[drfenning]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

As far as I recall, gottapixel is using LDM's forum-based permissions to control subscriber access, but it should also be possible using the regular LDM usergroup-based permissions.

You can associate both your LDM categories and entries with individual vb forums by specifying their 'parent forum' on the Add/Edit Category/Enty form. Then, users can only access these entries if they have "can view forum" and "can view others threads" permission for that forum. (It is also possible to create a vb forum which is in fact a link to an LDM category. In that way, you can kill two birds with one stone, by providing a direct link into LDM and also providing the forum from which to take the forum-based permissions.)

Also, categories (but not individual entries) can have different usergroup permissions, set using LDM/Add Edit Category/Usergroup Permissions. Have you tried using this approach?

Please get back to me if I have misunderstood anything or you need further help.

Perhaps it's my ignorance, but I am not having problems giving access to a particular usergroup but the timeframe that they are allowed to have access. For example, I have a registered user that purchases a one month subscription to the download manager and they can download anything they want for that timeframe. So I created a usergroup called "Club Scrap Subscriber". In VB, I keep them as a registered user and check that they have now have access to "Club Scrap Subscriber." Now I give only "Club Scrap Subscriber" usergroup access to the download manager to access links. Everyone else can view. Problem is...when that month is up, I have to manually go into VB and remove them from "Club Scrap Subscriber" usergroup.

So is it possible to use the "paid subscription" portion of VB to determine the timeframe that a user can be in a usergroup? You have a plugin that has time of day and amount they can download but I didn't see one for how long they can download. I would want to have three different subscriptions 1, 3 and 12 month...I could create three different usergroups for each time frame and change it in the LDM/users/allowances, but if they paid to extend their subscription would it lock them out from using it further? Can it be recurring?

I could also create three paid subscriptions in VB. But in VB's paid subscriptions, I can choose all of my other forums, but "download manager" is not a forum option to choose from. Does any of this make sense?

Here's my site: http://www.scrapoutsidethebox.com/fo...ocal_links.php

Thanks so much for all you do.

Dani