Forum..HELP!

[abudhu]

Hi: This is probably to Mark mostly...

Hi Mark, I have recently set up a Forum of my own for my Fraternity. However, I am having a rough time figuring out all the Admin stuff. Hope you can help me out.


Here is my list of things to do/Problems:

1) (I have noticed it on this Site) and thats! When a user in NOT logged in they do not see certain categories/forums...how do I do this?

2) How can I lock an entire Forum section to certain users (i.e Brothers vs. Pledges)?

3) For some reason, its not letting me change the layout. I change the colors in the control panel yet it does nothing...Whats going on here?


Well those are 3 questions for you to tackle currently.

Thanks.

[abudhu]

I solved Number 1...

2 and 3 are still up...but i think I might know how to do 2...but tell me anyways!

[fischerm]

First I'm assuming you're using phpBB, since thats what this is, and that's all I know :)

Sicne you solved #1, I'm also guessing you've found the administration panel and have poked around in it.

In order to show certain forums to certain people, you have to create some groups, put people into groups, and restrict access to certain forums based on group. So make some groups in the 'Group Admin->Management'. Pick a current user for the moderator, and make it a closed group. This means only the board admin or the group moderator can add/remove people from this group (no self membership).

Next go to 'Forum Admin->Permissions' and select the board you want to control access on, and select 'Private [Hidden]'. This option means that only people who can use that forum can see it. Next head over to 'Group Admin->Permissions' and select a group, then go down the list of forums and grant/restrict access to certain forums based on the group.

Finally, you have to assign people to groups, this is done outside the admin panel, in the 'Groups' link at the top of the main page. Select the group you want to work on, and then add people to it. There's no way that I've found to add multiple people at once, so its tedious at first.

That should do it. If you want help integrating the authentication with U of A's webauth let me know, it's not too hard and I can just give you some modified files.