Juga does everything as advertised. We've built our membership site using it and it lets us do everything we need. The support is also very prompt.

There is definitely a learning curve for this extension because it is so comprehensive. If you have nay need to restrict content then this is the #1 way to go!

Once you figure out the documentation, this tool rocks. However, after paying $50 I find that this product will not work with Jreviews... This should be stated somewhere! While they did provide a solution so that I could get the desired functionality with Jreviews, it came with the following disclaimer..

"We don't recommend this publicly to JUGA users because it can potentially cause terrible configuration headaches, but you can force JUGA to recognize the Itemid variable. To do so, open the file:"

The possible issues that could arise from their "solution" are hardly something I would want to do on a production site. Who knows what trouble you could get yourself into.

Given the fact that I paid for this product, the answer I received is hardly worth the value of the $50 that I spent. I am now using Community ACL with out any issues. Too bad as I did really like this product.

AGAIN DOES NOT WORK WITH JREVIEWS

I have been using JUGA for 11 months now on a membership website, and had my first need for support this week when I upgraded to the newest version on my test site.

A change in the way JUGA looked at external links meant my on-site, external links were no longer visible on my menus.

The JUGA staff quickly and professionally isolated my problem and provided a fix that allowed me to upgrade my production site quickly and painlessly.

JUGA has met all of my requirements for group access control on a membership site for the last year - and I look forward to a long and fruitful relationship with the Dioscouri developers.

I have recently purchased another Dioscouri module - in a large part because of the success I've had with JUGA doing what it claims in an easy to understand and implement manner.

A great module, from a great company.

I have now purchased pretty much everything dioscouri.com has for product with the exception of one program. Honestly, this is what professional support and components are. If you are a systems administrator that is used to permissions systems, working with permissions at a low level, then Juga will make complete sense to you and won't be a mind blower. While it may be a time consuming configuration to take every page, and every component, module, and available resource and designate a permission to each, it has it's advantages.

I've talked with the company and I'm pretty much impressed. You don't get this type of professional experience from all commercial components and their developers.

If you need a permissions system for Joomla that works, this would be it. However, I wouldn't get discouraged if you cannot get everything setup quickly. It's a thought provoking process configuring security permissions and certainly not for the light hearted.

Congrats to Dioscouri for Billets, Ambra, Juga, and some of the free software such as Hide.

And please do add Google Checkout and a few other merchant pugins for Ambra. Yours sales will improve.

Thanks again for your diligent work. 5 Stars from myself, If I could give more I would.

If you want a user management extension that does what it says and doesn't mess with Joomla, this is it! What I will say to anyone considering it is this - do read the manual before you even start to install or use it and keep in mind that something this powerful has a steep learning curve until you understand how it works - and it does work. As for the cost, money well spent so don't cut corners looking for freebies - they don't even come close. Full marks for an excellent extension.

This extension does what they advertise. Extremely powerful. ACL is very complex so naturally the extension is going to take a little time investment to use .... but it works great...if you need the functionality there is nothing better than juga for tight content control.

I initially tried JUGA when Joomla!'s latest version was 1.0.? and was dissappointed and ended up going with JACL. But since the release of JUGA v1.5 there have been major improvements and I tried it again and it far surpasses any ACL I've used before.

I now install it on all my sites as it's by far the easiest way to manage rights and permissions in Joomla!. Depending on the settings you can control virtually anything. I've used it to give certain user groups access to publishing rights on the front end, I've controlled administrative tasks on the back end, and I'm about to use it to give specific soccer teams in a club a private section for each team.

It's easily integrated with Community Builder, but I'm very curious for their new AMBRA extension to come out of Beta testing, as it looks to be able to replace my need for Community Builder.

I did get some error loops when I first started using JUGA, but soon found the answers in their extensive online documentation. Shame on me for not taking the time to read the manuals. But once I understood the principles behind JUGA, the sky was the limit.

Thanks JUGA!

Oh, and did I mention that they were always very quick to answer my emails. A definite plus!

Juga provides for the creation of user groups that are much finer than Joomla gives you. You can restrict access to individual articles, components or anything that is defined in the URL. Combined with their sister product, Ambra Subscriptions, Juga gives you total control over who can see what on your site. This is a complex product, not simple or intuitive to set up, but the excellent documentation will guide you through. If you run into trouble (I had a site with an old PHP version), the excellent, responsive support staff will come to your rescue with clear, pointed instructions about what you should do to resolve your issue. I am completely happy and will use Juga on all my sites which require restricted access.

Greatly designed module is just a start. They supported this with SUPERB customer service.

I found a problem with my installation earlier, and they even went as far as directly fixing it and make me an example from my site.

I use this module to give user restriction to an SEO-ed Kunena forum, and my site had Community Builder installed.

I am looking to combine this with DocMan now, lets see if its possible also - I'll post up again!

