Private forums restricted to specified usergroups

[skerjean]

In the 'Already suggested' thread, I see suggested features include password-protected private forums. This is a good idea, but I would also add the ability to create private forums only available to specified usergroups.

This features is included, but restricted to admin and mods only. Rather than having a forum displayed but inaccessible to thos without the password, I'd prefer setting a usergroup which can access it and have the forum invisible to others.

I'm the webmaster of a computer game developper website and would gladly use this feature to run a private beta-testing forum. Regular users would not even see the forum and beta-testers would be members of the 'beta-testers' usergroup so everyone know who they are.

So I like the first idea (pw protetion) but I clearly see a need for the other type of private forum I'm suggesting.

And as the feature already exists for mods and admins, I guess it wouldn't be very hard to modify it so it work with other usergroups as well.

[tubedogg]

Originally posted by skerjean
This features is included, but restricted to admin and mods only. Rather than having a forum displayed but inaccessible to thos without the password, I'd prefer setting a usergroup which can access it and have the forum invisible to others.Usergroups > Forum Permissions > forum name > usergroup name > [edit] and set the approrpriate permissions. Repeat for each group. Setting a forum to "private" makes it so that without editing permissions, only mods & admins can see it, but that's not the only way to make a forum invisible to certain users.

[skerjean]

Well, thanks. I should have known this.

It's a good thing you replied this. I was just experiencing problems with forum permissions and didn't know it was that. After you told me this, I had a look at it and solved my other problem too.