What members are allowed to see and do: Difference between revisions

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There are a number of actions that members can be allowed to do and links that they can be given permission to on a forum. Most of these actions and links are handled by setting permissions the membergroups which members belong to, while a few of these settings are applied to individual members, regardless of which membergroups to which they belong.

What members can do on boards -- Board Permission Profiles

In SMF 2.0.x, a board permission profile is usually referred to as a permission profile. It is used by an administrator to control what different membergroups (and, therefore, the members in these groups) can see and do. Each board permission profile is a list, for every membergroup on the forum, of the actions that each membergroup which has that board permission profile can take, for example, start topics, reply to topics, modify own posts, or delete own replies.

Creating permission profiles allows administrators to pre-set permissions profiles which can then be applied to individual boards. Each profile allows the permissions to be set by membergroup. That profile can then be applied to one (or more) individual boards. When a profile (other than "default") is applied to a board, the permissions defined by the profile will override the standard permissions of the site (set under "Permissions"), but only for that specific board.

The Permission Profile section comes with several pre-set profiles, like "Read Only" and "Reply Only".

Who is allowed to see which board

In SMF, the ability to see a board is not handled with permissions. To see which membergroups are allowed to view a board, go to Administration Center > Boards > Modify Boards and click the "modify" link on the same line as the board name. To see which boards a given membergroup is allowed to view, go to Administration Center > Members > Membergroups > Edit Membergroups, choose the "modify" link on the same line as the membergroup name, and click the [Show boards] link.

Who can manage membergroup members

This is carried out in Edit Member Groups Administration Center > Members > Membergroups, which is a list of membergroups. Click on the group name to see a list of information about the membergroup, as well as a list of all its members. Click on the modify link to see additional information and settings for this membergroup. Enter the usernames those members who you want to manage the membergroup in question. These members will become group moderators, who are able to add/remove members in this membergroup.

Who can moderate single boards

If you want someone to be able to moderate one or two boards, rather than all the boards on your forum, add that member to the board moderator list by going to Administration Center > Boards > Modify Boards. This member will have all the permissions that belong to the moderators group, but only when they are working on topics in that specific board.

