secondary usergroups

I enabled access to the arcade for a secondary usergroup while keeping it closed to the primary usergroup and they get an error that they cannot use it... is it supposed to be like that?

[MrZeropage]

you can only switch of primary or secondary usergroup, not using/checking both at same time ...

[Quarterbore]

I am struggling with this issue as well. I want to allow contributors to have access and when they contribute they get special privlideges from a secondary group. So, primary group can not use the arcade but secondary group is supposed to give access.

I would love some genearal advise on where to start looking!

I am feeling stupid but I found this insite my own vBscript:

vBulletin also allows users to belong to multiple usergroups. There are two kinds of usergroups, primary and secondary (also called member groups). A user can belong to only one primary group but can belong to any number of secondary groups. A user's primary group is used to define their base forum permissions; at a minimum, a user will always have their primary group's forum permissions. Secondary groups, on the other hand, can be used to grant additional permissions that are not granted by a user's primary group.

For secondary groups to be able to affect a user's permissions, the user's primary group needs to have the "Allow Users to have Member Groups" option enabled in the Usergroup Manager. The way the overlapping of primary and secondary permissions works is that the user is always given the "greater" of the multiple settings for the same permission. For example, if a user's primary group has "Can View Forum" set to No and one of the same user's secondary groups has "Can View Forum" set to Yes, then the user's final setting for that permission will be Yes. Numeric group permissions overlap in a similar way, except instead of Yes or No the user is given the more lenient of the two numbers. Possible applications of secondary groups for forum permissions include granting access to a private forum where multiple primary groups can have access. The primary groups in question would have null access to the private forum set on the Forum Permissions page. The secondary group would have all permissions set to No in the Usergroup Manager but would have forum-level access to the private forum set on the Forum Permissions page. The result of adding a user to this secondary group would be that its "Yes" permissions for the private forum would override the null access of their primary group. This is much more convenient than setting up redundant permissions for additional primary groups that have access to the private forum, which is what would need to be done without secondary groups.

If the user's primary group does not have the "Allow Users to have Member Groups" option enabled in the Usergroup Manager then secondary group memberships will have no effect on their permissions. Secondary groups serve no purpose in this case. The only reason this option should be disabled in a primary group is if the group is a banned group, in which case you don't want secondary group memberships to override the null access of the banned group.

So, just click the "allow sub groups" and it works :hurt: