User groups and private forums

[Mark Hewitt]

ARRGHH!
Just had a terrible time trying to do something as simple as add a new moderator and give them access to the private forum. Ended up locking myself out 3 times, having to go into the database and readjust my user group so I could get back into the control panel.

Can somebody [b]please[/b] give a step-by-step easy to understand description of how to set up user groups and private forums. I had to switch off my private forum I just can't get it to be properly private :(

I anyone tell me what my correct setup should be, I have a simple situation there is myself and two moderators. I need the two moderators plus myself to have access to one private forum and nobody else to be able to see it.

Help! This stuff is driving me round the bend!!!

It worked before but neither setting the forum to be private nor adding forum permissions for every type of user and setting everything to no makes the forum invisible, whats gone wrong???

[Edited by Mark Hewitt on 06-09-2000 at 09:06 AM]

[Mark Hewitt]

If it helps here is what is in my database for forum permissions. The members forum is no.14

forumpermissionid forumid usergroupid canview cansearch canemail canpostnew canreply canadminedit canedit candelete canopenclose canmove
19 14 14 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Edit Delete
16 14 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Edit Delete
13 8 16 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 Edit Delete
0 14 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Edit Delete
12 3 15 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 Edit Delete
14 14 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Edit Delete
20 14 10 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Edit Delete
17 14 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Edit Delete
6 3 13 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 Edit Delete
22 14 16 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Edit Delete
21 14 7 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Edit Delete
23 14 9 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Edit Delete
24 14 13 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 Edit Delete
25 14 12 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Edit Delete
26 14 15 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 Edit Delete


[Edited by Mark Hewitt on 06-09-2000 at 09:38 AM]

[Mark Hewitt]

Can nobody help with this??

[Craig A]

Forums > Modify > Find forum and click edit > Switch forum to private forum

This will then make the forum invisible to everyone, bar logged in admins and moderators. Worked for me anyway...

[Mark Hewitt]

Yes exactly that is how it should work. Indeed that is how it did work. However performing those actions no longer results in the forum being private - it is open to the world for everyone to see.

Something is obviously wrong here, how come anyone can see what is supposed to be and is selected as a private forum?

[Craig A]

It is probably stating the obvious, but re-check your usergroups - make sure you didn't accidently add permission for the 'Registered' group to view the forum.

[Mark Hewitt]

User levels Unregistered, Lot logged in and awaiting confirmation each have a forumpermission for the private forum but all the option are set to 'no'.

You can see this in the dump of the database I did above forum no 14 for user types 1 2 and 3 all set to 0.

[werehere]

Under general options there is now:

[b]hideprivateforums <Yes> <No>[/b]

Select 'yes' here to hide private forums from users who are not allowed to access them. Users who do have permission to access them will have to log in before they can see these forums too. This option applies to the forum home page, and the Jump To... box.

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See this post of mine:


[url]http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=802[/url]


Is this what you are speaking of?:)

[Mark Hewitt]

woohoo it works :D

Cheers!