[Lynne]

I just don't really know permissions - that is why I haven't posted any more in this thread (and I have no idea what other thread you are talking about).

What I was thinking is that you would want to set something like $vbulletin->bf_ugp_forumpermissions['canview'] to true if a certain parameter is passed. But, I've never played with it and so I really don't know if that would do it. You can try using a plugin before line 444 and setting that and $vbulletin->bf_ugp_forumpermissions['canviewthreads'] to true and see what the results are on a test site. If changing the permissions that way does what you want, then that is probably the easiest way to go about it.