Forum permissions questions

[COUPONSAREMYGAM]

Hello I have a couple of quick questions that I am hoping some wonderful person here can help me with.

1st question: I have a publicly join able user group and I would like that user group to be the only persons to be able to post in one forum (and its sub forums) but everyone else can look at the posts. How do I do this?

2nd question: Currently we let our members edit their posts due to the nature of our content this is very helpful. But I would like to restrict the ability to edit posts in one forum on our board. Is there a way to do this.

I have searched and searched this board for answers but I think my search keywords are too generic and I get tons of results and I'm just not having much luck.

TIA

[deezelpope]

Well, for your first question, I believe you can set forum permissions, but as for the second question, I don't know...sorry.

[Michael Biddle]

well for the first one, set the primary usergroup access to not be able to see the forum, then allow the secondary to be able to once they join.

and for 2, i dont think that is possiable just with a setting, but you could use an if statement to hide the edit button per the forum.

something along the lines of

<if condition="$thread['forumid'] != X>EDIT BUTTON CODE</if>

where x is equal to your forumid

and that would be placed in the postbit or postbit-legacy template depending on what you use.

[COUPONSAREMYGAM]

I would like the primary usergroup to be able to see the forum but not post in it untill they have joined the usergroup. Is that doable?

I will have to see if I can get my tech guy to do the whole if statement (I dont do all that stuff one of my partners does) but thanks!

[Lauren123]

Originally Posted by COUPONSAREMYGAM

2nd question: Currently we let our members edit their posts due to the nature of our content this is very helpful. But I would like to restrict the ability to edit posts in one forum on our board. Is there a way to do this.


TIA

You go into Forum permissions in your admin panel. In there go in and edit each group under that forum to not be able to edit thier own posts. That is how I would do it.

[COUPONSAREMYGAM]

Ah ha! Thats easy enough thanks Lauren

OK I am running into a problem. It seems that the only way to get the joinable user group to be able to post is to make this thier primary usergroup yet I can not figure out how to do that without setting up members of this group by hand as thier primary usergroup.

Any suggestions?