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I’ve got a follow-up question that is closely related to this topic.  Is it possible to display a group’s title?

There are these standard variables that are identical and I really don’t understand why.

group_id

member_group

Both of these contain the ID number of the group.  It seems like “member_group” would contain the ‘title’ of the group in which the member belongs.

Is there a way to extract and display the member’s group title?

Hmm, not that i’m aware of. You could put an exp:query tag inside an {if count == 1} conditional?

Well with some trial and error I came up with this:

I used butcher’s idea about creating a member in a “client” member group, clicking the “Include user in PUBLISH page multi-author list?” for that particular member, creating a new entry and selecting the particular member in the author list. Then instead of using “{logged_in_member_id} variable inside the author_id=”” weblog entries parameter”, I just used “username=“CURRENT_USER”” parameter in the weblog entries tag in the “client_access” template group I set up to show the clients files. This template group can only be accessed by those in the “client” member group. Now when a user/client/member logs in they only see entries that are authored by the respective user/client/member. This seems to work for me pretty well. Hope this might help someone in this thread.

Now all you need to do is add a layer of abstraction onto the file names of the downloads, which Robin Sowells download lock module would do nicely 😊