V4.5 and V5 - Limit Update Access to One Member

[Colin Molloy]

Hi All,

I've been trying to find a way, initially in V4.5 (which my forum is currently still on) and V5 (can separately post this upas a feature request if necessary) to limit POSTING RESTRICTIONS of a particular board to one member. I'm seeking sponsorship and want to be able to create a BOARD for a sponsor under the Support Our Sponsors CATEGORY.

1) I have created a group - called Official Site Sponsor - Demo 

2) I have created a member called 'Your Business' to set up a demo profile.

3) I have posted a thread under that member name.

4) I can limit access under modify user group - but that only allows access or not.

5) I can make the sponsor a staff member - but then each sponsor has access to each others board.


Is there a way of doing this please?

[Tumbleweed]

Well, I was thinking how you could do this and again, this is complicated so I hope I covered everything. I assume you want everyone who has their own board to have the group name, "Official Site Sponsor". What you could do is set up a group for each sponsor naming the groups something really arbitrary and would never be used in normal language. Set the group so they aren't staff and then set the limited powers to no and then on the next page tick off all the things that group can do. Probably just,
Delete Posts:
Modify Posts:
Lock Threads:
Reply to Locked Threads:

So once the board is created it would be good to lock the thread created within it, so no one else but that group, the one sponsor) and you could reply or modify.

Do that for each sponsor and this is important, you'll need ubbc bold tags around the group name:

Example:

[b]Spnumber1[/b]



O.K. So now you have a bunch of arbitrary group names. To change them all back to "Official Site Sponsor" you'd need this code: (The first one) Since this code only targets titles that are bold, that is why you put the ubbc bold tags around the group.

interoceandesigns.com/index.cgi?board=proboardcodedatabase&action=display&thread=343


So say you have a group named as above, Spnumber1 and Spnumber2. The part of the above code you'd edit would look like this:

var n=[
["Spnumber1","Official Site Sponsor"],
["Spnumber2","Official Site Sponsor"]
];

I hope I thought everything out. Little sleepy right now.


Oh, almost forgot, you'd then have to go to that board and put the username of that person as the moderator.

[Colin Molloy]

Tumbleweed (I'm one of those rare people that walk on my head  ) - that is MAGNIFICENT   - I really appreciate your input - will go through that and see how I go   - thank you HEAPS!!

[Tumbleweed]

You're welcome and just do a couple groups first to make sure my idea works.

[Colin Molloy]

Mar 19, 2013 23:19:26 GMT -8 Tumbleweed said:

You're welcome and just do a couple groups first to make sure my idea works.

Will do 

[Colin Molloy]

Hi p????lq?n? 

OK! 

1) I've created a TEST FORUM to try this out and a few other things I have in mind. 

2) I've also tried to simplify it using the group name for each sponsor (currently only one at the moment - OFFICIAL SITE SPONSOR (1)  - and not aiming for a "generic" (code morphed) group name (see 4 and 5)

3) Then registering a sponsor (member) and updating the member profile Display Name to something more meaningful (given that the registration username is limited to 18 characters and precludes spaces - in this case member stitches display name was edited to Stitches From The Heart

4) I then updated the Member Group: field and selected group OFFICIAL SITE SPONSOR (1) - this shows up in the member's (sponsor's) mini profile - or would with a post.

5) Using OFFICIAL SITE SPONSOR (<n>) - avoids, I believe, the need for the external code (you kindly supplied the link to) to "morph" bold bb tagged arbitrary groups into a generic OFFICIAL SITE SPONSOR group descriptor.

So far so good..... 

BUT!! - Here is the issue:

1) Your theory was to NOT make the sponsor member so they are NOT staff (second line of your post) and then limit their powers as you describe AND make them a Mod - yup no worries.

2) The issue is with board posting restrictions - unfortunately, the creation of OFFICIAL SITE SPONSOR (1) doesn't populate (even with a forum exit and re-entrance) into a selectable entry in the four (4) Posting Restrictions fields within the Admin Modify Board area.

