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SMF Support => SMF 2.0.x Support => Topic started by: Eksperience on March 12, 2017, 02:16:50 PM

Title: Private section
Post by: Eksperience on March 12, 2017, 02:16:50 PM
Hello world!

How can I make a section where only admins and the user who creates the topic can see his topic?

What I am saying is that the section is accessible by admins and normal users, but the normal user can see only the topic he created.
Title: Re: Private section
Post by: Illori on March 12, 2017, 02:48:29 PM
not really possible in SMF by default.

http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=2491 might do what you want though.
Title: Re: Private section
Post by: Linkjay on March 12, 2017, 03:24:56 PM
Yes, I had the same question you had and someone recommended me SimpleDesk (look above) and it works great
Title: Re: Private section
Post by: Arantor on March 12, 2017, 04:37:20 PM
SMF isn't designed to do what is being discussed, and SimpleDesk is the principle mod that can do this - while there are other mods, it's not possible to nail all the edge cases.
Title: Re: Private section
Post by: Eksperience on March 14, 2017, 12:36:37 PM
Ok thank you very much!
Title: Re: Private section
Post by: Aye Aye on March 19, 2017, 02:24:20 AM



I don't get into the hassle of using mods for this situation. There are two simple ways to do this without any mod:

1. Create a password-protected board, and provide your special users the password.

2. If there's only one special user, just create a new Member Group for that user, set up a new board and make it visible only to that Member Group.

Either of thee work fine.

Title: Re: Private section
Post by: Arantor on March 19, 2017, 03:43:21 AM
Password protected boards don't exist in SMF out of the box.

Though what you're proposing could mean a board per user.
Title: Re: Private section
Post by: Linkjay on March 19, 2017, 03:45:28 AM
Yes, I believe both of those solutions are highly ineffective and unnecessary and one of them, like Arantor said, won't even work with a default copy of SMF...

SimpleDesk, or any other addon like it, is a fairly simple setup and you get a nice ticket-like system for all of the site administrators to view and manage them.