Restrict Administrator Permissions to a single forum

[Scarlet H]

I ran several searches, but did not see anything that would help. What I need is for a single group leader to have permissions to set moderators for their group (which is confined to a single forum category), but no other administrative priveleges on any other forums. Hopefully someone out there has an idea of how to do this.

Thanks in advance for any ideas!

[jambo310]

I am prety sure you can edit something like their face permisions or something and choose which sections/forums they have power in however I think they still maintaine a small amount of power in every forum (e.g. editing all posts or super mod status or something)

[Scarlet H]

Well, if they are an "Administrator", they can add moderators to any forum. In my case, I need them to only be able to do so in their specified forum. Supermoderators and moderators can be restricted to forums/categories, but cannot add new moderators...

[jambo310]

Go to your admins profile and then go to user setings then edit administrator permisions and if that doesnt work I suggest making A new user group called administrators but the same as super mods

[snakes1100]

Here you can use this, it does work in 3.6.x as well as i use it myself, all though it is something you will have to admin yourself, it does fit what you need done.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=93543

[Paul M]

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[Scarlet H]

Thanks Paul,

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Originally Posted by snakes1100

Here you can use this, it does work in 3.6.x as well as i use it myself, all though it is something you will have to admin yourself, it does fit what you need done.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=93543

I'm not sure this is going to do what I need. Basically, I need a hack that will allow me to restrict an individual admin for each forum category, rather than having them as a site admin...doesn't look like that is what this mod does. There are 22 different "local" groups on one big "national" site and I don't have the time to go in and create moderators for each one. I want to make the group leaders a special admin for ONLY their forum category and that's it. Any ideas?

[floydian1]

Did you ever find anything to help?
I am looking for the same thing.