How make forum visible only for guests? Mean main page is login page.

[musman1986]

Hi,

I have all of my forum visible to guests but i want to make some changes. Changes like having the forum only visible to members not guests but on the same hand it should be accessed by the guests if they know the url.

For example When some one opens my forum url they should see login page but if they have followed a url to the forum e.g http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=135 They should be able to access it.without seeing the no permission message.

Hope you understand my question.

[Wayne Luke]

I have all of my forum visible to guests but i want to make some changes. Changes like having the forum only visible to members not guests but on the same hand it should be accessed by the guests if they know the url.
There is no easy way to not show a forum and still allow access to guests if they have the URL.

Using Template Conditionals would be messy and difficult. The best way would be to add a bitfield to the forum definition and use a plugin to evaluate that. You can get help with this at www.vbulletin.org.

[musman1986]

I have asked there too but got no reply.