Time for action – tell Joomla what the group can do

Let's give the Contacts Administrator permission to log in to the backend:

  1. Go to Site | Global Configuration | Permissions. Select the Contact Administrator user group. The permissions for the group are shown.
  2. For this group, change the Admin Login permission to Allowed:
    Time for action – tell Joomla what the group can do

    If you were to log in to the site as a Contact Administrator now, you'd be able to access the backend, but there would hardly be any functionality available at all—you'd just see the backend interface with just a few menu options (allowing you to edit your account profile).

    So now that we've set the proper permissions on a site-wide ...

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