It would be better if somebody can write down an admin area focusing only on JUGA and KUNENA as it isn't that straightforward for now... oh well we'll see until my client requested it...

I needed a component that would do exactly what JUGA offered. A user group type component to restrict users to components, modules, articles, etc, or both front and back end. When I first installed the component I had some issues with configuration and using the component to do what I wanted. The dioscouri team was there to help me EVERYTIME. Honestly, I never had such great support and I have downloaded and bought well over a few hundred components. Ultimately, in the end, I realized that it was my fault for not publishing all modules as needed. I highly highy highly suggest this component, heck I would pay jut for the support alone.

Way to goes guys, you really set the bar for the rest of the developers.

I have been very impressed with this component and its support. The support team understand the nature of Joomla and trying to integrate third party components to all work nicely together. Where I have had conflicts, they have been willing to work on my system and help me fix them. This is way above the level of service I expected.

I like the fact that Juga is not a hack. If you get it all terribly wrong and lock yourself out, there is a way to put things right.

In order to get the best out of the product, you will have to take time to understand how Juga works. To begin, Juga is about taking a standard Joomla user group and restricting its permissions, not granting them. If you want a user to only edit one article, you must make them a Joomla Editor but then restrict editing rights to all but that one article.

Second, Juga works on URL strings that they call Site Items. In the example above, you would find the editing URL for the article (on the front and/or admin side) and give permissions to the Juga group your user was a member of. Since their group would not be assigned to edit any other articles, they would not have any access.

I have found the component very useful when it comes to creating multiple secure areas on a single site. Each secure area is for a separate audience, with separate content for each and never the twain should meet. I found that Joomla's broad usergroups does not support this approach. One registered user area is the same as another. With Juga and its dynamic menu module and a module to hide other modules, depending on user group, I have solved this problem.

All in all, a very good component that was worth paying for.

First of all: The Extension may do what it was planed for. The Rating is based on what I thought it "should" do based on the (spare) descriptions on theire Homepage.

I bought it because of that and it seems like it can´t do anything for me, so the rating is correct based on my goals. Two questions to the support just brought me short answers pointing out what´s "not" working. A one-liner with a link to the manual (that I didn´t find before) showed me, that JUGA will never work for me.

So what´s about it? JUGA may be great to limit access to Backend-Users. To adjust the rights for Components and so on. But it has no value for me on the front end.

What I was searching for was a component where I can give rights to the front-end-users so they can submit articles. Thes was the onlies real thing I needet and this is how I understood JUGA: Give my Front-End-Users the rights to create articles. But ... no way!

I can´t give without touching each and every user by hand. I have at least to take him into an JUGA-Usergroup, and this can´t be done in a batch, with a search or whatever, I have to do this for each and every single user.

But still, when I do it, the access to writing articles is not working. Because in the Front End he is still a "User" and a User can´t access to the "submit-article-things". So I also would have to change all "Users" to "Authors".

In Fact, JUGA could be a great component to manage the rights between different Admins. And if this would be described will it would have been fair. But in fact, let´s face the main line that JUGA is described with on theire own website:

"JUGA is a Joomla Extension that allows additional control over what content is available to which users."

That´s not right. It is worthless if you want to handle access for users. It´s for Administrators.

Configuration is much too complicated to set up a time-pressing project. Requires configuration of each article's item ID to be suppressed for specified users, therefore unusable for rich content sites in my opinion. Though it hacks J15's menu structure I'd highly recommend Community ACL - simple and time saving installation and configuration, does its job perfectly easy and convenient.

If you use Rockettheme templates and are looking to hide menus from non registered users, look elsewhere. I found JUGA to be too complicated for my needs and wasted my money since it will not work with my template. I should have asked before buying I guess.

I can only confirm what everyone else has already said - not only are the features of the product exactly what I needed, but the support is fast, courteous and expert.

I just wanted to let eveyone know how pleased I am with this extension and dioscouri.com in general.

Their support is amazing and the extension works as promised.

The product is fantastic, it does everything it says on the tin and much more. The quality of the documentation and tutorials is superb and got me up and running with this product very quickly.

Support is second to none and the $50 I paid was worth every penny. Response is lightning fast, and when I asked about adding functionality I needed for a special job, they added it, sent me a patch and rolled it into the core product all with 24 hours!

I needed a component to replace another ACL solution which I wasn't happy with until 1.5.6 arrives. I admit I was stumped and most frustrated, the component isn't always "Joomla intuitive", (following normal Joomla concepts).

The support I received was above and beyond anything I've received from any component/module developer to date.

Gives me more than enough confidence to highly recommend my clients and others to use Dioscouri components.

The component itself is terrific and the service is world-class. It works perfectly right out of the gate. I will definitely be purchasing more components from this developer. I am not into buying components, but when they work this good, it's way worth the money!