Forum Thread View

[chippy06]

I want to block certain users from viewing the posts but i want them to be able to see the forum and thread contents but everytime i set the permissions it does not allow that person to see the threads, it says that there are no new posts but there are posts in the box

[Floris]

To be honest, this makes no sense.

You do not want them to see the posts, but you want them to see the content of the threads.

Please be more specific.

[chippy06]

we want people to see that threads are there in forums but not so that people can open and read the post

[Onimua]

Admin CP > Forums & Moderators > Forum Permissions

Pick whichever usergroup you'd like to change the general permissions of, and in whatever forum. You'l be taken to a screen that gives you the list of permissions the selected usergroup has for that forum; you can change them there.

More information can be found here: http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/u...anaging_forum_

[Floris]

Onimua I have to correct you. I believe the user means that he wants a list of threads but not the ability to read content.

This is a usergroup option.

can view forum: yes
can view thread content: no
can view threads by others: yes

[chippy06]

done that, still does not work but it dont matter because now i cant get on my site cause it has not got php 4.3

[arlomedia]

a suggestion to make this more intuitive

I spent quite a while trying to get this behavior with vBulletin, then came here and found numerous posts asking the same question. Indeed, the "yes / no / yes" configuration does the trick. However, I don't seem to be the only one who didn't find this intuitive.

I think it would be easier if you simply reversed the second and third option in your control panel, like this:

can view forum: yes
can view threads by others: yes
can view thread content: no

When I was setting this up, it didn't occur to me that "can view threads by others" was required ... I had already set "can view forum" and that seemed like enough ... in fact, the "threads by others" option didn't make much sense to me since I was editing permissions for unregistered users and, by definition, all threads are "by others".

Anyway, I see now that the "view forum" and "view threads by others" options work hand in hand, and the "view thread content" does something a bit different. I'm pretty sure that if they had been ordered as shown I would have figured this out on my own, and I'm guessing some of the people asking about it here would have, too.