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scuc:
Hi all – I have set up one board with 3 categories;

1. Corporate
2.Franchise Owners
3.Contractors

I would like category 1 to be ‘read only’ for categories 2 & 3 (the only ones I want to give ‘new posting’ privs to is the CEO and two SVP’s).

Category 2 will be restricted to Franchise owners and only they (along with category 1) will be able to see and post there.

Category 3 will be able to ‘view’ category 1 only but able to post in Category 3

I created ‘member groups’ and played with ‘board and member privs’ but just cannot get my head around how to go about this – any step by step would be greatly appreciated!

I also went throught all the docks but again, I can't seem to figure the order or way to set something like this up and yes, I'm a 'newbee'

Thanks,

Chirs

Storman™:
Your terminology isn't quite right so can you clarify if you mean Category or Board ? (you can't have one board with 3 categories as you've stated).

Normally you'd create the Categories on your forum and in each Category you'd create one or more boards. Consequently, can you clarify how you have this set-up as the advice will differ depending on how you have it.

So do you mean you have one Category with 3 boards in it ?

(Maybe a screen shot might help if poss.)

scuc:
OK, I have 3 boards - a. Corporate, b. Franchise and c. Contractors

I want to let Corporate see and post on all three borads - Franchise and Contractor should be able to 'read' corporate (but not post) on Corporate.

Contractors should be able to 'read' corporate but not get to Franchise and of course they can post on there own board (Contractor).

MovedGoalPosts:
You've done the first part of setting up your forum topic areas and categories.

Next you need to set up membergroups for your various user types, say Corporate, Franchisee, Contractor
admin > members > membergroups > add membergroup
Select how users are added (post count is not going to be suitable), Start with permissions based off a regular user (you'll edit these later), and then check all the forums you want that user group to be able to see.

Now comes the clever part in assigning a group of permission profiles to each forum area, rather than having to go through this for each forum category one by one.
admin > members > permissions > edit profiles.  Create a new profile for each of your user types.  I'd suggest you use slightly different names from your membergroups and forum areas, just to highlight the difference, maybe HQ, businesses, workers.
Start by assigning permissions as default user.

Now assign the permission profile groups to the boards
admin > forum > boards > modify boards
Click "modify" for each board and assign a profle
Thus for exec team news you assign HQ, Franchise General Discussion gets businesses, Contractor Training gets workers.

Now finally go back and check you have the right permissions for each profile for your board areas:
admin > members > permissions > edit profiles
select worker
You should see a list of the membergroups including guest, regular, administrator and your Corporate, Franchisee and Contractor.
Click modify against any of those, and you can check and assign what you want these user group to do and that should then assign that permission set to all of the boards using that profile.
now repeat for the other profiles of business and HQ

scuc:
Will give this a try - this is the only answer I have received that makes any sense!  Again, thanks!!

Chris

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