[darnoldy]

Originally Posted by Flexo

Does anybody know which one I?m talking about?

Yup, just installed a version of it on my site. Its really quite simple:

<if condition="$bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] == '1'">
    <!-- stuff for guests goes here -->
</if> 

<if condition="$bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] == '3'">
    <!-- stuff for unconfirmed folks goes here -->
</if> 

<if condition="$bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] == '7'||$bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] == '5'||$bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] == '6'">
    <!-- stuff for staff goes here -->
</if>

You can build a conditional check for any user group you've set up--look in the admin control panel to find the groupid--in any template you want. If you want to show stuff to everyone *except* a group, use this form:

<if condition="$bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] != '1'">
    <!-- stuff NOT for guests goes here -->
</if>

You can use this test for lots of things:

• Customized header messages (I call them newsflashes and put them elsewhere)

• I hid the forum stats from everyone except staff

• I'm thinking of hiding avatars (actually all profile info) from guests

• show ads only to certain groups

Hope this helps.

--don