Additional Usergroups?

[EZ-Dozet]

This may be a dumb question but I am still boggled.

I have never used this feature and the explantion it gives me doesn't explain its use.

I have mostly used VB2?? and jsut started using VB3

VB2 never had this option and if I give someone a Primary Usergroup say Membership, why would I give them an additional usergroup option? Just doesn't make sense. Maybe I just don't see what you all see. What is the main use of haveing addtional usergroups.

In VB2 if I wanted members to view forums that others can't see then I create a new usergroup and adjust the permissions? I move that member to that new Usergroup.

THanx in advance

[Colin F]

This allows you to combine that.

Say you have three forums, a public one, and two private ones (A + B)

registered users have access to the public forum

now you want users to be able to subscribe, to either A, B or both.
when they subscribe, they'll automatically be added to the specific usergroup.

In the vB2 Version, you'd need 4 usergroups:

- registered
- registered + A
- registered + B
- registered + A + B

now think how many usergroups you save if you have a much more complicated setup...

[EZ-Dozet]

I was beginning to think that. I jsut couldn't see outside the VB3 box

That will definetly help me loose usergroups.

ust so used to the VB2 set up