Permissions

[puternohow]

On the other format; I could edit permissions on an individual basis. Can this be done and I am missing it, or is that no longer a feature?

Some mods are new and the newbies and the mods can't have the same privledges; yet the newbie status seems to override the global moderator status.

[[Unknown]]

On the other format; I could edit permissions on an individual basis. Can this be done and I am missing it, or is that no longer a feature?

Some mods are new and the newbies and the mods can't have the same privledges; yet the newbie status seems to override the global moderator status.

The other format?  Which would that be?  If you mean YaBB SE, it had no member-specific permissions at all... or group-specific, even, really.

Just remember that permissions add together.  Deny is negative, Allow is positive, and disallow is zero... essentially.

If you deny a newbie from doing something, that is like BANNING.  It's not saying no, it's saying I HATE ANYONE WITH LESS THAN FIFTY POSTS.  It's a very strong thing... disallow is not as strong.  It just means "ask your mother".

If no one says yes, then the answer is no.  But if mommy says yes, (where mommy is another group they are in...) then they can - unless ANYONE said no.

See, permissions work like in the real world.  If you ask Dad, and he says NO, but mommy says YES, you still can't do it.  In this case, Newbie might be Mom, and Global Moderator could be Dad.

As the permissions manager will tell you - you should avoid deny.  It is only for cases where you want to, for example, disallow anyone in the Jail group from sending pms.  It's not for saying they can't do something - that's what disallow is for.

-[Unknown]

[puternohow]

I understand what you are saying. I think the Yaab was altered by our webmaster to do as I mentioned perhaps.

Here is case in point. Would like the mods to see 'who's Online' but not guests or members. How do you get around that?

Thanks again~

[[Unknown]]

I would disallow "Unregistered Guests" and "Ungrouped Members" from viewing "Who's Online".  If any other groups existed that were only for display, I would disallow it from them too.  I would also disallow it from Newbies and other post groups.  I would have no reason to use deny on any of these.

Next, I would ensure Global Moderators and any other groups I wanted to have access had permission to view "Who's Online".

Then, only Moderators would be left.  Because Moderators are only that when they are actually viewing or doing something to the board they moderate, I would create a new group (such as Staff) and put all of the moderators into it.  I would then make sure this group too had access to view "Who's Online".

No need for deny, see?

-[Unknown]