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-Profiles and permissions -- what does it all mean?
+There are a number of actions that [[Member|member]]s can be allowed to do and links that they can be given permission to on a [[Forum|forum]].  Most of these actions and links are handled by setting permissions the [[Membergroup|membergroup]]s which members belong to, while a few of these settings are applied to individual members, regardless of which membergroups to which they belong.
+==What members can do on boards -- Board Permission Profiles==
+In SMF 2.0.x, a board permission profile is usually referred to as a [[Permissions#Edit_Profiles|permission profile]]. It is used by an administrator to control what different membergroups (and, therefore, the members in these groups) can see and do.  Each board permission profile is a list, for every membergroup on the forum, of the actions that each membergroup which has that board permission profile can take, for example, start topics, reply to topics, modify own posts, or delete own replies.
+Creating permission profiles allows administrators to pre-set permissions profiles which can then be applied to individual boards. Each profile allows the permissions to be set by membergroup. That profile can then be applied to one (or more) individual boards. When a profile (other than "default") is applied to a board, the permissions defined by the profile will override the standard permissions of the site (set under "Permissions"), but only for that specific board.
-==Profiles==
+The Permission Profile section comes with several pre-set profiles, like "Read Only" and "Reply Only".
-There are two types of profiles -- member profiles and board permission profiles.
-* '''Member Profile''' -- Describe individual members. When you click on your "Profile" link, or click on a member's username to see their "Profile", you are looking at the [[Profile|member profile]].  This is a list of information about the user's account settings, forum profile, some settings choices the user has made, and links to things like posts, stats, and even a link to send a user a message.
+==Who is allowed to see which board==
-* '''Board Permission Profile''' -- Describe which member groups can do what things on certain boards. Admin sees this list from [[Permissions#Edit_Profiles|PermissionAdministration Center » Permissions » Edit Profiles]].  This is a list of things called "Board Permission Profiles". Each Board Permission Profile is a list, for every member group on the forum, which things (start topics, reply to topics, edit own posts, delete own replies, etc) each member group can do in that board permission profile.  These board permission profiles only have effect when they are applied to a board.  These board permission profiles have a similar function to the local board permissions of SMF 1.x.  Several boards can use the same board permission profile. For more about default board permissions and board permission profiles, please read [[All about permission profiles]].
+In SMF, the ability to see a board is not handled with permissions. To see which membergroups are allowed to view a board, go to ''[[Boards#Modify boards|Administration Center > Boards > Modify Boards]]'' and click the "modify" link on the same line as the board name.  To see which boards a given membergroup is allowed to '''view''', go to ''[[Membergroups#Edit_Membergroups|Administration Center > Members > Membergroups > Edit Membergroups]]'', choose the "modify" link on the same line as the membergroup name, and click the <nowiki>[Show boards]</nowiki> link.
-==Permissions==
+==Who can manage membergroup members==
-There are two basic types of permissions -- permissions to do everything that is not board-related, and board-related permissions.  The ability to view a board, interestingly enough, is not a permission at all.
+This is carried out in '''Edit Member Groups''' ''[[Membergroups#Edit_Membergroups|Administration Center > Members > Membergroups]]'', which  is a list of membergroups.  Click on the group name to see a list of information about the membergroup, as well as a list of all its members.  Click on the '''modify''' link to see additional information and settings for this membergroup.  Enter the usernames those members who you want to manage the membergroup in question.  These members will become group moderators, who are able to add/remove members in this membergroup.
-* "General Permissions" -- describe, in general, what members of each membergroup area allowed to do on the forum.  The permission set here include all sorts of permissions for things that are NOT boards.  They also include all the permissions for the '''Default''' Board Permission Profile.
-* '''Board Permission Profile''' -- See above. Note also that '''Default''' is a board permission profile, and can be edited from [[Permissions#Edit_Profiles|PermissionAdministration Center » Permissions » Edit Profiles]].
-* '''Permission Profile''' -- Admin sees this from Administration Center » Permissions » General Permissions
+==Who can moderate single boards==
+If you want someone to be able to [[Local moderator|moderate]] one or two boards, rather than all the boards on your forum, add that member to the board moderator list by going to ''[[Boards#Modify boards|Administration Center > Boards > Modify Boards]]''.  This member will have all the permissions that belong to the moderators group, but only when they are working on topics in that specific board.
-==Other things that seem like profiles, but are not called that in SMF==
+[[Category:FAQ]]
-'''Edit Member Groups''' -- [[Membergroups#Edit_Membergroups|Administration Center » Membergroups ]] is a list of membergroups.  When you click on the group name, you see a list of information about the membergroup, as well as a list of all members.  When you click on the modify link, you see additional information and settings for this membergroup.  If a list of information and settings about an individual is a member profile, and if a list of information and settings about board permissions is called a board permission profile, why is this list of information and settings about a membergroup not called a membergroup profile? Perhaps some SMF users already feel that there are already one too many things calling themselves "profiles", and using the "profile" term yet again would only be more confusing.  So we will just call this "modify membergroups" and leave it at that.
-==Other things that seem like permissions, but are not==
-'''Who is allowed to see this board''' -- In SMF, the ability to see a board is not handled with permissions. To see which membergroups are allowed to view a board, see [[Boards#Modify boards|Administration Center » Boards » Modify Boards ]] and click the "modify" link on the same line as the board name.  To see which boards a given membergroup can see, see [[Membergroups#Edit_Membergroups|Administration Center » Membergroups » Edit Membergroups]], choose the "modify" link on the same line as the membergroup name, and click the <nowiki>[Show boards]</nowiki> link.
-[[Category:BFG]]

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