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| chriSeller |
Posted - 30 May 2006 : 12:50:18
Hello,
I've searched private topics, hidden forums, etc.
I have many clients in my service business. Can you good people share with me the best way to have:
1. A main forum for general info for all clients, and
2. A private forum for each client?
Ideally the private forums would all share a core set of topics but have the ability for me to create additional topics in each.
Thank you in advance,
Chris
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| chriSeller |
Posted - 31 May 2006 : 08:24:30
Thank you my friends--very cool,
1. By "many clients" I'd typically add fewer than 10 new users/members in a very busy month.
2. No public registrations. I'll register each user (but If I need to create a new forum (table: forum_id1, forum_id2, ...) for each new user it might help if I create a link or on/off option to generate a new forum (table?) each time I register a new user. Any thoughts?
3. I'll not copy topics--just need an identical core set of empty topics for each user. Perhaps with each new table created I could code it to build the core set?
4. Can my one forum front end take a user to their specific forum based on login?
... 4.1. Can I also have the shared general forum accessible (below or interwoven) into all forums?
5. I do not have any users/members yet--until I iron this out...
... 5.1. If I register each user/member can I still have the forum send an activiation email?
... 5.2. Shaggy, forgive me but, "<em>add the member to the allowed members list</em>", is this required for each forum, or for the general forum only (so that new users all have access)?
... 5.3. Perhaps I'll need another admin switch at new registrations where I allow access to the general forum?
Tx again, you guys are great.
ChriSeller
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| Shaggy |
Posted - 31 May 2006 : 04:38:18
What I'd recommend is adding some functions to the registration process that would create a new forum when the member registers/activates their account with the same name as that member & its authorisation set to allowed members & hidden and then add the member to the allowed members list. Obviously, you'd still need to manually create a forum for each existing member but, if you have a large number of members and don't fancy that daunting task, you could write a custom script to loop through all existing members and create their forums. Like Rui', though, I would receommend against trying to show individual posts in multiple forums as you'll only give yourself a headache. Besides, you'll have a "general" forum for any topics that need to be seen by all your clients.
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| ruirib |
Posted - 30 May 2006 : 23:07:24
Roger,
Regardless of that, you'd still need custom code to do it. Doesn't seem like a thing to do manually.< |
| Roger Fredriksson |
Posted - 30 May 2006 : 18:34:15
Chris, I would like that very much too.
Ruirib et.al. couldn't it be done by just creating forums with names equal username and do a test in forum.asp to check whether its an admin or the authorized member trying to read or post? (It's late in Sweden so I am perhaps even more out in the blue then i use to be ;) )< |
| ruirib |
Posted - 30 May 2006 : 18:05:11
No easy automatic way to do that. Probably some custom code would be needed. I wouldn't recommend the copy of topics among forums.< |
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