[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by EasyTarget

Does this mean instead of adding new permissions to usergroups for the LDM that the permissions are embedded in the forum access like where you set whether they can edit their own thread, use thread ratings and stuff?

There are two levels of permissions:

a) permissions to 'do' things (e.g. create links, delete categories, etc), which are set in the LDM admin page per usergroup. This part is straightforward - it is easy to define which usergroups can or cannot 'do' things

b) permissions to 'access' specific links and categories. These are set by selecting a forum which has the required permission masks, and 'associating' it with the link or category, using either default_forumid or explicitly. The point is that, by using a forum in this way, it is possible to pick up the whole set of (possibly cascading) permission masks without requiring too much coding or new interfaces for the user. It also provides some coherence between the forums and LDM - there tend to be patterns of access that you want to allow or not. The problem with this approach is that it ties LDM to forums, which a number of people have found tricky.