Maintenance Mode and accessibility

[smhardesty]

I'm really new to this whole forum thing so please bear with me. I have been an Admin on a board for a while now and have a lot of the basic housekeeping and maintenance tasks figured out. I've decided I might want to create a board of my own. I think I have some really good ideas and like pretty much everyone on earth, I can do it better.

So my only question at this point is, if in Maintenance Mode, is the board totally inaccessible to everyone? I would want to keep the board completely invisible until I'm ready to launch it. I know it will take me several days to get all the specifics on the board exactly the way I want them and I wouldn't want anyone seeing the board before the launch date.

So, is it completely invisible in Maintenance Mode?

[Brian]

Hi, smhardesty.

Anyone who is regarded as staff on your forum will still be able to access the forum while it's in maintenance mode. In Members > Member Groups if a user is part of any group listed here that has the Staff dropdown set to Yes they are listed as staff on your forum and can still successfully log in while maintenance mode is enabled.

Everyone else who attempts to access the forum will be met with a blue maintenance mode screen regardless of which page on the forum they visit and will be unable to access the forum's contents even if they attempt to log in.

[smhardesty]

Outstanding! Thanks, Brian. There will only be 3 people with any type of "staff" or "admin" capabilities, at least to begin with, so that won't be a problem. Exactly what I needed to know and wanted to see. Now it's time to start outlining the board and start fine tuning what I want before I actually start in building the board for real.

Have a great day, Brian!