Make custom catagorys appear {PLEASE LOOK}

[aceofspades]

Making a catagory invisible on front page

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I have an idea for my forum, but i need your help. Here it is, you have 10 catagorys:

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

1 is the main catagory with news and information, which will be displayed on the index to everyone. However, the other 9 wont be displayed on the forum index (set as inactive, but they can access it though a direct url link in a menu). So, i have my one catagory on the front with the news and info, and the other 9 can be acccessed through the menu on the top.

However, this is where i need a little of your IQ please. What i want to do is have usergroups that the members joins, like im a gamer, which then means the gaming catagory (for example, number 6) is now visible on the index, so this guy now sees catagory 1 and 6 on the index, but can still select the other catagorys from a menu. There are a number of ways this could be done, please help me think of a way that works and can be done!

I hope i have explained myself, please tell me how i can do this. If it cant be done on a default board, is there a mod i can get to do this? If the answer to both is no, would anyone be interested in a paying job to do it?

James

[Rich]

I can think of a couple ways to do this, but I am not skilled enough yet to do it. (At least not how i am picturing it in my head.)

I would suggest you don't add things like {PLEASE LOOK} to your title though. People will look and respond if they can. I personally find the added title annoying and have skipped threads intentionally when I see it posted like that!

[rogersnm]

can't you do that in forum permissions or just add an if statment to allow only usergroup id 6 to view the forum or what ever usergroup id you want it's pretty easy code...

[Rich]

From what I am gathering, using the conditions wouldn't work correctly. If they can actually use all the forums, then every usergroup has permission for them. If the permissions are assigned using the default system, the conditions would block specific groups from visiting specific forums even though he wants them all to be able to get into them.

[aceofspades]

Dont worrry, Colin F has told me how to do it

[rogersnm]

Would you mind sharing?