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Sterling Valentine
Starting Member
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 Posted - 20 June 2003 : 16:03:14
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Couldn't find this anywhere else, so sorry if it's redundant.
Is there a way to make topics private? How is member access [NOT admin] controlled to different topics, forums, etc., or does every member just have access to evey discussion?
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Nikkol
Forum Moderator
USA
6907 Posts |
Posted - 20 June 2003 : 16:20:50
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| turn on private forums in admin options. after you do that you will see an auth type dropdown in the forum properties which controls who can get in. |
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ruirib
Snitz Forums Admin
Portugal
26364 Posts |
Posted - 20 June 2003 : 16:22:48
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| You can set a forum Auth Type (edit the forum properties) to several values, including "Allowed Member List" Or "Allowed Member List (Hidden)". Choosing one of the two values, you can also define the list of members who get to access the forum, or even that get to see that the forums exists (if you choose the hidden option). Have a look at it and you'll see it will fit your needs. |
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Sterling Valentine
Starting Member
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Posted - 20 June 2003 : 16:30:31
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Thanks - If we give a customer a link to a particular form topic for just his account, would he still be able to drill up to see the list of other customer's topics and/or forums, or is there a way to put a "ceiling" on it so that he'll never know what other forums and topics are there?
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Nikkol
Forum Moderator
USA
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Sterling Valentine
Starting Member
4 Posts |
Posted - 20 June 2003 : 16:51:32
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I appreciate your help with this - let me see if I understand correctly. If every CATEGORY/FORUM is made private, and only one person [other than the admin] is made a member, then any member visiting his own CATEGORY/FORUM would only be able to see TOPICS in his CATEGORY/FORUM? That would mean 100 members who each need their own private place to talk with the admin [a customer account discussion, for example] would need 100 private CATEGORY/FORUMS? Is this right? Is this the only way to do it, or can TOPICS be treated the same way? Is there a limit to the number of CATEGORY/FORUMS that can be created?
The only issue I caan see that might be a problem for this way of setting it up would be that a use might start several different topic threads this way, but I would want them to only be able to have ONE TOPIC, to keep it simple and linear. Can they be blocked from starting new topics, so they would be forced to keep their conversation in the samne one thread?
The important thing for us is that a user feels like it's HIS discussion area for his account, and he can't see or even know that there are others "next to" or "above" him, and he's limited to one topic so that everything we talk about regarding his account is on one page, one thing on top of another, over time. |
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Roland
Advanced Member
Netherlands
9335 Posts |
Posted - 20 June 2003 : 17:02:30
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individual topics can't be made private.
I'm just writing down my thoughts, but if you turn on the "require login" option (I forgot the correct term, sorry about that), and you deny the members access to default.asp (admin and moderators should have access to default.asp), you could add a field in the database for the members where each member gets a forum_id. Then after they've logged into the forums using login.asp, they automatically get sent to "their own" forum. You'd then need to create a check in forum.asp to make sure the member belongs in the forum they're requesting. That way if they would get snoopy and change the forum_id to something other than their own, you could redirect them back to their own forum. With a little more work you could change the posting option so they can't create new topics but still reply to them.
If you do all this correctly, the members would each have their own forum and the admins and moderators would still have the same features as they have in a basic forum.
This sounds like quite some work that would probably require a little testing and bug squashing after the changes have been made, but it's defenately possible. But then again, there's hardly anything impossible with Snitz as long as you take some time to make the necessary changes  |
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Sterling Valentine
Starting Member
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Posted - 20 June 2003 : 17:10:54
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| Fritz - is this something you could do? Does anyone know anyone that I could hire to add these modifications? |
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Roland
Advanced Member
Netherlands
9335 Posts |
Posted - 20 June 2003 : 17:32:07
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The name's Roland, but Fritz'll do 
Unfortunately I don't have time to help you out with this. If nobody offers to help you out in this topic, you could post a MOD request in the MOD W/O Code forums (a short description of what you want, and a link to this topic would suffice) to see if anyone who only checks that forum can help you. Most people help with making changes to forums for free, but since this would be quite some work, I can imagine some people wouldn't want to do it for free.
