group permission questions

[mpglivecarlo]

i thought that it would require a profile for every specific board, but i was wrong since the group permissions to make someone to moderate a forum are global forum permissions that will apply to every forum using the default profile.

then to limit them to only the forums, even the general forum category i would have to create a profile to forbid the other forum admins to moderate inside that forum.

very loooooong way for what i wanted.

i thought that there would be a similar way like in phpBB3.

is there a mod to make "custom" moderator groups in SMF? will go look in the customization section; but seems i will have to forget about what i wanted to do and only set members to the moderator group of the board, since only the primary group will show in the "rank" underneath the username.

thx for help.

[Illori]

what do you mean by custom moderator groups? creating a group and giving them the permissions you want?

[Spoogs]

I'm staring to get confused here, I already explained how to do this using a moderator group.

[mpglivecarlo]

what do you mean by custom moderator groups? creating a group and giving them the permissions you want?

To be able to edit or customize the moderator title and badge for every moderator board. When i set in a board a person as moderator every time he posts in the forum it just says "moderator" under user name and it has a X number of images for his "badge" like in this image:



What I would like is a user that has moderator permissions for specific board (only 1 board and its sub-boards) and that anytime he posts his profile card has a custom title and badge.

I dont know if there is such a mod to modify or customize independent forum moderators like that, or if i explained myself wrong.

I'm staring to get confused here, I already explained how to do this using a moderator group.

I created a moderator group, and ended with the global moderator group, the visible boards limit did not work, cause every board he could see that used the default permissions he could moderate; meaning every time i create a new board i would have to create it with another permission profile so the admins cant moderate it.

your solution is based on a group + forum profile level.

if i understood you wrong can you please give me a step by step for what you suggest.

[Illori]

you could make a group to "show" they are moderators like this forum has for language mods, but when in that board where they are a moderator it will show the same as above. otherwise i think you need a mod to do what you want.

[mpglivecarlo]

you could make a group to "show" they are moderators like this forum has for language mods, but when in that board where they are a moderator it will show the same as above. otherwise i think you need a mod to do what you want.

Exactly, that is my "problem" i want them to always have the moderator permissions for the specific board, and to keep throughout the forum their custom title for example "COD4 Admin" and their badge. But in the forums they are moderator it just shows as the image i posted.

[Spoogs]

Create a group named COD4 Admin and give that group moderator permissions on the necessary board ... put the member in this group as their primary group. Fix the permission profiles for for this group for any other permission profile you are using on other boards.

[Illori]

that only works if there is only one "admin" group, which i am guessing there will be more then one.

[mpglivecarlo]

Create a group named COD4 Admin and give that group moderator permissions on the necessary board ... put the member in this group as their primary group. Fix the permission profiles for for this group for any other permission profile you are using on other boards.

Just to be sure...how do i assign moderator permissions to the group? by selecting in permissions "by type" -> Moderator ?

Dont understand the fix permission profile part.

that only works if there is only one "admin" group, which i am guessing there will be more then one.

Yes, admin group for every specific board that is made for every game/tournament.

[Illori]

then we are back to what i said on the prior page about having a profile for each board, no other way around it.

[mpglivecarlo]

then we are back to what i said on the prior page about having a profile for each board, no other way around it.

i had hoped for another option but seems that way, maybe in the future those permissions could be granted to a group without having the problem of global moderation.

[Acans]

The only way to do this is to create all the groups, but base there permissions on regular members.

Than create board profiles and assign the permissions to each board profile for the membergroup that requires them. Than on the boards you want that membergroup to have the rights, change the board permission to the newly created one.

The SMF permission system can be a bit hard for those new to it. However, when you play around with it gets easier.