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[Guide] Admin Cp Permissions Section
« on: April 22, 2008, 01:00:25 am »
Permissions Section
tip:  clicking on tooltips  [?] next to options will give you a popup box with an explanation of the option


Settings Page

Membergroups allowed to manage permission - Select the groups that you wish to have the power to change permissions of membergroups on your forums.

Enable the option to deny permissions - The deny permission is used to disallow a permission regardless of what group a Member is in. Here you can disable the use of the deny permission.

Enable permissions for Post count based groups - Post-count based groups are used to allow you to use different permissions depending on how many posts a Member has. Here you can disable using permissions for post-count based groups.

Enable advanced by-board permissions - With this unchecked, the Permissions by Board page of the Permissions section will be made real simple. Locally setting permissions will be restricted to just a few key commonly set permissions. You can make a Board: read only, disallow polls, or reply only. If you want to alter different permissions, you will want this checked. Having this checked will allow you to edit every permission for each local permission set Board for every Membergroup.


Permissions by Membergroup

This is the default page for the permission section. Here you can set all global permissions for each membergroup. These permissions are valid on all boards that have not been overriden by local permissions set in the Permissions by Board page.
The Permissions by Membergroup Section is divided into two sections:  General Permissions and Global Board Permissions.

Explanation of General Permissions

General

View Forum statistics - The collected statistics of an SMF Forum that can be found at index.php?action=stats (also in the Info. Center).
View the memberlist - A list of all registered members of an SMF forum. Can be found at index.php?action=mlist (also in the Info. Center).
View Who's Online - A summary of who's on an SMF forum. Can be found in the Info. Center and at index.php?action=who.
Search for posts and topics - Allows users to search the forums using keywords and phrases. Can be found at index.php?action=search and in the navigation bar.
Change other people's karma - Allows users to edit the karma of other users. This displays as +X/-X or +X beside the posts of members, where X is the member's karma totals.


SMF Gallery
 
View SMF Gallery -  Allows the user to view the Gallery
Add Picture - Allows the user to add a picture.
Edit own Picture - Allows the user to edit their own picture.
Delete own Picture - Allows the user to delete their own picture.
Rate Picture - Allows the user to rate pictures
Leave Comments - Allows the user to leave comments on a picture.
Edit own Comment - Allows the user to edit their own comments.
Report Pictures/Comments - Allows the user to report pictures and comments.
Auto Approve Comments - Comments do not need to wait for approval.
Auto Approve Pictures - Pictures do not need to wait for approval.
Personal Gallery - Allows the user to have a personal gallery
Manage Gallery - Allows the user to add/delete/edit all catagories. Delete Comments, Delete Pictures, Approve Pictures


Calendar

View the calendar - Decides whether or not a user can view the calendar of an SMF forum. Can be found at index.php?action=calendar and in the navigation bar.
Create events in the calendar - Decides whether or not a user can create new events in the calendar.
Edit events in the calendar - Decides whether or not a user can edit events in the calendar.


Forum Administration

Administrate Forum and database - Decides whether or not a user can change database connection properties, edit server settings, etc.
Manage boards and categories - Decides whether or not users can create, modify, and delete boards and categories.
Manage attachments and avatars - Decides whether or not users can mange and delete attachments on an SMF forum.
Manage smileys - Decides whether or not a user can change smiley sets, delete smileys, and change smiley options.
Edit news - Decides whether or not a user can edit the forum's news.


Member administration

Moderate Forum members - Decides whether or not a user can Register users manually, track IPs and online status, etc.
Manage and assign membergroups - Decides whether or not users can create, manage, and delete membergroups.
Manage permissions - Decides whether or not users can manage Member permissions.
Manage ban list - Decides whether or not a user can ban other members and discontinue bans.
Send a Forum email to members - Decides whether or not a user can send an email in bulk to all members or individual membergroups.


Personal Messaging

Read personal messages - Decides whether or not a user can view personal messages sent to him or her.
Send personal messages - Decides whether or not a user can send personal messages to other members.


Arcade

View Arcade - May access Arcade and use basic features like search and view highscores
Play on Arcade -  Allows member to play on arcade, in games which he/she has rights to
Administrate arcade -  Arcade Administarator can Install/Edit/Delete game, Delete scores and edit settings for arcade
Use Favorites feature -  Allows member to favorite and unfavorite games
Save scores - Allows users to save their scores.
Allow to comment/edit comment -Allows user to edit comments, own or any
Rate games - Allows users to rate games.


Profile Comments

View Comments - If the user is allowed to view user comments.
Allow add Comments - If the user is allowed to enter comments in others profile.
Edit own comment - Allows the user to edit their own comments.
Edit any comment - Allows the user to edit any comments.
Delete own comment. - Allows the user to delete their own comments.
Delete any comment - Allows the user to delete any comments.


