UBB.Developers Forums UBB.classic V6 MultiHack Mods [6.0x] Private Forum Allow List [ Finished ]

NAME:
Private Forum Allow List 1.0

DESCRIPTION:
Gives moderators of private forums a list in the control panel setting for their private forum to which they can add login names of users, and grant them authorisation to that forum. (IF the user has write access- ie registration is approved + not banned).
Less work for admins on boards with lots of private forums who have frequently shifting populations.

GET IT FROM:
here

PLANNED FEATURES:
Ability for mods to REMOVE access and search for members by access to their forum in the next version.

nice! Installing now

cool I am going to install now!

JG

one thing with the instructions, some people might not know to goto the second instance of "forum_form" in cp_edit_forums.pl so you should add that

got this error after finally installing it

J*Jewell,

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#### Find
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local(@new_access_members, $new_member, $temp_user_number, $count, @user_profile, $chompee

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#### Replace with
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local(@new_access_members, $new_member, $temp_user_number, $count, @user_profile, $chompee);

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Does it work now?

Borg, any chance we could see a list of members, and have the ability to add them to the "private forums list" by checking them off. I think it is kind of mundane to have to write each user's name in there.

yea it works now, thanx acid!

Fixed the download. Thanks J.

Not sure what you mean with the suggestion tho- do you mean have a search feature to list members, then be able to give them access from that? Sounds an awful lot like the existing system...

Let my try to explain what I mean more clearly....

Currently (without your hack), in order to give a bunch of users access to a private forum, you must go into each individual member profile, and check the box that grants them permission to post in the private forum.

I would like the ability to see ALL the registered members on ONE list, and be able to give access to private forums via a checkbox to anyone I want. Once you click "submit" it updates EVERYONE'S profile at once.

In a nutshell, this is basically your hack does, but instead of writing each user name in manually, I would like to have a list of all the registered members that I can pick from.

For a board that has a lot of members and has various access groups, it is a real pain in the butt to type in manually each and every member that you want to include into an access group.

I hope that cleared things up a bit...

I got the same error J*Jewel got and now it works Great with that fix

JG

This seems great, but my biggest concern is that this allows the moderator for that forum to have access to all of that forum's settings. Including the option to turn off/on HTML and any other feature you may not want them to have control of.

Is there any way to restrict the access a bit more so that it looks similar to the hack for UBB5?

Currently running UBB6.04d.

[EDIT] Heh, nevermind, I have it solved. [/EDIT]

[ June 04, 2001 05:29 PM: Message edited by: Avin ]

i would lick to have the who list so i can just check the one i want and update them all ate once

nice hack
works fine on ubb 6.04e

Thanks.

works great but i got one problem! when a moderator logs into the cp and they drop the menu down they canot see "forum summary" soo thay can edit the list unless i give them the url manualy. any help?

Borg

Great hack makes life a lot easier

I have one tip for ppl who only want there mods to have access to private forums

in cp_common.pl{Templates}

Find:
if (userStatus == "Moderator") {
document.writeln(" - Forum Settings");

and change to

if (userStatus == "Moderator") {
document.writeln(" - Forum Settings1");
document.writeln(" - Forum Settings2");
document.writeln(" - Forum Settings3");

get_forum_details&number=??> = being the actual forum numbers.

PS I have noticed that this will only allow mods into the forums that they are mods in

Hope this tip will help

Thanks a lot, Borg! This hack make control easy for de admins. I hope you release soon other beta than can REMOVE access from private forums.

I have a question...

When I tryed to enter a list to allows access to the forum, I get the error "No member number found" but the login names are correctly typed...

Example:

user1
user2
user3
user4

I get an error, and I have to enter one by one.

Sorry for my English!!

Thanks!!

Sounds like a problem with the end-of-line characters.

There's actually a HUGE bug in the PFAL when giving access to a member who doesn't have any other provate forum access... I'll release v 1.5 with remove options, and the fix, and then 2.0 for UBB 6.1

Soooon...

Thanx for the hack
Installed it and trying it now. Good timing as I was just about to switch over to the hide forums hack and didnt feel like changing everyone's access

Hmmmmm...

When I put the hack on, it worked fine the first time i used it, but after that I got this error:

It's weird becaus eit worked before without a problem and without any chnages it doesnt work.