stardotstar
04-15-2010, 09:11 AM
Hi all,
I have done a bit of searching but seen nothing standing out so far.
What I have a need for is a kind of personal or private forum within the forum structure that is maintained and password protected by the member who owns it.
I have a competition submission category and forum in which challenges are set and people are encouraged to post responses by a certain date.
Formatting and layout and general editing becomes a bit time consuming so I want people to be able to build their submission as a thread or post somewhere on the boards that is effectively private (even from admins unless they specifically need to violate it - like PMs)
I note the password system for securing Private Forums but that means that the admin still sets the password.
I can think of ways of doing this by allowing moderators to change passwords and then setting the forum to a single group and make the member the moderator or something like that ?// is that how it would be accomplished in the standard system?
Is it done with social groups?
Anyway I am thinking this kind of structure:
->Challenges Category
--> Challenge Type 1 Forum
--> Challenge Type 2 Forum
--> Challenge Tyne n Forum
-> General Category
--> General Discussions Forum
--> Admin and Member Service Forum
-> Private Forums Category
--> Member X Forum
--> Member Y Forum
--> Member n Forum
In the Private forums category forums are created by admin and then the user is assigned to it and prompted for a password to set and then only they can see it - and Admin can only see it if they use Admin power to change the password and use that password to go in... That sounds ok?
TIA for suggestions guys,
Will
BTW I know that phpBB now provides for a "save" so that posts can be built/edited and tuned etc before "submitting..." this is another way to skin this particular problem in a way but not quite the same as having a true "space" for personal use.
I have done a bit of searching but seen nothing standing out so far.
What I have a need for is a kind of personal or private forum within the forum structure that is maintained and password protected by the member who owns it.
I have a competition submission category and forum in which challenges are set and people are encouraged to post responses by a certain date.
Formatting and layout and general editing becomes a bit time consuming so I want people to be able to build their submission as a thread or post somewhere on the boards that is effectively private (even from admins unless they specifically need to violate it - like PMs)
I note the password system for securing Private Forums but that means that the admin still sets the password.
I can think of ways of doing this by allowing moderators to change passwords and then setting the forum to a single group and make the member the moderator or something like that ?// is that how it would be accomplished in the standard system?
Is it done with social groups?
Anyway I am thinking this kind of structure:
->Challenges Category
--> Challenge Type 1 Forum
--> Challenge Type 2 Forum
--> Challenge Tyne n Forum
-> General Category
--> General Discussions Forum
--> Admin and Member Service Forum
-> Private Forums Category
--> Member X Forum
--> Member Y Forum
--> Member n Forum
In the Private forums category forums are created by admin and then the user is assigned to it and prompted for a password to set and then only they can see it - and Admin can only see it if they use Admin power to change the password and use that password to go in... That sounds ok?
TIA for suggestions guys,
Will
BTW I know that phpBB now provides for a "save" so that posts can be built/edited and tuned etc before "submitting..." this is another way to skin this particular problem in a way but not quite the same as having a true "space" for personal use.