[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by KW802

In hindsight... yeah, I could see how that description could be interpreted a few different ways. That option was added as a result of some confusion surrounding forums that guests aren't allowed to see. For example, if you had a forum named "Staff Only" and is only available to your moderators then when your moderators went to the cv_rss_feeds.php page they would see that forum listed. The concern and confusion was that that the forum isn't supposed to be shown to everybody. In reality, though, when a non-moderator went to cv_rss_feeds.php then the "Staff Only" forum would not be listed since they didn't have access to the forum. To make life a bit easier the option was added so that by using a usergroup 'model' for the listing then everybody would see the exact same forums listed regardless of what their permissions really were.

I've set it to "blank" on my system. When I view it as a Usergroup 2 (Registered Member) the display of the mod's RSS pae looks exactly the same as when I view it as a Usergroup 1 (Un-registered Guest), yet their should be forums that the "guest" does not see at all? Am I still missunderstanding this function. Blank (or 0) should pick up the more restricted "Guest" privileges and not display those forums?

Originally Posted by KW802

I'll give a hesitant 'yes' to that one. The script 'external.php' that comes with vBulletin (and is what actually generates the RSS feed) will use the user's permission if they are logged in else 'guest' permissions will be used. That means if your moderator goes to http://www.yoursite.com/forums/external.php then they will see posts from all forums that they have access to, including the "Staff Only" forum, but if a non-moderator or somebody who is not logged in goes to the same URL then they won't see the "Staff Only" posts.

I couldn't make it work that way directly out of the box using either the Tristana reader or Yahoo. I searched around here and found this:

External Data Provider Usergroup/Cookie Setting 2.2

Once I installed that mod along side yours, I was able to read forums the way you describe, that previously gave me the error above with Tristana that require Registered(Usergroup 2) access. I still get the same error using Yahoo though. Tristana permits someone using their client to put in a username and password for each feed if required, but that function didn't I(and still doesn't) seem to make any difference in controlling whether it can open up and get access to any feed. This additional mod seems to do that through the "cookie" thing.

Originally Posted by KW802

In I do some odd jobs but not a lot these days (the day job takes precedence). But, if I'm understanding your other post correctly, a think a plugin might handle what you're looking for. If I am interpreting it correctly you have a forum that might be named "Special Forum" that several usergroup are allowed to post into but when the RSS feed is generated for that forum then only threads from usergroup X should be shown. Is that what you're after?

Close...

I know I'm explaining my needs badly, but in simple terms....

I would like our various members to have the convenience of using RSS, Yahoo, or the other agents you supported, to stay remotely in contact with new posts made on our site, BUT without having to go there in log in. I assume that's what RSS feeds are designed to do... a "push" kind of approach to data?

Now, here's the catch ... I'd like them to have EXACTLY the same access permissions to view forums and posts remotely using whatever agent they choose, as they would have if they had logged on directly.

Is that even possible?

Thanks again for your support and feedback ... much appreciated. :up:

Regards,
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