For some reason admin accounts can use the link on profiles to "Find all Posts" but regular member accounts cannot. I can't find the setting to fix this. I have gone into usergroups > Forums & Posts > Viewing Options > and check-marked to allow "Can search forums?" but that doesn't seem to fix it. Any ideas?
I think group and forum permissions are pulled from cache.
Check AdminCP / Tools and Maintenance / Cache Manager, then check forumpermisions for 3 keys.
[canview] => 1
[canviewthreads] => 1
[canonlyviewownthreads] => 0
and usergroups for 2 keys.
[canview] => 1
[canviewthreads] => 1
You can verify the cache gets updated with a setting change. If cache is not updated, try rebuild cache.
I checked those and it looks the same as you posted above. Tried rebuild all in cache manager and still no luck. When I hit "Find all Posts" it acts like its searching but then doesn't come back with any results. Here's what it shows for a member account, but when I'm logged in as an admin it gets results:
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Maybe the "Can search forum?" checkbox for the forums in which the member has posted is unchecked for the usergroups of ordinary members.
You can access that checkbox at Forums & Posts » Options [beside a forum] » Permissions » Set Custom Permissions [beside a usergroup] » Miscellaneous
That looks like it could be it (thank you so much) Is there a way to quickly set this? because I have 10 member-groups that need to be updated and 15+ forums to update that in (so a LOT of changes if I do it one at a time).
I don't know of a way in the ACP web interface (perhaps somebody else does), but this database query should work, where
mybb_ needs to be replaced with your own table prefix if you've customised it:
update mybb_forumpermissions set cansearch=1
Then rebuild the cache as HLFadmin advised in an earlier post.
Thank you that worked like a charm.