[tinkerbell]

Hello Mouse_cats,

You have called your administators chat and vip sections, I am going to assume you mean seperate forums within yoru forum.

There are a few ways of hiding forums:

1. Admin cp/forums & moderators/Forum Manager

Go to the administrators forum in this list and choose edit forum
Set 'Display order' to 0
Set 'Forum is active' to No

Using this way will hide your forum to all those that do not have the forums url so make a note of the forum id number at the top when you are editing the settings.

If you want to make it more secure so that even if the url is known differnt usergroups cant access it you need to do the following

2. Admin cp/forums & moderators/forum permissions

then deny the usergroups access for those groups you dont want to enter.

If you want to keep the forums visible and just want to prevent some members from entering you can apply step 2 on its own and the unauthorised members will just see a message telling them they dont have permission to enter that area.

Hope this helps, the best way to learn how to get what you want is to spend time playing with it making sure you make a note of what you change so that if its not what you want you can put it back to how it was.

regards
Karen