Cant access "restrict new topics and sub forums"

[ADMINY]

cant access this under the options menu, just get a blank page, some of my settings have changed since the site maintenance and its messing my forum up, people are now allowed to post in my parent forum and i cant change the settings.

[Hugo <Nabble>]

Please click on "Options > Users > Who can view & post?" for your parent forum and select "Everyone can participate, but restricted topics". You can also read the description of the other options and see if any of them is better than this one.

Regards,
Hugo Teixeira
Nabble.com

[ADMINY]

I want to be able to stop people posting in my parent forum, even registered or members, because it acts as a "all categories". i used to be able to do this, now i cannot.

[Hugo <Nabble>]

You can do this with the option I mentioned in the previous post. After setting it, go to "Options > Users > Who are members?" and make sure you are the only member in the list. Since you have set that only members can create new topics, then users won't be able to create new topics in the parent forum, but may be able to create them in sub-forums.

Regards,
Hugo Teixeira
Nabble.com

[PapugLinux Admin]

Hi,

It seems that I have the same problem. The parent forum only shows 3 entries in the 'option' menu :
-Subscribe via email
-Post by email
-Structure
         -Create new subforum

I can't figure how to set access right on the root forum.

Regards,
-sb

[tugascz]

Hi, i think the whole problem is in the inheritance, there should be an option in the subforuns or in general saying "ignore inheritance". Because if the main forum has the restriction to only allow admins to create topics, that restricition will be inherited by the sub-foruns so registered users or members cannot post new topics in sub-foruns.

Is there a solution for restricting the creation of new topics and replies in main forum for all except admins but at the same time allow any user to post and create topics in the subforuns?

Regards,
R.

[Hugo <Nabble>]

You had this problem because the forum creator was an anonymous user, not you. I set you as the owner and now you should see all options. Please try again and let me know if you still have problems.

[Hugo <Nabble>]

The solution you want is already available. In the "Who can view & post?" configuration page, the "Who can
create topics?" column is not inherited. So you can select, for example, "Everyone can participate, but restricted topics" and add you as the only member. All users will be able to post, but only you would be able to create new topics in the current forums. Users will still be able to create new topics in sub-forums. We will improve that page or the help article to explanation this detail.

Regards,
Hugo Teixeira
Nabble.com

[tugascz]

Thanks for the clarification Hugo ;)

But is there a way to have in the main forum: Everyone (view),Admins(topics), Registered(reply)  to avoid having members creating topics but allowing at the same time registered users to reply in subforuns? Because from what you suggest, to have Everyone (view),Members(topics), Registered(reply) if i understood it correctly to remove all members from main forum it would make the admins to add for each individual sub-forum all the members all over again and again.

In future changes it would be great to have more flexible and explicit configurations. A proposal i make is to have drop-down boxes instead of the radio buttons with so many choices (but that are missing some like Admin for all things - who can view, topics, replies). It takes less space in the screen too and admin doesnt have to look for all the combinations.

Also, in sub-foruns i still think it would be good to have a option "ignore inheritance" and in main forum a button "apply inheritance to all subforuns" which would set to false the option "ignore inheritance" for all sub-foruns.

regards,
R.

[PapugLinux Admin]

Hi Hugo,

This is working fine, many thanks for your quick support.

I've also successfully tested the 'inheritance rules' as explained in this topic and it works as I expect, Parent forum has 'Registered users can participate, but restricted topics' option and sub forums have 'Registered users can participate' option.

Kind regards,
-sb

[TheMachinimanator]

How do I make an admins only section?

[Hugo <Nabble>]

You can create a sub-forum, open it and click on "Options > Users > Who can view & post?". Then you should select an option where only members can visit and post. Then you click on "Options > Users > Who are members?" and add the "admins". You don't really have to check the "is Admin?" checkbox for them. The basic concept here is that the sub-forum can only be accessed by a small group of members (that you can call admins or any other name).

[TheMachinimanator]

I kinda tried that. the maximum is members can see and participate while admins can create subjects. I want it that admins can view, create, and participate. Or will this come later. Also, how do i upgrade a registers to a member? I can upgrade a registered to a admin and downgrade an admin to registered.

[Hugo <Nabble>]

The list of members can be overriden in each sub-forum. So you can have a forum with 100 members at the top and a sub-forum with 5 members under it. So you can go to your sub-forum and select that only members can view, create topics and post. After that you go to "Who are members?" and define who really can do that for that sub-forum. Members from the parent forum that are not included in the new list won't be able to do anything.

[TheMachinimanator]

hmmm....thats still kind of confusing. Is there a way at all where I can make the admins only sections viewable, createable, and participle by admins only? please email me Hugo, I have some questions.

[Hugo <Nabble>]

Please try this:
http://n2.nabble.com/Closing-Thread-tp2155200p3379454.html