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Assign permissions to private forums

TS Terri Stratton
Terri Stratton
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I’ll try explaining things, but not sure I’m using all the correct terminology.

As our forum consists of about 95% private forums relatiing to a specific event, I’ve set up a user group and permission relative to each event.  I’ve assigned each user to the correct group with the corresponding permission, but I don’t see an option to deny access to other groups.  I set up a test user account with a single permission, but I can still see other groups and forums. 

Is there a way to have all forum permission listed when managing groups and forums so that I can deny access to them?  I could add each individually, but it’s taking way too much time adding each of about 30 perms to each of the 30 or so user groups as I have to update after each one, then reopen, etc. 

What’s interesting is that I’ve had a couple of forums open with all listed, but only a couple out of all of them.

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MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
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not sure I follow you…

when you create a group or if you edit a group, you can set the default permissions for any new forums… you can include a few or all user groups with a permission…  but as I said that is only for new forums… 

for any existing forum, you can edit the forum and assign any user group a permission, including no access, to that forum…

or you can apply a global permission to all forums on your site with forum – forums – add global permission set…

and worth noting, that if you do not assign a user group any permission set for a forum, that is the same as no access… in order to have any access to the forum, the user group must get a permission set on the forum…

also, keep in mind what happens if a user is in multiple usergroups on the forum… all the permissions the user gets are or’ed and the best wins…  so if they get a specific access from a user group/permissions set pair on the forum, it wont matter if a different user group/permission set pair on the same forum attempt to deny access…

might be worth reading:  http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/getting-started/controlling-access/