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Hello,
a friend of mine asked me to help them with their site and the need of groups and permmissions. He told me he tried to use noixacl, but the result was he messed everything up and had to re-upload all the admin files (whole joomla...).

Well, I first searched the JED since it was a lot of time I didn't had the need for acl. I saw that noixacl had many good comments and few ones about the rough organizations of downloads and lack of documentation.

So I cleaned everything from previous install and decided to give it a try.

Result: I'll search for something else.

I consider myself quite expert. Few years ago I wrote a mini tutorial for JACL for italian community ant it won the contest for the best tutorial for joomla (in Italy).

I know ARO/ACO/AXO and in about 1 hour I understood I had to manually search for core adapters (!!!), install 'em and even give some permissions to super admin otherwise I couldn't access anymore a lot of things....

Now I understand my friend saying that after installing he lost his permissions as superadmin...

Ok, that's could be, but unfortunately I have access to things I should have not with a test account (registered) and I've no access to things I should with another account (new group).

So, maybe the component is not buggy, but for sure (1 millions of times sure) is not ready for production level, is not ready to be used by simple users.

And most important, it should be clearly stated that it could requires some hours just to create a new group and give it the permission to access some articles (the operations themselves require few minutes if you know what to do (but unfortunately it's quite hard to find the right documentation), but you need some hours to understand why it doesn't work).

If I read such a review, I would have avoided to waste 1 hour.

First of all I must say that this extension, even if full of problems as I'll write below, is the best for listings management for Joomla.

Unfortunately there are so many bugs! The problem is that the component as it was at version 2.1.7 (no more upgraded since I modified it too much to have a site working) should have been rated as pre-pre-pre alpha. In no way it should have been distributed to use in production sites (since simply there are so many features broken).

This said, if I would have known all these problems I would have gone as well with the component because as said, it's the best (about features richness), but at least I and my client would have been conscious that it would have needed extra work to fix all the things broken.

Now I quite fixed everything (something, according with my client will not be fixed) and I introduced many hacks to accomplish my client needs, this of course prevent us to continue with upgrading and support.

To be clear: I dont' want to complain. Just suggest joomclan to think if possible to revise their delivery policy.