Private Forums In Online.php
 

Currently, when a mod is viewing a topic in a private forum (ie the mod forum), the thread name he is viewing is shown in online.php the title can contain sensitive material that I don't want the normal users to see, ie discussions on banning users, site updates. Rather than having more careful topic names I think it would be a better solution that simply states 'Private Forum' if the user does not have access (or is not usergroup x,y,z) rather than having the topic name and a link to it (tho they will not have access to it)

Can anyone help ? :)

This is a well-known "bug" in vB 2 that has never been solved. You can fix it easily in your Admin CP.

1) Go to your Admin CP
2) Go to "Forums & Moderators"
3) Click on "Permissions"
4) Set up EACH AND EVERY Private forum with permissions to NOT allow registered members to enter or read the private forum - you must do this for EVERY INDIVIDUAL private forum - if you rely on parental permission, this is where the bug will show up.

Once you have done so, members will only see staff "Reading thread" or something like that, with no title.

That has done the trick!
Thanks alot :)

Isn't there a code hack to make it possible for this to be fixed using parental permissions? Doing it for each and every private forum is annoying, especially if you have a fair few usergroups.

-Abbas

Not that I'm aware of. You just have to do it the manual way.