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.

I needed an easy way to list articles in the frontend and this component does the job. Users see a table listing all the articles, when they were created, who authored them, if they're published and the section/category they're in, plus an Edit link.

Just set the parameters in the menu item to see all sections or a specific section, whether you want published/unpublished articles or both. Plus a few other things.

My only comments are that there's an option to give users a Delete article link in addition to Edit. You can turn off this function but even then, there's a box at the bottom of the table called With Selected where you can choose to delete articles. I think this may be a bug; if you don't allow delete functionality, there shouldn't be a backdoor.

When you select a Section in the menu parameters, I'd like to see an Uncategorized option available. If you leave the dropdown list set to All Sections, you will see uncategorized articles but you will see everything else as well.