SMF Links

View Links Page -If you want this membergroup to even SEE the links page
Add Links -If you want to give them permission to add a link(however the link will have to be approved first)
Edit Links -If you want them to be able to edit anyones links
Delete Links -If you want them to be able to delete any linl
Manage Categories -If you want them to be able to Add or Delete any categories
Approve Links -If you want them to be able to Approve or deny others links that haven't already been approved
Links Auto Approved -If you want them to be able to add any link without approval first
Rate Links -If you want them to be able to rate others links


Member Profiles

View Profile summary and stats - Decides whether or not a user can view Profile summaries and Member stats.
Edit account settings - Decides whether or not a user can edit their own account's settings as well as the account settings of all members.
Edit additional Profile settings -Decides whether or not users can edit individual Forum preferences such as their avatar, theme preferences, notifications and Personal Message settings. If this is not checked the user will be forced to use the default settings
Edit custom title - Decides whether or not users can edit their custom titles.
Delete account- Decides whether or not a Member can delete their account or other members' accounts.
Select an Avatar from the server - Decides whether or not to allow a user to select an Avatar from the avatars you uploaded on your forums.
Upload an Avatar to the server - Decides whether or not to allow a user to upload their personal Avatar to the server.
Choose a remotely stored Avatar - Decides if a user can use an Avatar from another server.


Explanation of Global Board Permissions

General

Moderate board - Decides whether or not people in this membergroup can moderate the boards they have access to.
 Permissions include replying to locked topics, changing the poll expire time and viewing poll results.

Topics

Post new topics - Decides whether or not people in this membergroup can Post new topics.
Merge any topic - Decides whether or not people in this membergroup can merge topics.
Split any topic - Decides whether or not people in this membergroup can split topics.
Send topics to friends - Decides whether or not people in this membergroup can send topics to their friends via email.
Make topics sticky - Decides whether or not people in this membergroup can make topics sticky.
Move topic - Decides whether or not people in this membergroup can move their topics, all topics, or no topics at all.
Lock topics - Decides whether or not people in this membergroup can lock their topics, all topics, or no topics at all.
Remove topics - Decides whether or not people in this membergroup can remove their topics, all topics, or no topics at all.
Post replies to topics - Decides whether or not people in this membergroup can Post replies to their topics, all topics, or no topics at all.
Modify replies to own topics - Decides whether or not people in this membergroup can modify replies to their own topics.
Delete replies to own topics - Decides whether or not people in this membergroup can delete replies to their own topics.
Announce topic - Decides whether or not people in this membergroup can announce (send topic by email or private message) their topics.

Posts

Delete posts - Decides whether or not people in this membergroup can delete their posts, all posts, or no posts at all.
This does not allow a user to delete the first post of a topic.
Modify posts - Decides whether or not people in this membergroup can modify their posts, all posts, or no posts at all.
Report posts to the moderators - Decides whether or not people in this membergroup will be able to report posts to moderators that have selected to receive forum notifications.

Polls

View polls - Decides whether or not people in this membergroup will be able to view polls.
Vote in polls - Decides whether or not people in this membergroup will be able to vote in polls they can see.
Post Polls - Decides whether or not people in this membergroup will be able to make their own polls.
Add poll to topics - Decides whether or not people in this membergroup are allowed to add polls to existing topics. You can choose whether they must have posted the topic, or if they can add it to any Topic they can see.
Edit polls - Decides whether or not people in this membergroup can edit their polls, any polls, or no polls at all. This permission allows a user to edit the polls options, reset the poll, edit the maximum number of votes, and edit the expiration time of the poll. In order to edit the maximum number of votes and the expiration time a user needs to have the 'Moderate board' permission.
Lock polls - Decides whether or not people in this membergroup can lock their polls, any polls, or no polls at all.
Remove polls - Decides whether or not people in this membergroup can remove their polls, any polls, or no polls at all.

Notifications

Request notification on replies - Decides whether or not people in this membergroup will be able to request notification on replies to topics they select.
Request notification on new topics - Decides whether or not people in this membergroup will be able to request notification when new topics get posted in a board.

Attachments

View Attachments - Decides whether or not people in this membergroup can view attachments.
Post Attachments - Decides whether or not people in this membergroup can Post attachments.


Permissions by Board Page

The Permissions by Board page of the Permissions section allows you to set-up local permissions for boards, meaning the board's permissions will differ from the globally set Membergroup permissions. This page can behave in two different ways.


There is the simple way, where you have the setting "Enable advanced by-board permissions" in the Settings page of the Permissions section unchecked.

With the setting unchecked you will see a list of all your boards with links next to them,

Normal - Clicking this will make the board inherit the permissions set by membergroups rather then by board.
No Polls - As the name suggests, this will disable the posting of polls to everyone except the Administrators
Reply Only - Clicking this will disable all Members from starting new topics and be restricted to posting replies to topics. Although the Administrators can still start topics.
Read Only - Clicking this will disable Members from posting replies to topics and starting new topics. Again, Administrators are immune to this and can still post.

If you have the setting "Enable advanced by-board permissions" checked, you will instead see just two links next to each board.
Global - When clicked on, sets the board's permission set to use the globally set permissions by membergroups.
Local - When clicked on, changes the board's permission set to use locally set board permissions ignoring the global Membergroup permissions. When "Local" is clicked on, the board name becomes a link. Clicking on the link will lead you to a page where you can edit each Membergroups permissions exclusively for that board.

As you can see, you can control the local permissions of a board a lot more using this method of managing permissions, but the simpler method can be good if you just want to restrict basic permissions from particular boards.

More Guides here:  Guides & Tutorials Index
« Last Edit: April 30, 2008, 12:01:05 am by simply sibyl »

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Re: [Guide] Admin Cp Permissions Section
« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2009, 09:00:26 pm »
thnx again lol

 

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