Thanks Mark62 for your explanation of defaults.
I may have found my own solution. When creating a usergroup before I never noticed that there are some extra tabs, one of which contains these default permissions. I
think I can turn these off and effectively achieve the same as what I was asking for (turn of "Use group Default" by default).
Not having much luck doing so currently, mostly because the permission options under user groups are not identical to the options under forums.
I'm leaving that resolved tag up on the title though for the moment, because I am sure it must be the correct answer and am starting from scratch again to test it more scientifically.
I'm still stumped, so I'm back for help.
Here's what I hope to achieve. Thank you for letting me know if it is possible and how you would do it.
I have a couple of general Categories, each with a couple of general forums beneath them.
All user groups should be able to see these.
I also have 1 Category for specialist forums.
All user groups should be able to see this.
Under this specialist category I have about 100 (yep, one hundred) specialist forums.
I have about 100 user groups to match (1 for each forum).
The goal is to allow a user to register under just 1 user group, and then be presented with all of the general categories and forums, PLUS the specialist category but ONLY the specialist forum that relates to them.
I can achieve this goal, by visiting each forum permission page and from the usergroup remove "default user group", then put in (or take out) my preferred permissions.
This means in 99 of 100 specialist forums they would have no permissions (i.e. cannot view).
In the one relevant specialist forum I select full permissions (ie - they can view, and edit etc..). This way the user has a nice user experience because they don't have to scroll down through 100 forums to find their topic. Only the relevant one is displayed to them.
This method is a tremendous pain however. As soon as I add a new user group, the user group permissions are added to every forum, and I must go through all 101 specialist forums and hand-edit their settings accordingly.
So I felt the best option would be to set default user group permissions to hide ALL forums. Then I need only update manually the permissions in about 6 or 7 general forums, and one specialist forum. The rest remain hidden just as I wanted. I can handle okay this kind of workload to set up a new user group.
For the life of me though, I have not been able set up a user group with permissions that work in this way. I assumed it is either 'Can view board' or 'can view threads' that should be set to "no". But none of the four combinations of these two values (yes+no, no+no, no+yes, yes+yes) seem to create a default user group that will prevent access to all forums, but then later allow me to make select ones accessible by manually checking the permission boxes under the forum settings.
Hence my question: Can I have MyBB turn off "use group default", and leave all other check boxes blank, when it adds a new usergroup to every forum. This way when I add a new user group I could just 'turn on' access to just the few ones I want by checking the "use group default" box.
(2010-02-11, 03:19 AM)Zub Wrote: [ -> ]Hi guys,
I'm trying out MyBB and I must say I really love it. Easy to use, and with experimenting plus good use of search here I have been able to achieve most things I have wanted to try even though I am a forum admin noob.
My question is about forum permissions. Specifically under:
ACP -> Forum & Posts -> *Choose forum* -> Edit Forum Settings -> scroll to table at the bottom called "Forum Permissions in.."
Under each usergroup name is a checkbox called "Use Group Default" which is checked by default until I change it.
Q) Is there a way to turn this off? (i.e. box is unchecked when you add a new usergroup. And ideally all permissions set to blank).
I can discuss the motivation behind this question in more detail if required. I may not be asking the right question because I don't really understand what these "group defaults" are.
Thanks in advance for your thoughts/help.
Feb 12th - Answer:
Not possible in MyBB