I reported this to the ticket system on September 5 and as I have still not received any solution to this, I thought it would be a good idea to ask the community.
I want to have the titles of some forums visible to the public, yet all posts are for members only and should not be visible to non-members. This was working fine on vb3, but is acting strangely after my upgrade to vb5. This issue is preventing me reopening my forum.
I am doing this with forum permissions. I have been testing this on a specific category as follows.
Permissions for each forum:
Use Custom Permissions
- Can View Channels = Yes
- Follow Mod Rules = Yes
- All others = No
Although each Forum has the same permissions, they react differently. What is wanted is for the list of forums to be visible, but if you click on one of them, no posts are shown, from the point of view of someone who is not logged in.
These forums are visible, without the Last Post infos being displayed on the right when NOT logged in = As wanted.
- New Members
- History
- Microscopes
- Frequencies
- Pad, Plasma, etc.
- Events
- Technical Forum
- Real Research
- Other Topics
- German Forum
Then you click on each forum while NOT logged in, a few posts are displayed. None should be visible:
- New Members = 8 out of 575 topics displayed = Bad
- History = 0/57 topics displayed = Good
- Microscopes = 3/92 topics displayed = Bad
- Frequencies = 7/507 topics displayed = Bad
- Pad, Plasma, etc. 1/121 topic displayed = Bad
- Events = 0/38 topics displayed = Good
- Technical Forum = 2/567 topics displayed = Bad
- Real Research = 0/24 topics displayed = Good
- Other Topics = 5/227 topics displayed = Bad
- German Forum = 0/18 topics displayed = Good, despite "Can View Topic Content" set to Yes.
All forums should be empty when viewed, yet a few posts are showing in most of them. I have no idea why.
I have reindexed the counters under maintainance, etc.
Made no difference.
If I set "Can View Channels" to No, they are are no longer visible, but then that forum is no longer listed on the main page.
Why are a few posts displayed, and the rest not? It should either be all or nothing.
This affects other forums in other categories as well. This section is an example.
The first level support looked at it and agreed it was strange I gave them a copy of the database to pass on to the programmers to test.
I has also installed the vbDonate mod on the forum and was also having problems with that. Normal members were unable to see the donate buttons, yet they were visible to administrators.
I asked Fillip Hannisdal to help with the problem with the vbDonate Mod. This is what he reported back to me:
"I've determined the issues most likely stem from the fact that user group permissions haven't been set. However, when I attempt to set them, they do not save. Rebuilding bitfields doesn't fix the issue, which is the most common fix for this problem.
I can't wait to find out what vB5 has changed this time...
I'm still investigating, I'll let you know when I have more information."
As both issues appear to be related to faulty permissions settings, the two problems could be related, ie. have a similar cause.
To date, no solution has been found and I still cannot reopen my forum (with 13000 members bugging me for it to reopen).
Has anyone got any ideas. I have not heard anything else from the support team, so far.
I want to have the titles of some forums visible to the public, yet all posts are for members only and should not be visible to non-members. This was working fine on vb3, but is acting strangely after my upgrade to vb5. This issue is preventing me reopening my forum.
I am doing this with forum permissions. I have been testing this on a specific category as follows.
Permissions for each forum:
Use Custom Permissions
- Can View Channels = Yes
- Follow Mod Rules = Yes
- All others = No
Although each Forum has the same permissions, they react differently. What is wanted is for the list of forums to be visible, but if you click on one of them, no posts are shown, from the point of view of someone who is not logged in.
These forums are visible, without the Last Post infos being displayed on the right when NOT logged in = As wanted.
- New Members
- History
- Microscopes
- Frequencies
- Pad, Plasma, etc.
- Events
- Technical Forum
- Real Research
- Other Topics
- German Forum
Then you click on each forum while NOT logged in, a few posts are displayed. None should be visible:
- New Members = 8 out of 575 topics displayed = Bad
- History = 0/57 topics displayed = Good
- Microscopes = 3/92 topics displayed = Bad
- Frequencies = 7/507 topics displayed = Bad
- Pad, Plasma, etc. 1/121 topic displayed = Bad
- Events = 0/38 topics displayed = Good
- Technical Forum = 2/567 topics displayed = Bad
- Real Research = 0/24 topics displayed = Good
- Other Topics = 5/227 topics displayed = Bad
- German Forum = 0/18 topics displayed = Good, despite "Can View Topic Content" set to Yes.
All forums should be empty when viewed, yet a few posts are showing in most of them. I have no idea why.
I have reindexed the counters under maintainance, etc.
Made no difference.
If I set "Can View Channels" to No, they are are no longer visible, but then that forum is no longer listed on the main page.
Why are a few posts displayed, and the rest not? It should either be all or nothing.
This affects other forums in other categories as well. This section is an example.
The first level support looked at it and agreed it was strange I gave them a copy of the database to pass on to the programmers to test.
I has also installed the vbDonate mod on the forum and was also having problems with that. Normal members were unable to see the donate buttons, yet they were visible to administrators.
I asked Fillip Hannisdal to help with the problem with the vbDonate Mod. This is what he reported back to me:
"I've determined the issues most likely stem from the fact that user group permissions haven't been set. However, when I attempt to set them, they do not save. Rebuilding bitfields doesn't fix the issue, which is the most common fix for this problem.
I can't wait to find out what vB5 has changed this time...
I'm still investigating, I'll let you know when I have more information."
As both issues appear to be related to faulty permissions settings, the two problems could be related, ie. have a similar cause.
To date, no solution has been found and I still cannot reopen my forum (with 13000 members bugging me for it to reopen).
Has anyone got any ideas. I have not heard anything else from the support team, so far.
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