User Groups and Permission Sets are ‘married’ in the definition of a forum (Manage Groups and Forums). or for existing forums – use the ‘View Forum permission’ button. Is this what you are looking for?

To be honest I am not sure what I am looking for!

Although what I am trying to acheive is:
All first posts by any new member has to be moderated before it appears on the forum.

Upon looking this is turned on in standard access of which I assumed all new members would be given by default? But still new members can simply post without moderation.

I wondered whether it was because I didn’t have anyone set up as a moderator as I assumed that admins would be moderators by default, so I set up a member and made them a moderator to test it, but when I registered as a new member I ran in to the problem of new members not being able to see any of the forums (outlined in previous post).

Have I got it all wrong? Is it the individual forums that have access (standard etc…) applied to them rather than members?

http://www.silverhairs.com/forum

Thx,

Simon.

Perhaps it would be worth you looking at our Getting Started section of the codex which explains in simple terms how user groups and permissions work and are set up.

As for moderation permissions – these are also explained in this article.

Thx I will read it through again. It all made sense when I built the site but now I have lost my way.

Any idea as to why a new user can’t see the topics/forums listed?

okay. after giving it a read, come on back if you things still are not clear…

Ok things are becoming clearer and I now realise that permissions and access are attributed to individual forums and groups and not the members themselves.

I have set up the permissions and access how I want it but can’t test it because I still have the issue where I register as a new user then go back to the forum once logged in as the newly registered user to find no listings for the forums in the body and can’t link to them using either the ‘new/recetly updated topics’ or ‘select forum’ dropdowns. (see screenshot attached).

so for new users, what usergroup are you having them put in? see this on forum – usergroups – map users to usergroups… and set up any mappings that you want… note that will only affect new user… but there is a button where you can enforce it for all current users…

and for that usergroup you have new users mapped to, have you assigned the usergroup and permission set to any forums?

New members have been left to default to the members usergroup.

It’s only new users I want to moderate on their first post. Of course I can’t tell if I have achieved this as I can’t make a post as a new user because of the issue above.

Thx.

OK – I have just seen the image you posted above and that is actually rather spooky… it is like the whole page template is missing as you should see something even if just a no records or access denied message..

1 – if you briefly switch to our default theme do you still get the same result and if so…

2 – Could you make me a members account so that I can log in and see this for myself? I would like to look at the html being generated.

Please PM credentials to both myself and to ‘Mr Papa’. Please include in the PM a link to your site, a link to this thread and brief reminder of the problem. And one of us will take a look for you.