How Do I set Up A Board Where Topics Must Be Approved.

[Xarcell]

Here is one screenshot of a page (photoshop them together) so it;s the whole page.

[Xarcell]

Do you have post group permissions enabled? Is the user a member of more than a single group?

Post groups have no inherited permissions.

[Tyrsson]

Xarcell, if it were I. I would take things back to the basics. Kill the permission profiles, and strip the permissions back to the basics. Then, rebuild the permissions and set the one board to use local perms. This would isolate the problem and allow you to set things just as you want them without the problem of one group being influenced by another or a perm profile.

Hope I explained that well... Permissions can get tricky if you do not keep it very simple

[Xarcell]

I really think it's a bug.

It goes haywire when you start trying to use board profiles other than the default.

I'm trying to narrow down the problem, and how to recreate it. I'm testing it on 2 sites. One that I'm working on with no members(just test accounts) and a default installation. I get the same results on both.

I can set regular members to no posting with default profile.

I can create another profile with approval only(hoping to override regular members no posting), and it let's then post, but without approval.

[Tyrsson]

Uhm, I dont use board profiles so I really couldn't comment on that. If I get time later this evening I will try to look into it though.

[Xarcell]

edited previous post.

If you find something later on(possible bug), let me know.

[Tyrsson]

There again, I do not use permission profiles. I set each group with the permissions I want them to have. Takes longer but I have not had any problems with it in the past.

[Xarcell]

There again, I do not use permission profiles. I set each group with the permissions I want them to have. Takes longer but I have not had any problems with it in the past.

Ok if you were me, about how exactly would you set that up? I tried doinmg it with just membergroups and that didn't work for me either.

[Tyrsson]

Check your PM's

[Xarcell]

Ok, I got it working.

Thanks to Tyrsson™ for taking the time and walk me through the process.

One simple thing I was overlooking, or not aware of, is that a "board profile" can edit permissions of multiple membergroups just for that board.

I thought a board profile only effected one membergroup, which was the membergroup that has access to the board. On the contrary, a user may be a member of multiple membergroups. So you need to edit permission of multiple membergroups(not always all) within that board profile. As Arantor stated, you can view profile > show permissions to see which ones are giving it.

I was making the mistake of editing membergroup permissions in general. You only need to edit the membergroups permissions within the board profile that you created. (to me it wasn't obvious you could do that).

Once Tyrsson™ got my head wrapped around it, it's so simple. I really love how SMF has designed it this way. I once asked for a mod(years ago) to do "polls only". Now with SMF 2.0 and how it's set up, I can do that, without the mod.

So there it is for anyone else who has the same problem and actually uses the search feature 

[Tyrsson]

Also, we should note here that ALL members are in atleast two groups.

Regular members + Custom Membergroup

Any permissions that are granted to the regular members will override the disallowed permissions within the board profile

Thanks to Tyrsson™ for taking the time and walk me through the process.

Your welcome