Setting up permissions

[funkdoctorspock]

Hey all,

I am new to xenforo and had my forum moved across from vbulletin to xenforo courtesy of Mikey (thanks again!).

Now, I having been reading up and trying to wrap my head around the permissions setup, which is very different to what I have been use to with vbulletin.

What would be the easiest way to set up permissions. I've read there is more than one way to set up for private sections (ie staff) and certain membership to have visibility of sections.

It looks like the transfer across hasn't fully set up the permissions I had in place and I'm guessing that is due to the vastly different permission settings.

Can anyone shed a lil light on this...

 

[Mikey]

For a staff forum, you'll want to be looking at "Node Permissions" under the "Users" tab in the AdminCP.

Then choose your staff forum from the list of forums presented to you.. and click it, which should take you to a screen which has the usergroups listed, you can then click each usergroup to allow or deny them access to certain functions of the forum, or just the whole forum..

As you can see, for my staff forum I checked "Private Node" then edited both my staff groups to check "View Node" to allow, but left everything else at "Inherit", which will inherit those permissions from their usergroup permissions.

The XenForo manual covers permissions quite extensively, in case you get lost or confused.. http://xenforo.com/help/permissions/

 

[funkdoctorspock]

Would it make sense to reset the permissions and start from scratch?

 

[Floris]

You can set it all to inherit and go from there .. ?

Just test it, make an account with default usergroup, go through the forums.
Check the usergroup permissions and test it again.

Happy? Upgrade it to the next usergroup, and add-on the permissions the additional usergroup should have.
Or take away (always revoke with no) the stuff it shouldn't. Leave as much inherited as it is.

Test it, until you're happy ..

And upgrade it to the next usergroup.

Just walk through the unregistered > registered > premium > mods > admins .. etc.

step by step.