[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by tomshawk

I see i'm not the only one

I forgot the mention the xml file, thanks for remembering, but even after uploading it, it failed, because it is newer then my VB3 RC3, so I manually installed it, over-writing the one there and telling it, to ignore the vBulletin version.

Any ideas AndrewD on the permissions problem. I tryed setting for -999 as well as setting it for an actual forumid for permisions

Sorry about omitting to say "upload the templates" in the instructions.

I have difficulty with understanding your error messages concerning editing categories. If the templates are correctly installed, the menus, etc should not even give you the chance to do something that the admin has forbidden.

My guess is that, because of the missing instruction to upload the templates, you have got a mismatch between the templates and the software.

So I strongly recommend that you actually do upload the templates into your forum directory, then rerun the installation script from step 1, rather than manually installing the templates via the vb admincp. The installation script does a certain amount of tidying up.

Please let me know if, having done this, you still have the same problem.


I should explain the permissions system:

There are two completely separate types of permission, which may be confusing:

- There is a series of "permissions to do something" (can_add_link, can_edit_category, etc.) These are set per usergroupid in the links admin page. These are initialised the first time you visit the admin page. By default, all the permisssion are turned on for the admin group only. You have to decide who else should be able to do things.

- The hack connects to the standard forum permissions system to define who can see what.

a) If you set default_forumid to a negative value (any negative value), this part of the system is turned off, and all users see all categories and entries.

b) If you set default_forumid to the id of a real forum (you can get these id numbers by hovering the mouse over a forum link - it's the number N in the links f=N), then - by default - new links and categories will be created with the same viewing permissions as that forum. In other words, if a user can visit forum N, she can see the links that have been created. If she cant visit forum N, the links/categories will be invisible.

c) Regardless of the seeting of default_forumid, if you turn on can_set_permissions for a particular usergroup, then users in that group can over-ride the default_forumid and choose another forum setting instead.

Confused or clear?