Usergroups or not?
Quote from TimInBC on February 15, 2021, 1:09 amYou’ve said”If you are setting up private or special forums that will have limited users, it is a required step to first create a user group” but also”Should you have a site where all users can participate (whether that is public for any registered user or private with login/membership controls), you actually do not need to use this feature at all.”
I will use categories to set up separate trees of forums, and various pages on my site will each have one forum.
Of course I’ll have admins and moderators. It’s possible that a user might follow 6 or 7 forums, and they can follow all if they have time.If we “lock the door” at all it will only be “must be logged in to create a topic.”
From other documentation I got the impression that user groups are most appropriate for managing special cases such as “rookie” or “probationary” or “warned once”. Or when people in one group should see only the pages designed for them (such as Prof. X’s class vs Prof. Y’s class).
Do I understand it correctly?
You’ve said”If you are setting up private or special forums that will have limited users, it is a required step to first create a user group” but also”Should you have a site where all users can participate (whether that is public for any registered user or private with login/membership controls), you actually do not need to use this feature at all.”
I will use categories to set up separate trees of forums, and various pages on my site will each have one forum.
Of course I’ll have admins and moderators. It’s possible that a user might follow 6 or 7 forums, and they can follow all if they have time.
If we “lock the door” at all it will only be “must be logged in to create a topic.”
From other documentation I got the impression that user groups are most appropriate for managing special cases such as “rookie” or “probationary” or “warned once”. Or when people in one group should see only the pages designed for them (such as Prof. X’s class vs Prof. Y’s class).
Do I understand it correctly?
Quote from Asgaros on February 17, 2021, 12:58 pmHello @timinbc
Usergroups can be set-up for grouping-purposes only or to restrict access to users of a specific group to specific categories only.
For example you have a “VIP-Members Only” category and only users of the usergroup “VIPs” should have access to it.
There are other possibilities to define who has access, for example:
- Logged-in users only if guests should be not able to see content of a specific category
- Moderators if there is an area for the users who are managing the forum
Hello @timinbc
Usergroups can be set-up for grouping-purposes only or to restrict access to users of a specific group to specific categories only.
For example you have a “VIP-Members Only” category and only users of the usergroup “VIPs” should have access to it.
There are other possibilities to define who has access, for example:
- Logged-in users only if guests should be not able to see content of a specific category
- Moderators if there is an area for the users who are managing the forum