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So far, I'm very happy with this product. Their support team is very helpful when you post a support ticket, always responding in a prompt fashion.

With it, I'm able to expand the number of user groups on my site, show/hide menu items based on what group a user is in, and add/remove users to/from groups based upon submitting forms.

Very useful and I don't regret purchasing this product at all. Well worth it.

JUGA just works. It is somewhat time consuming to set up, and you do have to set permissions for everything, but it is extremely powerful, with many options for how you control content or backend access.

Nearly all the complaints I had about it have been addressed in the new release.

Well worth paying for.

This is the first time i am messing with Joomla! I purchased Juga and had some issues with it. All problems were due to my little knowledge of Juga and were resolved fast and professionally by the support team!
Thank you guys for putting such an excellent component together! Does everything you say it does!

For what I wanted to do (just hide some menu items in the back-end for a single user) this was a pretty complicated way to go. I really struggled with the concept of how the whole system worked initially, but now that it is working I can see the enormous power that the system has. A quick start guide would be nice, just to get you going as I found the manual quite difficult to comprehend.

I also expected in the back-end to only see what I wanted to see, instead all the menu's are there, just access to them is restricted. Though this is preferable to hacking Joomla core code I believe.

Though - that being said it was worth paying for the subscription. When I gave up (turns out dummy here hadn't turned the plug-in on) I contacted the support guys at Juga. The logged in and configured it for me. Very friendly helpful support. I highly recommend them and their product.

I've to implement a homepage for our village. And we would like to dispatch the work of creating content to different people. Therefore I need a component to create more groups and permissions as Joomla provides by default. And Juga was the best choice for that. At the beginning I had some problems with my site because I don't use the frontpage as entry point of the site. But the guys from dioscouri.com helped me very fast and in an excellent manner!!! Thanks a lot! Great job done!

We are using JUGA on several complex portals, including an Intranet. Among other neat features, this extension empoers us to define which task of a give component can be performe by whom. Granularization of privileges at its best, in deed.
Furthermore, restrictions can be applied on content items, components, modules and menu items.
As the subject line suggests, it does not patch a single file. Instead, restriction policies are enforced through a plugin.
Finally, it supports seamless integration with AEC subcription plans.

We have been setting up an intranet for our company, and have a multitude of access restrictions, especially within DOCman. With the latest version of JUGA (v1.01) we are able to restrict and allow where we need to.

The support you receive from the people at dioscouri is prompt and efficient, charter membership has it's perks!

During last 3 days we've worked hard on a new version of a corporate site.
The target was to realize a good business site presenting products (no VirtueMart, only text in content), consulting skills and so on with latest Joomla (1.5.3) on Windows.
On the other hand the site must have a good group access in order to deliver reserved information (invoices, updates, etc.) to customers.
Components choosen are Remository, RSForms!, JoomFish and Juga for Group Access.
I think that Juga is really a good choice for this kind of situation.
The only issue we've found is with JoomFish Abstraction Layer: Juga must be published BEFORE JoomFish plugin in order to work as expected.
At this moment we still have a pair of issues with main menu (due to JoomFish bugs, not Juga) and a sitemap (actually this isn't present in Joomla).
On Joomla 1.0.x we have developed a lot of site with Byostech JACLPlus but it is an hack to Joomla, the concept behind Juga is totally different.
We're considering to develop some components with Juga integration, it's easy and support has given us reply in hours.

After reading all the reviews, I took the advice to download the paid version right off the bat. I am glad. It saved the time of evaluation and worked exactly the way I needed it to work.

Thanks for a great extension.

dear joomla people

I have recently joined joomla community. I have my own 3D visualization company and all i wanted to have a basic website where i can show our work and have private access to our selected clients. I wanted to upload some spesific files to some clients and back and forth.

Because i am so new to whole deal and i want to control this whole process by myself (some CAD files are so important) i asked from JUGA developers to help me.

And Now Awesomeness begins.

