Costum User ranks for Admins, moderators etc

[LandsHeer]

Hello,

I'm pretty new to SMF and I'm working on a nice forum for a game mod site.

Some of us developers will be on the forum as well and I dont want to have the same ranks for them as the normal users.

So for example:

Administrator                             Normal member
Level Design                              Newbie

For the normal members i set up all the ranks, but how  can i do it like for the admin, that i can place their development field there ?


Kind regards

LandsHeer

[ascaland]

So simply you just want to disable the post-based membergroup from appearing under their names? I beleive SMF 2.0 RC3 doesnt have that by default. Im going to double check.

[LandsHeer]

kind of,

I,m using version 1.1.11

I dont want to have the same post based member groups for admins, moderators etc.

But i want them for normal users.

So for example

LandsHeer
Administrator
Level Designer (not newbie or some of the ranks for the normal forum users)

[ascaland]

I see what you mean, I can get around to this today.

[LandsHeer]

OK

Yea its like on other forums, So that the count of posts has nothing to do with the rank for admins, mods developer etc etc, so they have a fixed rank for non-post based user.



would be awesome if you could do something about that.

I'm using SMF version 1.1.11 and a costum Theme (DarkBreak_1111)

cheers

[ascaland]

Do you want them completely stripped of any post-based membergroups, or do you just want to hide that information?

[lord alibaski]

In v2.RC3 all you do is

Go to Admin - Membergroups - Post count based groups & modify each group - In the Required posts just set everyone to 0 this removes the post based group for everyone.

If you want to set it just for newbies and so on create another member group in the Post count based groups edit the amount of post required choose which board you want the post based to appear in then do as below.

Group Type: Select Group Type  Private (Membership must be assigned)
                                                              Requestable (User may request membership)
                                                              Free (User may leave and join group at will)
                                                              Post Based (Membership based on post count)

[LandsHeer]

I dont wanna hide them at admins or mods.

here is a example:

user ranks go from 0 posts to 2500 (7 ranks) after they reached a amount of posts the rank will change (for example, from newbie to veteran)

But I want to register some people of the Developer Team on the Forum, they get Administrator rights.

So normaly there would be (cos they start at post 0)

Dev_Name
Administrator
Newbie (requier post count)

But I want that i can give him this:

Dev_Name
Administrator
Level Designer (has nothing do to with post count)

So that other people can see what position he has in the Team and that this has nothing to do with how many posts you have, this rank for developers will not change exept i change it in the admin settings of the board.

For all other users, it will continue normally with the ranks

0 posts = newbie
150 posts = veteran
etc
etc

When i create a membergroup called Level Designer then I have the problem that it looks like this

Dev_Name
Level Designer       <- Want this as Administrator
Newbie                   <- Dont want this there

I hope it is clearer now 

Its hard to explain but i hope it got it this time right 

Kind regards

LandsHeer

[ascaland]

I understand you dont want the newbie rank to show up, but what you can do is create an additional member group for these developers. Just head into their profile and change their group from there (thats 1 example) and check off the membergroup(s) you want them to have. As for the post-count membergroups, in the Admin CP head on over to the Theme Settings tab in the Current Theme section and at the bottom there should be a check box saying,
Hide post group titles for grouped members?
If you check that option, post-count membergroups will not be shown for members assigned to non post-count groups.

[LandsHeer]

I made a picture



so

LandsHeer = Username
Administrator = Regular Group ( must be there for developers etc)
Private First Class = post count based (dont want this ranks for admins or other regular groups.)

This is what I would like:

LandsHeer = Username
Administrator = Regular Group
Level Designer (f.e.) (so that it will show the field of expertise, but i dont know how i can change the private first class to Level Designer only for        regular based members :S

[ascaland]

Yes I know, and I just answered how to do that above..

[xenovanis]

Even if the postcount based title is disabled, it will only show the one primary group this member is in. Which is, in this case, administrator. Since additional groups are also designed to be hidden groups, their tiltle won't show in the profile information in Display.template.php.

Most easy way to accomplish this is using custom titles. To prevent your users from changing these titles, first disallow the permissions to edit the custom title for each group.

As an administrator however, you can still change this title in your members profile -> Forum Profile Information -> Custom Title.

[ascaland]

Even if the postcount based title is disabled, it will only show the one primary group this member is in. Which is, in this case, administrator. Since additional groups are also designed to be hidden groups, their tiltle won't show in the profile information in Display.template.php.

Most easy way to accomplish this is using custom titles. To prevent your users from changing these titles, first disallow the permissions to edit the custom title for each group.

As an administrator however, you can still change this title in your members profile -> Forum Profile Information -> Custom Title.

Are you sure additional non-post-based groups wont show?

[xenovanis]

Are you sure additional non-post-based groups wont show?

Yes. That's how it is designed by default. May I ask why you think otherwise?

[ascaland]

Are you sure additional non-post-based groups wont show?

Yes. That's how it is designed by default. May I ask why you think otherwise?

I see your right, I must have gotten confused by something else. However I am pretty sure there is something that shows more than just the single group, maybe a mod or such. 

[xenovanis]

This one perhaps?
Show Multiple Badges (AKA Stars)

[ascaland]

Thats probably it.

[Joker™]

Actually this might be related somehow to topic. I was thinking of tweaking code in such a way that post group rank don't appear for admins and which every group you select. And for rest of groups post ranks appear and everyone can see it.

[LandsHeer]

There is no option for me to turn off the post based rank for admins. I went through the whole admin CP and cant find anything. I went onto the member profiles but there was nothing about it as well.

I only could give them a regular group, but that is not what i want, cos they have the admin group. But there is still newbie under it



that is the forum Profile Information but it says nothing about costum title :S

[Joker™]

There is no option for me to turn off the post based rank for admins. I went through the whole admin CP and cant find anything. I went onto the member profiles but there was nothing about it as well.

I only could give them a regular group, but that is not what i want, cos they have the admin group. But there is still newbie under it

Naah , i was just saying that we can make something like that, by default there is no such settings available. If i get a chance in next week i might try my hand on it.

Not sure even can write a tag code these days .