Ok... made my forums work how you explained... and updated my previouse post to reflect your intent in this MOD... your thought process makes very good sence :)
Any projection on when this will leave Beta and be released as V1.0 ?
I want to integrate it throughout my HuwRs portal, including all the resource areas not just the forums, but I want to make sure it's in a pretty stable state (not a lot of changes planned -- not talking just bug fixes) before I do so...
you know, I was gonna do it this weekend, but ... Now, it looks like I won't be able to work on it for another few weeks. The changes that I was going to make were minor corrections, mostly to the stand-alone admin_usergroups page, so I don't think you'll have problems making corrections to the final release. you can use the beta and read the posts in this thread for any fixes. then, when I release the final version, I'll include instructions for updating the beta.
Ok... little more info on the error on line 121 of the usergroups admin page in MySQL db...
quote:Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80040e21'
Multiple-step OLE DB operation generated errors. Check each OLE DB status value, if available. No work was done.
/forum/admin_usergroups.asp, line 121
The name being entered is limited to a shot name (same with the description)... so what I have been having to do is this: make a new group with the name of "test" and the description of "test" and then go in and edit it afterwards.
When creating a new group, you still get an error:
quote: Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80040e21'
ODBC driver does not support the requested properties.
/forum/admin_usergroups.asp, line 84
When creating any new groups. Though the group is still created and we just have to go up and click on the "UserGroups Manager" link at the top of the page.
SOOOOO... looks like 2 bugs... one that either prevents or hinders the first record creation... and then subsequent creation being limited to very short names.
I have about 16 different forums, and want people in some groups to see some forums, and members in others to not, and I didn't understand how the usergroups worked... so I had set each group to allow and disallow on all 16 forums. And a mix of my 180 members are in different multiple forums with access. So by doing the full allow/dissalow on each forum for each group, no one could get into anything, caus the forum takes the strictest permission and applies it to the member in question.
So I just restructured all my groups and all my permissions to have most of my forums as Allowed Members (Hidden), and set each group to just "allow" the members in the forums I wanted each group to have access too, this way if you are a member of more than one group, you aquire access to the forums that group has, but don't lose access to others.
Basicaly I have 4 major groups that everyone is a member of that uses the forums. Each of those 4 groups have general access. I have 4 smaller groups with extera special access. Then I set up 4 restricted groups with "Dissallow" permissions. So new members who should not have access to private data will be a member of the primary group they are a part of, but also a member of the restriction level that is apropriate for their level in the organization. Once they are fully indocternated, they get removed from the restricted group and aquire the full group permissions.
Works perfect... I was just operating under the wrong model before ;)
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