| Re: Groups/Ranks/Users [message #2308 is a reply to message #2304] |
Tue, 07 May 2002 15:27   |
Ilia
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In our permission system you do not attach groups to forum but rather add forums to a group. This is the same way file permissions work on Windows and UNIX, where you create user groups, which themselves have users and then assign resources, (files) in our case forums to those groups.
The admin can define the settings that the group manager can control for the users in the group via the admin control panel, the admin can also make the groups "inherit" settings from other groups.
For example, the admin can make the "VIEW" permission be inherited from "group A". When that permission is changed for Group A, all the groups that inherit this permission will automatically have their setting changed.
When a new forum is created a group with 2 users (Anonymous & All registered) is automatically created to control the permissions for that forum. The permission values of those 2 users are obtained from the 2 "super groups" "Anonymous" & "All Registered".
There is indeed a problem that you cannot add "All Registered" users/groups once they are deleted, this is a bug and will be addressed shortly.
You attach forums to a group using the multiselect in the group manager. Here is the screen shot of the page, the multiselect is surrounded by red border. (refer to the attached groupmgr.png)
This multiselect MAY be empty if you Bulletin Board has no forums.
When you add a user the permission of the user added previously will be selected as default, so adding large amount of users simply involves entering their usernames into the text box. I don't think you can get any easier then that.
New groups CAN be created by the admin(s) via the group manager and the admin can define which forums those groups will control. Using the Group Manager the admin can also define the group manager(s), there can be more then 1 as well as define what permissions the group manager can control. The admin can also define inheritences between groups.
To access the admin group manager, click on the "Admin Control Panel" and then click on the "Groups Manager" under the "User Management" heading.
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