category access is still confusing[Solved in 3.2.12]

[carin]

I started a thread at http://www.jdownloads.com/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=150 but that is locked.

The problem mentioned there still exisists and it is pretty massive. Since I cannot set a parent category with allowed sub categories, the user sees ALL my categories ... that is a privacy nightmare! Is there a solution for that?

cheers

[ColinM]

Carin
There is a bug in create downloads that shows all the categories so that the user can select any one.  It should be limited to those categories that the User Group has View Access.  I understand that this is being worked on.

If you are talking about which categories can be seen by different user groups in say List All Categories then there is a solution.  I have a reasonably extensive example in the documentation
see http://www.jdownloads.net/documentations/item/setting-up-restricted-access-with-multiple-user-groups?category_id=30

A simpler article is http://www.jdownloads.net/documentations/item/how-to-create-a-private-category?category_id=30

The method is based on using the View Access Level in the categories and downloads.

Note at this time the Category and Downloads Permissions and Access Levels do not cascade down.  I anticipate that this state may change.  Actually the ACL Permissions are quite satisfactory, it is the Access Levels that really need to cascade.

Colin