Possibility of no registration required in one forum?

[Universal Sea]

one of our associates wants to set up a forum on our board that is very general and basic, where to post you are not required to register, you can just type a name and then submit your post. for people stopping by the board and wanting to contribute something immediately rather than go through the full sign-up process, this could really be beneficial. naturally, if individuals are already registerd on the system, they can still post.

has anybody else achieved this yet? and if so, how/what do i have to do?

[Wayne Luke]

In your Options part of the control panel you must set it to "RequireRegistration" = No.

Then in the Permissions section you must change the permissions for the Guest group so that they can't post in the forums that are restricted.

[Brett]

We have the latest version of VBulletin and want to do the same thing. Allow unregistered users to post to one forum but require registration to the other forum. I cannt see an option called 'Requireregistration' under options. there is 'Allowregistration' but this implies locking everyone out of all the forums to me. Is this the same thing?
Do I have to set up a separate user group of some sort?
The unregistered users dont even want to see a 'register' prompt of any sort. ie carte Blanche for that forum only!

Hope you can help?...

[Wayne Luke]

For that forum only you would go to the Permissions section.
[list=1]
Click "Modify Forums".
Go down to the user group "Unregistered/Not Logged In"
click on "add forumpermission".
Choose the forum you want them to be able to post in
set the permissions accordingly.
Save
[/list=1]

Repeat for each forum you wish to set this for.

[Brett]

Thnx Wluke. I think Ive done this but...
being of a pedantic frame of mind..
1. I use the control panel /admin/index.php to modify things and under there I can see Forums with submenu picks of Add,Modify,Order and Moderators.
2. Clicking on Modify allows me to edit the Forum attributes but NOT to go to - Go down to the user group "Unregistered/Not Logged In" ...
3. so I gave up on that and simply went to: User Groups and Permissions, sub menu Modify, and then to the unregistered/not logged in / edit option where I duly chose the forum and set the permissions.

Please confirm this is correct and if possible explian why I have different paths to getting to these options?

My version is:
vBulletin Control Panel (Version 1.1.4)


Brett

[Wayne Luke]

That is correct... I said go to PERMISSIONS not FORUMS in my post.

[Brett]

Doh! yes I see now, slaps self on forehead....

Many thnx, very good response btw...