They not just helped me but they did whole installation process for me. I was having problems with my template, ftp and some other features. They almost solve everything less than 2 days. I got over 15 support ticket replies in one day. Can you believe this? WHen i was banging my head to the wall, they were guiding me through. When i was going to dead end..they simply took over the process and solved it for me...

And they are SUPER kind people. Wish i could get this kind of support from every other software i use. Actually you can get this kind of support only from your mother you know:) I dont think my mother answered my stupid questions 15 times in a day :)

Juga Guys, you just ROCK and with this SUPER attitude you are truely unique...I wish you all the

BEST

(my only wish is to get video tutorials to extend my JUGA skills:))

I had been working with JACL which was great when it worked, but seemed easily broken by installing other extensions.
JUGA is so much better. Easy to install and no core file patches.

I think the documentation could be improved with some more in the 'how to' section but this was more than compensated for by the superb response to help tickets. I even had a reply on a Saturday afternoon!

The cost is trivial compared to the amount of time it has saved me.

So far it is working perfectly. Pretty easy to define viewable content in articles with {jugaacess MemberGroupName}content{/jugaaccess}. My reasons for only rating 4/5 are as follows:
1. Requires legacy support. Until Joomla! 1.6 is released with a real built-in ACL, I need this extension (it's the only one reasonably priced that actually works for me). However, I would really prefer a J!1.5 native extension.
2. Assigning content to pre-existing groups is easy. Creating those groups, assigning them to users, and assigning entire content pieces to groups, isn't especially hard, but is VERY tedious. It would be nice to be able to filter the list of items by more specific types, such as articles and menu items. Would also be nice to have a listbox of available groups at the top of the user page, and be able to select a group from the list, checkbox to select which users to add to it, then have an "add selected users to group" button.

FIRSTLY: pay for the full version! It is well worth the money just for the support that is offered.

SECONDLY: I had a project for a client who wanted bells and whistles for membership levels. I looked at all the available components that claim to do what Juga does and finally decided it was Juga & AEC for me and my client. I then found that it did not do exactly what I wanted it to do...DON'T STOP READING HERE! I then contacted their support and asked for some customisation and help to install and within 12 hours I had what I needed. Admittedly it did cost me a small investment but it was worth every cent and my client is over the moon about his site.

It will be Juga for me every time when it comes to membership sites and defining access for particular users.

Great work - keep developing because your this component is one that will go far towrds improving the membership features of any site.

The new Juga is Awesome! I'm ecstatic to see the juga Team really ramping up the development of this much needed component. The current price is more than reasonable. Don't waste your time on the version 0.2 version for free. This gives you only a taste of what Juga can do. The newest 1.0 and 1.5 versions address most of the problems in the older version and they keep coming out with more features to make Juga the future of ACL in Joomla! Why hack Joomla when you can juga your joomla site! It already works with AEC! What else do you need? Mark my words, Juga will be the number one ACL component for Joomla in a very short time.

We have all been wanting some sort of Group/user management and JUGA provides this well.

After installing and reading through the tutorial, the simple management of users and assigning them to groups and then content is easy.

The added menu module is excellent as you can hide menu points based on the group permissions.

Support is also excellent, it took the support team a few hours to sort out a bug and post the new amended code for download.

Highly recommended
thanks for a great addition to the extensions.

I was unpleasantly surprised to discover that you can't control the content users see but only what they can click on and read. So, I wanted to assign an article to a user in a new group created with Juga and have that article only show up if the user is authenticated and part of the group.

That is not possible. Instead you can somehow attach the article to a mod_mainmenu and then it will display all the articles. If the user does not have access they will find out AFTER clicking on the article by getting an error message that says "ERROR: Unauthorized Access"

This is not acceptable because I need my users to also remain my friends. So, I am back to the drawing board looking for a software solution that will do what I need. And, I will hope that I can get my money back since I purchased 1.5 version for Joomla 1.5.1 under wrong assumptions.