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TeresaMiller:
I'm brand new here and wasn't sure where to post this, so if you need to move it I understand.

This is my very first time ever managing a forum, and I must say I love how easy SMF is!

Right now, I have a question though. I want to do one category where I allow members to create boards. (Kind of a member's bulletin board.) Is there a way to do this? And can it be set where the boards are alphabetical?

Or is there another option that would work better? I'm creating a community for writers and self-publishers and would like to have a section that allows for a more member information than just a member profile. In other words, they can tell more about their skills, books they've written, link to their websites and products, etc.

Thank you!
Teresa Miller

K@:
'allo, Teresa! Welcome to the asylum forum!

I'll move this to a more appropriate board. :)

Then, I'll have a go at typing-up what you need.

K@:
Right. Done that.

Here goes with the "OMG!" stuff. ;)

If you go to Admin>Permissions, you can click on "Modify", beside your membergroups.

In there, you'll see a heading "Carry out administrative duties" and the subsection "Manage boards and categories".

You COULD give your members that permission.

Trouble is, it'll give them the permission to alter ALL/ANY boards, including deleting them.

Not good, I suspect.

I wonder if there's a mod which will help you with what you want...?

Gimme a mo and I'll see what I can find.

Arantor:
Sounds to me like you'd be better off installing one of the blog mods rather than the amount of code change required to do member-specific boards.

K@:
Pity the "Member Specific Permissions" mod never got updated, coz that might just've done the job. :(

Apart from Arantor's point, the only way around it, that I can think of, is to get your members to ask you to create them a board and then let them play with it.

I wonder if Jade uses some kind of system, to do this, on her site?

I'll ask her. :)

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