User groups/Role administration and forum post access

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6/14/2011 6:29:37 AM
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User groups/Role administration and forum post access

Hi,

 

I was wandering if there is anyway of denying certain users the rights to posting to the forums using the standard mojo forum module. For example I have managed to set up two different groups in the  'role administration' section. One group is for free users and the other full subscribers. I would like to be able to only allow full subscribers access to post in the forums yet still maintaining access to the free users to view posts.

6/14/2011 2:19:55 PM
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Re: User groups/Role administration and forum post access

It isn't currently possible. In the current implementation users with view permissions on the page can post and users with edit permissions can moderate/edit or delete any post.

I've added a wish list item for this in our project tracker but not sure if/when we would implement it. If we did implement it, it seems it could be confusing. An unauthenticated user would see the prompt that you must sign in to post in the forums and then they sign in and still can't post would be frustrating. So we would need to think through how to present these messages to avoid frustration. Implementing the permission requirement would not be technically difficult, figuring out how to keep it friendly is the trickier part. I guess making it possible to edit those messages is what would be required but we would need to come up with some good default text for those scenarios.

Best,

Joe

6/15/2011 3:19:40 AM
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Re: User groups/Role administration and forum post access

Thanks for getting back to me Joe and adding to the wishlist.

 

Do you or anyone out there perhaps know of any forums I can integrate into Mojo that will allow user group control ?  I have been looking at YAF but so far haven't found any clear documentation as to how I go about implementing it.

 

Cheers,

 

Craig

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