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Hello Dunc again,

Lets see if we can get you right, I will do a dummy run on my forum and then copy what i did here for you. Feel free to IM me on yahoo, not to worry we will get you sorted.

Karen

First method if you have a usergroup for your housemates, make sure this is the only usergroup they are in.

ok here we go:-

Big Brother House (main forum for competition, settings and access normal for all)

Diary room 1 - Housemate 1

• 1. Create subforum as normal - Diary room 1
  
  2. Go to forum permissions and under the forum diary room 1 change permissions for housemates usergroup to deny all
  
  3. Go through the other usergroups - staff, admin, registered users etc and edit their permissions to what you want them to be able to see/do.
  
  4. Go to profile of Housemate 1 and under the access masks change his setting for this forum to grant him access.
  
  
  Diary room 2 - Housemate 2
  
  5. Create subforum - Diary room 2
  
  6. Go to forum permissions and under the forum diary room 2 change permissions for housemates usergroup to deny all
  
  7. Go through the other usergroups - staff, admin, registered users etc and edit their permissions to what you want them to be able to see/do.
  
  8. Go to profile of Housemate 2 and under the access masks change his setting for this forum to grant him access.

and repeat for every contestant and diary room.

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Method 2 if you dont have a seperate usergroup for your contestants

Diary room 1 - Housemate 1

• 1. Create subforum as normal - Diary room 1
  
  2. Go to forum permissions and forum diary room 1 change the other usergroups - staff, admin, registered users etc and edit their permissions to what you want them to be able to see/do.
  
  3. Go to profile of all Housemates in turn except housemate 1 and under the access masks change their settings for this forum to deny them access.
  
  
  Diary room 2 - Housemate 2
  
  
  4. Create subforum as normal - Diary room 2
  
  5. Go to forum permissions and forum diary room 2 change the other usergroups - staff, admin, registered users etc and edit their permissions to what you want them to be able to see/do.
  
  6. Go to profile of all Housemates in turn except housemate 2 and under the access masks change their settings for this forum to deny them access.

repeat


This works in my forum (v 3.5.4) but I dont know if you have any addons etc that might affect this process ie vbadvanced

Hope this is helpful and works for you in my opinion method one is the better of the two methods

Karen