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Sorry if this has already been covered before (my searches of this thread didn't turn anything up, and I didn't feel like wading through all 1000+ posts !!)...

I would like to be able to present the list of articles and the synopsis (ie the thread/article list as GAS currently shows), BUT, I want to prevent users from certain groups reading the actual articles - basically the articles will be premium content and I want to provide a teaser (the synopsis) to encourage users to sign up so they can access them.

Using vBulletin permissions - I can either prevent a user seeing the forum (no good, since I want them to see the articles and the synopsis as a teaser), or I can prevent a user from seeing the threads in a forum (no good for the same reason - they can see the forum, but none of the threads/articles in it - why bother ?) ... I don't seem to be able to allow a user to see threads/articles in the thread list, but not be able to actually read the threads/articles themselves.

Any suggestions ?

The only way around this I can think of right now is to block access to the articles forum altogether for certain usergroups and manually maintain a list of articles and synopsis in another forum as the teasers. That sounds like a lot of work to me.

Thanks.