administration permissions for all components except KMFasTrans, only allowing users to create new translations or edit existing ones. In terms of security this is similar to creating translations from the front-end.

For example you could set up a group of translators who only are allowed to translate banners to the French language, and unable to publish or unpublish the banners they create. To do this you have to:

• • Allow Access Administration Interface to this group in KMFasTrans Options.
  • Deny Access Administration Interface to this group in Language Manager Options of KMFasTrans.
  • Deny Delete, Edit and Edit State to this group for every language except French in KMFasTrans Content Languages.
  • Deny Access Administration Interface to this group in every component including com_banners.
  • Deny Create, Delete, Edit, Edit State, Edit Own in every component except com_banners.
  • Allow Create, Delete, Edit and deny Edit State in com_banners.

When a user of this group access the administration it will see one screen similar to the following one:

 In the above image you can see several things:

1. The user only has access to the component KMFasTrans, within it, only to Control Panel and Translations Management Dashboard. He is not allowed to manage languages because the Access Administration Interface has been denied.

2. The element types he can select in the - Select Element Type - dropdown list are Categories and Banners only (Banners is selected in the image). 

3. In the listing you can see that all languages except French are in gray, ie nothing can be changed.

4. The status in the column French(FR) is also in gray because we have denied Edit State for this users.

With respect to Translations Permissions, if you do not have permission to take a certain action, you can not click on the text or image that enables the action. Furthermore, in order to recognize that you do not have permissions, the text or image will appear in gray and in most cases by hovering the mouse over the text or the image, an explanatory text will be shown.

To assign permissions to users, you must create one or more user groups and assign each of them the desired permissions.

How to create a group could be as follows:

a). Go to Users-> Group-> Add new group.
b). Set as Group Title: "Translators".
c). Set as Parent Group: "Manager".
d). Save and go to Users-> Access Levels-> New Access Level.
e). Set as Title Level "Translations" and check the "Translators" checkbox.
f). Go to System-> Global Configuration->KM FasTrans.
g). In the Permissions tab and in the group Translators, the Action 'Configure' should be 'Denied' and the Action 'Access Administrator Interface' must be 'Allowed'. The remaining actions, 'Create', 'Delete', 'Edit' and 'Edit State must be configured as appropriate for the user group that is being defined.
h). Click 'Save' and make sure that the settings are correct.

If you want to allow or deny language permissions for this group you have to access the Language Permission screen:

a). Go to System-> Global Configuration->Languages.

The Language Manager Options screen will open and you can configure the permissions of the group in the Joomla Language Manager standard way.

Now you can register the users you want in the "Translators" group. These users can only perform the allowed actions.

With this basic configuration, a user of the group that we have created can do everything that is allowed to his group in each component. It is possible to refine the permissions of that group by setting the options you want in each component. For example, it could prevent group users from creating or editing Banners.

Then, if you want to, you can set permissions for each language for that user group. To see in detail how to do this see KM FasTrans New/Edit Content Languages Help.

Setting permissions of KMFasTrans.

KMFasTrans permissions are configured as those of any component. If allowed, you simply need to click on System-> Global Configuration->KM FasTrans. After clicking on the 'Permissions' tab, the standard Joomla permissions management screen will be displayed.

Setting permissions of a particular language.

This functionality is only supported on KMFasTrans PRO.

Permissions of a particular or specific language is an important feature of KMFasTrans PRO. This allows users groups access to different sets of languages. Permissions for a particular language are set as follows:

If allowed, on the 'Content Languages' Screen click on the title of the language or enable the CheckBox and click Edit in the toolbar. This opens a window where you can select one or more user groups (previously created).

For each user group you can set the following permissions:

• • Delete
  • Edit
  • Edit state

Setting Language Permissions has the following effects on the operation of KMFasTrans:

(*) Subject to language specific permissions

Setting KMFasTrans Component Permissions has the following effects on the operation of KMFasTrans:

(*) Subject to language specific permissions

(**) Subject to Component-Element permissions

(***) Subject to Item permissions

Setting Element-Component Permissions has the following effects on the operation of KMFasTrans:

(*) Subject to language specific permissions

(***) Subject to Item permissions 

Setting particular Language Permissions has the following effects on the operation of KMFasTrans: 

 (***) Subject to Item permissions 

Setting Item Permissions has the following effects on the operation of KMFasTrans:

 Applies to: Articles and Categories