Have a quick read through of our Getting Started introduction in the Codex – especially the section on permissions and access control. That should explain it. And yes – it IS controlled through the permissions. And we are here of you get stuck…

Thank you for the help. I followed your advice and I’ve had more than a quick read through of the Getting Started section in the Codex.

I’ve read 

http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/getting-started/controlling-access/permissions/

and

http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/getting-started/controlling-access/user-access-and-permissions/

The forum has three groups: Guests, Members and Moderators, …and it has the six default permission levels: No Access, Read Only, Limited Access, Standard Access, Full Access, and Moderator.

From the above links I read that I need to assign permissions to a group. I want to set it so that the Guests user group has Read Only permission. I think I get that now.

http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/getting-started/controlling-access/permissions/

Gives an overview, and 

http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/getting-started/controlling-access/user-access-and-permissions/

covers a sample with three user groups and four forums, but it doesn’t tell HOW to set the permissions.

So in the User Groups section of the site if I click Edit User Group I can’t set a permission there (unless I don’t see something).

And in the Permissions section I click Edit Permissions for the Read Only Access and I don’t see User Groups to select.

So I’m lost. I cant assign permissions to user groups and I can’t assign user groups to permissions.

Where and how do I tell our Simple-Press forum that Guests should have Read Only permissions?

Thank you for the help and patience. I thought this would be more obvious and easy to set.

Chris

Its three parts…

first you set your permissions on forum – permissions – manage permissions… this is where you create your rule sets… you dont assign to anything or anyone here, just configure the various rule (permission) sets you might need…

second, you assign your users to usergroups on forum – usergroups – manage usergroups… so you can create as many various usergroups as you need and assign users to the various usergroups… users can belong to one or many usergroupgs… but by being in a usergroup does not get you anything… yet…

third, now you have to marry a permission set (from step 1) to a usergroup (step 2) on forum – forums – manage forums and groups… that now means that users in the usergroup you assign to the forum will get the permission from the permission set you married to the usergroup… so you can assign as many usergroups/permissions to a forum… you can also globally apply the set to a group or to all forums…