I'm setting up a new forum and finding the relationship between permissions, roles, groups etc, and how best to set them up... a bit confusing. I, for example, was using groups to group different classes of users and control what areas they could access, but then found out that each user has a "group" area on their control panel that lets them ask to be signed up to groups, something that even the admin can't so apparently? Must be done by a "group leader"? Well, this function was apparently intended for a different purpose that what I was using it for.
So, I'm wondering if there is some documentation someplace that spells out "best practices"... how each option should be used, and when to avoid them. The documentation I have explains in some detail how everything works, but not how best to set up all the options.
Does anything like this exist?
For example, my forum is for an organization that will have leaders, members, and maybe specific projects. Guests will have either no access or only access to an introduction but may be given partial read-only access in the future, registered users have normal access to public forums as well as any project groups they belong to, or may have read only access to some projects, and then the leadership, BOD and such, have private areas to discuss business. How should this be set up to make maintaining it easy?
So, I'm wondering if there is some documentation someplace that spells out "best practices"... how each option should be used, and when to avoid them. The documentation I have explains in some detail how everything works, but not how best to set up all the options.
Does anything like this exist?
For example, my forum is for an organization that will have leaders, members, and maybe specific projects. Guests will have either no access or only access to an introduction but may be given partial read-only access in the future, registered users have normal access to public forums as well as any project groups they belong to, or may have read only access to some projects, and then the leadership, BOD and such, have private areas to discuss business. How should this be set up to make maintaining it easy?
Statistics: Posted by jeepwhisperer — Tue May 27, 2025 11:37 pm