Sometimes you need to limit access for viewing certain categories for your users. With Subscription Plans App you can create a plan that will allow users to view categories you selected only when their plan is active. This is another way you can charge your users!
First, create New Joomla Group by going to
Users -> Groups -> Add New Group
Give your
Group Title
(1), and select
Group Parent
to "
Registered
" (2) (in certain situations you can use different groups, but for this tutorial we'll stay with "Registered") and click "
Save & Close
"(3)
Now create a Joomla Access Level that will allow users that are in it to access the category. For the convenience of this tutorial I've created Access Level "
DJCF-Restricted
" in Joomla.
To set up a new Access Level in Joomla, do the following:
In Joomla backend go to
Users -> Access Levels -> Add Access Level
Give your
Level Title
(1), and select
User Groups Having Viewing Access to
"
DJCF-Restricted
" (2) and click "
Save & Close
"(3)
Now navigate to Components -> DJ-Classifieds -> Categories -> New or if you're editing the category open it.
and click
Save
(2) (it's needed when you're creating a new category).
Once the category is saved, go back to the "
Access Restrictions
" tab and set as explained:
We need to create the subscription plan that will allow for viewing and adding the adverts to the category "
Restricted.
"
Go to
Components -> DJ-Classifieds -> Subscription Plans -> New
Here in " New " and " Params " tabs, you need to set all needed settings. You can learn more about subscription plans settings here .
This way after user purchases this plan he'll be automatically assigned to this Joomla User Group.
Things to check:
Now make a test if the plan was set correctly.
Go to your Subscription Plans page on your website's front end and purchase the Plan we've just created
After the successful payment the plan is activated (you can manually accept the payment in DJ-Classifieds Payment section)
Once the subscription from the Subscription Plan ends the user will be automatically unattached from the DJCF-Restricted user group and won't see the category "Restricted" until the plan is activated again.
This is how Subscription Plans App for DJ-Classifieds works.