Hi,
How can I make 1 or 2 members to be the moderator of one or two boards?
Should I make a new usergroup for each board? because I have lots of boards (254 and adding...)
How does it work?
Thanks
no. moderators are assigned in the board settings - not by group
So where can I add a member to moderate a board?
I didn't find it in board setting.
you can do it by group, by using a permission profile assigned to the board, but that means the user is in the group. but this not our recommended method.
when you edit a board, it has an option to add a moderator.
Found it, thanks.
Now how to rename their position? I wanna say that this member is the "Moderator of this specific board"
you can with a membergroup but otherwise you cant.
Hopefully they add this to the 2.1 final. Anyone knows when approximately they would release it? less than 1 year?
1- it will be released when it is ready.
2- there are no new features being added to 2.1 - else it would never be released
are you actually using SMF 2.1? we dont recommend using it live.
Yes I am using 2.1. Because I really need a non-WYSIWYG editor + like system.
And now I don't know what happened that although "Disable WYSIWYG editor" is checked, but it's still WYSIWYG. That last button dissapeared. I don't know how and why.
Well, 2.0 ships with a WYSIWYG editor that can be disabled, and there's no shortage of likes mods for it.
But you'd still have the same problem with management, and unless you have a few million posts, 254 boards is probably way too many anyway.
I had 2.0. I didn't find a way to disable WYSIWYG, so I upgraded to 2.1. Could you please help me with disabling it in 2.0 and having a normal editor?
Thanks
you cant downgrade to SMF 2.0 from SMF 2.1. do you have a backup that you can use to restore back to SMF 2.0?
Yes, I do have a backup of my DB. I should remove all folders and install 2.0 in the same folder.
well we dont recommend people use SMF 2.1 live in the first place. if you dont mind loosing topics/messages/users that have been made since you upgraded you can and should downgrade. once you do then you should start a new topic for your questions in the SMF 2.0 support board.
The answer will be basically the same, though: you still have to make a member into a moderator board by board (or use profiles) and either way, 254 boards is still almost certainly waaaaaaaay too many.
I downgraded to 2.0
I wanted to import members, boards, categories tables to a new database. For boards and cat. I had to delete 1 column to be able to copy the tables, but for members table, the differences in columns were 10, so since I have only 4 members so far, I thought it would be better to create the members again.
Do you think that was a wise thing I did ? :-\ Looks like the forum has no problem.
that is why we asked you if you had a backup to restore. if you dont then dont do what you are trying unless you know what you are doing.
I have a backup of my forum db, but in 2.1 version. But now that I'm looking more, looks like they're not compatible. So I should either make the boards and everything from scratch, or stick with 2.1
I wish the final version on 2.1 would release soon :( or there was an easier way to make the boards.
The easiest way is to MAKE LESS BOARDS.
I sincerely doubt you need 254 of them. I'd be genuinely surprised if you needed 100 of them.
It was a huge VB forum with more than 330k members, but because of some problems now I need to start it from scratch. Not all are boards, most are sub-boards.
So now I started to make boards again for SMF 2.0
If it had a more friendly UI for making boards, that would take a lot less time.
For example a + sign under each category and main board, would add a field as a sub-board(without refresh). Then write the name of the board, and Save. There are a few boards that I need to change the permission for. Then I could handle that with refreshing page, since they're just a couple.
Except if you're starting from scratch, you don't have the presumably millions of posts, so 250 boards/sub boards that are all empty just discourages people from posting.