Hiding content in articles for specific user groups

[dweezil]

I am evaluating vBulletin Publishing Suite 4.2.0 for a community project.

I am interested in hiding contents of articles from certain user groups.

I noticed there are several mods which allow you to do this in forums.

However, not in articles.

Are you aware of mods that allow you to hide contents in articles in the same way as in forums?

Awaiting your reply,

Thank you,

dweezil

[Lynne]

When you create an article, you will put it in a section. There are permissions you may apply to sections for each usergroup on whether that usergroup may view the section at all. You may want to try out the demo at https://www.vbulletin.com/admindemo.php


Lynne Sands
vBulletin Support Staff
vBulletin.org Admin

[dweezil]

That would set permissions on global article level.

What I mean is to limit access to PART(S) of an article to specific usergroup(s).

Very much what the "vFCoder Hide Hack 4.x" does for forums.

That way, you will be able to shield parts of an article to usergroups you specify.

Ideal for teasers: show the first few paragrahps of an article, for instance.

Just enclose parts of the content you want only certain usergroups to be able to see, in BBcode:

[SHOWTOGROUPS=15]...content...[/SHOWTOGROUPS]

I cannot believe that this is not already implemented in some way.

What good is any Content Management System without tools to manage accessibility?

--dweezil

[Lynne]

dweezil,

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Thank you.

[dweezil]

Of course I show up as unlicensed.

I haven't bought anything, have I?

Excuse me, but this is the Pre-Sales Questions forum, isn't it?

I am seriously interested in your product, otherwise I wouldn't put serious time in investigating it's features, don't you think so?

Can you recommend a way how I can limit access to parts of a CMS article to specific usergroups as I explained earlier?

Awaiting your reply,

dweezil

[Lynne]

Sorry, I hadn't noticed the forum I was in. When I go through the site, I view several threads at once and sometimes don't notice the forum.

We have no sort of teaser tag like what you are talking about. I would *think* you may be able to use, or modify, the spoiler tag to have it work for you and to only allow certain usergroups to be able to use it, but I am not familiar enough with the spoiler tag code to know for sure.

[dweezil]

Ahhh, that rings a bell.
I am going to check that out.

Thank you, Lynne!

--dweezil