Unless you can impress me even more (and that would be hard because I'm VERY impressed ) , perhaps the only way to do it is to make them Staff - this would ensure members (and guests) can't create threads within the sponsor's board, but has two disadvantages:

1) The staff visible moderator threads / "last updated" (in the Forum Stats area) would be visible to sponsors - granted they wouldn't have access due to password protection.

2) Each sponsor member would have access to the other's board (although, granted, the risk of one sponsor inappropriately using that access is remote and VERY auditable.  

Over to you p????lq?n? - I await your response with great anticipation and pleasure. 

[Tumbleweed]

You totally lost me on this:

2) The issue is with board posting restrictions - unfortunately, the creation of OFFICIAL SITE SPONSOR (1) doesn't populate (even with a forum exit and re-entrance) into a selectable entry in the four (4) Posting Restrictions fields within the Admin Modify Board area.


Can you try rephrasing that in another way because I just can't get my brain to wrap around what you are saying, although eloquently said. Thanks and I also appreciate the compliment although now you may be retracting that statement. lol

[Colin Molloy]

Mar 25, 2013 22:10:52 GMT -8 Tumbleweed said:

You totally lost me on this:

2) The issue is with board posting restrictions - unfortunately, the creation of OFFICIAL SITE SPONSOR (1) doesn't populate (even with a forum exit and re-entrance) into a selectable entry in the four (4) Posting Restrictions fields within the Admin Modify Board area.


Can you try rephrasing that in another way because I just can't get my brain to wrap around what you are saying, although eloquently said. Thanks and I also appreciate the compliment although now you may be retracting that statement. lol

 - No you high status remain untarnished LOL

Crikey! (as we say in Oz - my brain hurts  )

OK, I'll try - ... OK, so I've created the sponsor board - under which the sponsor can create threads....

But if I go into the modify (of that sponsor) board - in the Posting Restrictions at the bottom - I can only restrict thread posting between either Registered Members, Everyone, or Only Staff - since the sponsor is not staff - I would have to make it Registered Members which means they could add a thread to the sponsors board. 

Hope that's clearer?

IDEA - Is there code that would add the group names/s eg OFFICIAL SITE SPONSOR to the selectable options as far as restricting thread posting in the Board posting restrictions area of the Modify Board area?

UPDATE OK  p????lq?n? - I've sort of cracked it  :

1) The Moderator's Discussion category is set as visible to only Admin and GM - so that's not an issue, plus there is a second tier "defence" of a password.

2) I've set the sponsor to Staff - this allows me to set thread posting for each respective sponsor board to staff - ok - so one sponsor will have access to another's board - but I can't see a sponsor wanting to do anything with that.

3) I've logged out as Admin in my test board and logged in as the sponsor and confirmed that neither the Moderator's Discussion Category, Boards, threads or last updated in the Forum Stats area is visible.

 

[Tumbleweed]

Yep, my brain is pretty tired tonight but your revised explanation did the trick and I see what you are saying about the board options being for everyone,members, staff. I knew there was probably something I was overlooking. So even if the sponsor had a locked thread, that wouldn't prevent others from starting a new thread soooo...it looks like the way you have it is the best we can do, however, if you don't want them to show as staff in the info center, you can add this to your main footer and edit it as you add sponsors:

support.proboards.com/thread/290833

[Colin Molloy]

Oh goody MORE CODE 

Thank you dear lady, I shall have a crack at THAT when my synaptic connections have regenerated tomorrow LOL 

[Tumbleweed]

 

[Colin Molloy]

Hi  p????lq?n?

OK, I've set up a couple of sponsors on my test board swaotest.freeforums.net/index.cgi? and they work fine.


Tried that "Staff removal code" - didn't work - tried just one User, Two Users, Username and Member Name - pitty would have been handy 
 

[Tumbleweed]

Try this one:
studiozero.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=codes&action=display&thread=7523

I think I mentioned how some codes got messed up when converted to V5 here on ProBoards.

[Colin Molloy]

Thank you  p????lq?n?

I'll give that a try - still on 4.5 at the moment. 

[Colin Molloy]

Yup  -    p????lq?n?    - That one did the trick - THANK YOU!!