Private Forums

[agoratim]

Hey folks,
I'm wondering if anyone knows of any mods that would allow me create a forum in which all usergroups are denied access by default. VBulletin's current behaviour is to allow access to all usergroups when the forum is created. I'd like to flip a switch in the forum manager that says that a specific forum is private to all usergroups by default. I could then selectively allow usergroups to access the forum.

Consider the situation where you have a thousand usergroups each with their own private forum. It wouldn't be so great to have to actively deny access to a new forum for each of these usergroups. It would be far easier to deny access to everyone once at the forum level and the override that denial at the usergroup level for the one group that needs it.

Thanks!

[amykhar]

This isn't exactly what you want, but it may work for you. Create the forum. Set it to displayorder=0. Nobody can see it that way.

Go to the forum permissions screen. Click deny all. This prevents any users from accessing it. Then, go in and allow the usergroups that you want to have access.

Finally, set the displayorder to what you want it to be.

[agoratim]

Doesn't quite do what I'm looking for but you did give me an idea so thank you!

One thing I didn't mention from above is that the private forums and usergroups are being created and destroyed by an external system rather than being done by hand. The number of private forums will exceed several thousand and each will have an associated usergroup that has access to it.

amykhar,
Your suggestion was a good one but the real problem is that whenever I create a new forum and usergroup I need the existing forums to remain private to the new group. So if private forums for Group A already exist and I create Group B I don't want Group B to automatically have access to Group A's private forums. The situtation gets worse when I have a thousand groups that I would need to update simply because I created a new private forum.

Any suggestions?
Thanks