Applying Rules either aren't working, or I'm not getting it

I read the documentation in the Solution Recipe and one thing stood out. The different Access Levels made sense, but when the Administrator rule is applies to the pages with a value that equals three, How does this give Access to the two levels below? Shouldn't it be less than or equal to 3?

Is it necessary to check for the presence of the Session that holds the User ID AND the Access level, or is just the access level enough?

Finally, when I go to set a rule and choose the Grant Access (Rule) and the Not version of the rule, nothing seems to change on the page code-wise - is it supposed to or is this change made in the Helper File?

Ok, I went back into the videos and learned how to make groups and it works fine. Except for one exception, and I can't figure this one out.

When trying to access a restricted page via a bookmark or direct link, it takes me to the login page as expected. The login page is set to direct to a certain page upon successful login, and the go to previous URL box is unchecked, along the the other box, and both lines of code end in FALSE as they should.

But it always tries to take me to that original direct link. If I log in with an ID that has the access, that's where it goes, not the link specified in the dialog. If I try logging in with an ID that doesn't have access to that page, it just loops me back to the login page.

How do I prevent this?

on the login page, set the action of the form to:

 action="<?php echo $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]; ?><?php echo (isset($_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"]) && $_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"] != "")?"?".$_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"]:""; ?>"

Thanks Jason, I did get that to work - but I had to remove the second PHP statement.

Does that sound right? To clarify, my objective was to always go the the specified page in the login behavior, no matter what page was attempted to be accessed via a bookmark.

I misunderstood that you wanted to only be directed to the success page specified in the login behavior.

in that case, then yes, only use the first part of the code in the forms action:

 action="<?php echo $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]; ?>"

Good deal. Now I have the solution for both scenarios should I need them.

Thank you again for the excellent support.

you're welcome.