[smirkley]

Have tested it and saw that vBulletin automatically handles forum permissions. The user following a link through the poll will receive a message telling him/her that "...he/she do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:..."

Don't know how it's done on the CMPS side. Keep us posted

The problem I have with the member group permission masks is basically with the totm poll topic created by the modification, not with cmps.

A scenario if you will,...

1 - totm topic created by cron for the month, as expected by proper operation.

2 - someone nominates a topic that lets say is just spam. (dont ask me why, just assume it happens)

3 - staffer sends nominated topic to trash bin or staff forums for some reason, but basically nominated topic gets taken out of public or normal member view.

4 - guest/member views totm topic with poll results, and "hidden" topic that is now normally unavailable (yes vb will block access of course by permission masks), but the topic title still shows for all to see.

Basically I was wondering if the modification that generates the poll and displays, can be made to utilize the vb member group permission masks to filter topic titles (as well as links) to the nominatedpolls links. I know I am asking for coverage of a fairly rare condition, but there are occasions where the title ought not be publically displayed for the community benefit. I just am looking for an automated functionality to member group permission mask topic title filtering, to prevent from having to adjust the poll choices manually in the event it is necessary.

Was thinking that the permission masks for vb ought to be utilized whilst generating the view of the totm topic poll, or at least the topic list in the poll may be refreshed using permission masks on the next cron job.

Hope that helps.


(but this is unrelated to my cmps integration efforts fyi)

Thanks again