One small tip though: be careful who you choose to do the work for you. I'm not saying that new members aren't as trustworthy as "old" members, but money can make people do crazy things |
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ruirib
Snitz Forums Admin
Portugal
26364 Posts |
Posted - 20 June 2003 : 18:19:36
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| Sterling Valentine, to have users and admins talk together and privately, probably you could have a look at the private messages mod and see if it fits your need. My view is that if you need a "read by a single user topic", then a forum app may not be the best for that. Check the PM mod, it may be what you need. |
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Exile
Starting Member
USA
36 Posts |
Posted - 22 June 2003 : 08:17:37
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Hello,
I was searching the site for something similar. What I'd like to be able to do is have some way of preventing access to a particular forum on my board, while allowing accees to all the others.
(without making the forum private)... this would have to be some sort of mod to allow selective banning based on member name, e-mail address, or some other criteria (or combination thereof). Does anyone have such a wonderful MOD to share? One of my moderators has requested that I Ban a user from his forum, and, I don't mind doing that, but, I'd rather not ban the user from the rest of the board. Is this type mod possible? Can it be done? I think this would be a real addition to the flexibility of Snitz! Any help will be appreicated. Please e-mail me. Thanks!
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Roland
Advanced Member
Netherlands
9335 Posts |
Posted - 22 June 2003 : 09:34:16
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That functionality isn't available AFAIK, but you could try doing a search in the MOD W/ Code forum or at snitzbitz.com. Someone might've made a MOD for that, but I doubt it.
Also, we don't email answers to questions posted on the forums since the answer might help someone other than the poster of the question. |
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Exile
Starting Member
USA
36 Posts |
Posted - 22 June 2003 : 09:50:23
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Originally posted by FrutZle
That functionality isn't available AFAIK, but you could try doing a search in the MOD W/ Code forum or at snitzbitz.com. Someone might've made a MOD for that, but I doubt it.
Also, we don't email answers to questions posted on the forums since the answer might help someone other than the poster of the question.
Thank you for your response and I have already posted at SnitzBitz. I did as you suggested and posted in the MOD W/code forum. Maybe someone will have the answer. I do appreciate it and if anyone else replies here, that will be fine as well.. No need to e-mail me. I'll check back. |
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Exile
Starting Member
USA
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Reinsnitz
Snitz Forums Admin
USA
3545 Posts |
Posted - 30 June 2003 : 11:09:13
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Why not just make a forum password protrected... put your post in a forum for that customer... and in the email to them send them the password? Making a new forum is easy... you could have a Category in your forums that contain only customer forums... maby having a number for the forum names so that customer confidentiality is not breached... only down side I can see here is that you would have to keep a list or database that contains a customer number/customer name relationaship.
Should work for your needs though. This way all customer forums are not browsable by any other customers (without the appropriate password (which can be quite complex). |
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sacred
Junior Member
USA
153 Posts |
Posted - 30 June 2003 : 14:45:08
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Scanning through quickly this topic, I went through the same thing.
You have different options. First make the ability to have private forums turned on. One option when you create a forum you can create it Allowed members only Hidden. Then you go down and select the members accessed to that forum and add them to the list. What this will do is the following, Hide the forum from other users, Only Users in the allowed column can participate in the forum.
Here is a list of what the different security does for each selection when creating a forum
All Visitors
*Anyone can see the forum and the topics posted
Members Only
*Anyone can see the Forum and description but you have to be a member to see the topics.
Members Only Hidden
*No One can see the forum and you have to be a member to see the forum description and topic.
Password Protected
*Anyone can see the forum and its description. But you can't see the topic unless you have the special password. However, YOUR DO NOT HAVE to be a registered user to see the topics.
Members Only or Password protected
*Everyone can see the forum and its description but Only members and those who have the forum password can access the topics
Allowed Members List Or Password Only
*Everyone can see the forum and its description but Only Alloowed members that were approved or people who have the forum password can access the topics.
Allowed Members List
*Everyone can see the forum and its description but Only Allowed members that were approved through the adding to the allowed forum list of users can see the topics and are allowed to participate.
Allowed Members List hidden
*No one can see the forum,its description, and topics from the outside unless they are on the Allowed members that were approved through the adding to the allowed forum list of users can see the topics.
I hope this helps you,
Many blessings!
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