SMF1.1:Permissions

General Permissions

General

• View forum statistics - The collected statistics of an SMF forum that can be found in the Info Center
• View the memberlist - A list of all registered members of an SMF forum. It can be found in the Info Center
• View Who's Online - A summary of who's on an SMF forum, and it can be found in the Info Center
• Search for posts and topics - Allows users to search the forums using keywords and phrases. Can be found in the navigation bar.
• Change other people's karma - Allows users to edit the karma of other users. This displays as +X/-X or +X beside the posts of members, where X is the member's karma totals.

Calendar

• View the calendar - Determines whether or not a user can view the calendar of an SMF forum. It can be found in the navigation bar.
• Create events in the calendar - Determines whether or not a user can create new events in the calendar.
• Edit events in the calendar - Determines whether or not a user can edit events in the calendar.

Forum Administration

• Administrate forum and database - Determines whether or not a user can change database connection properties, edit server settings, etc.
• Manage boards and categories - Determines whether or not users can create, modify, and/or delete boards and categories.
• Manage attachments and avatars - Determines whether or not users can manage and delete attachments on the forum.
• Manage smileys - Determines whether or not a user can change smiley sets, delete smileys, and change smiley options.
• Edit news - Determines whether or not a user can edit the forum's news.

Member administration

• Moderate forum members - Determines whether or not a user can register users manually, track IP addresses, online status, etc.
• Manage and assign membergroups - Determines whether or not users can create, manage, or delete membergroups.
• Manage permissions - Determines whether or not users can manage member permissions.
• Manage ban list - Determines whether or not a user can ban other members and/or discontinue bans.
• Send a forum email to members - Determines whether or not a user can send an e-mail in bulk to all members or individual membergroups; this keeps the users from having to reveal their own e-mail addresses.

Personal Messaging Read personal messages - Determines whether or not a user can view personal messages sent to him or her.

• Send personal messages - Determines whether or not a user can send personal messages to other members.

Member Profiles

• View profile summary and stats - Determines whether or not a user can view profile summaries and member stats.
• Edit account settings - Determines whether or not a user can edit their own account's settings as well as the account settings of all members.
• Edit additional profile settings -Determines whether or not users can edit individual forum preferences such as their avatar, theme preferences, notifications and Personal Message settings. If this is not checked, the user will be forced to use the default settings
• Edit custom title - Determines whether or not users can edit their custom titles.
• Delete account- Determines whether or not a member can delete their account or other members' accounts.
• Select an avatar from the server - Determines whether or not a user can select an avatar from the avatars uploaded on the forum.
• Upload an avatar to the server - Determines whether or not a user can upload their personal avatar to the server.
• Choose a remotely stored avatar - Determines if a user can use an avatar from another server or site.

Board Permissions

General

• Moderate board - Determines whether or not people in this membergroup can moderate the boards they have access to.

Topics

• Post new topics - Determines whether or not people in this membergroup can post new topics.
• Merge any topic - Determines whether or not people in this membergroup can merge topics.
• Split any topic - Determines whether or not people in this membergroup can split topics.
• Send topics to friends - Determines whether or not people in this membergroup can send topics to their friends via email.
• Make topics sticky - Determines whether or not people in this membergroup can make some topics sticky topics.
• Move topic - Determines whether or not people in this membergroup can move their own topics, all topics, or no topics at all.
• Lock topics - Determines whether or not people in this membergroup can lock their own topics, all topics, or no topics at all.
• Remove topics - Determines whether or not people in this membergroup can remove their own topics, all topics, or no topics at all.
• Post replies to topics - Determines whether or not people in this membergroup can Post replies to their own topics, all topics, or no topics at all.
• Modify replies to own topics - Determines whether or not people in this membergroup can modify replies to their own topics.
• Delete replies to own topics - Determines whether or not people in this membergroup can delete replies to their own topics.
• Announce topic - Determines whether or not people in this membergroup can announce (send topic by email or private message) their topics.

Posts

• Delete posts - Determines whether or not people in this membergroup can delete their own posts, all posts, or no posts at all.
• Modify posts - Determines whether or not people in this membergroup can modify their own posts, all posts, or no posts at all.
• Report posts to the moderators - Determines whether or not people in this membergroup will be able to report posts to the forum moderators that receive forum notifications.

Polls

• View polls - Determines whether or not people in this membergroup will be able to view polls.
• Vote in polls - Determines whether or not people in this membergroup will be able to vote in polls they can see.
• Post Polls - Determines whether or not people in this membergroup will be able to make their own polls.
• Add poll to topics - Determines whether or not people in this membergroup are allowed to add polls to existing topics. The forum admins can choose whether they must have posted the topic, or if they can add it to any Topic they can see.
• Edit polls - Determines whether or not people in this membergroup can edit their polls, any polls, or no polls at all. This permission allows a user to edit the polls options, reset the poll, edit the maximum number of votes, and edit the expiration time of the poll. In order to edit the maximum number of votes and the expiration time a user needs to have the 'Moderate board' permission.
• Lock polls - Determines whether or not people in this membergroup can lock their own polls, any polls, or no polls at all.
• Remove polls - Determines whether or not people in this membergroup can remove their own polls, any polls, or no polls at all.

Notifications

• Request notification on replies - Determines whether or not people in this membergroup will be able to request notification on replies to topics they select.
• Request notification on new topics - Determines whether or not people in this membergroup will be able to request notification when new topics get posted in a board.

Attachments

• View Attachments - Determines whether or not people in this membergroup can view attachments.
• Post Attachments - Determines whether or not people in this membergroup can Post attachments on topics.

Edit Profiles

Edit Profiles

All the existing profiles are listed along with the number of boards using each profile. From this table is also possible to delete profiles by checking the checkbox on the right corresponding to the profile that should be removed and then selecting the button Remove Selected.

New Profile

• Profile Name - In this box is possible to define the name of the new profile.
• Copy Permissions From - By selecting one of the existing profiles from this dropdown box the permissions from this profile will be used for the newly created profile.

Post Moderation

In this section admins can define the actions that require Post Moderation for each permission profile.
Four actions are present:

• New Topics
• Own Replies
• Any Replies
• Attachments

for each membergroup is possible to decide if the action is allowed, denied or needs moderation by selecting the appropriate option:

• - The members can perform the action.
• - The members can perform the action, but approval is required before becoming visible to all other members.
• - The member cannot perform the action.

Settings

• Membergroups allowed to manage permissions - Administrators can select which membergroups are allowed to manage permissions.
• Enable the option to deny permissions - Once enabled along with granting permissions it will be possible also to deny any permission. Denied permissions are not allowed even if the member belong to another membergroup for which the permission is granted.
• Enable permissions for post count based groups - Determines whether or not membergroups based on post count can be used to manage permissions.

Permission Profiles

The Permission Profile page of the Permissions section of the Administration Panel is used to configure permission profiles for your forum.

Why should I use a permission profile?

A Permission profile is useful in cases where you want to limit a user group from having a certain permission in a certain board or boards. A permission profile can also be used to limit a specific user in the same way given that the user is added to a new group that takes advantage of the change in the profile.

What is a permission profile?

A Permission profile is essentially a "Profile" of permissions configurations for your membergroups. Permission profiles only contain board related permissions, You can assign whatever permission profile you want to each of your boards. A board that opts to use a certain profile will have membergroups obtain the permissions that the profile grants for each group to have. A default "global" permission profile is assigned to boards that don't have their own custom permission profile assigned to it.

The Permission Profile Entrance Page

As you enter the Permission Profiles page you will see two tables.

The table at the top list the names of all of the permission profiles that already exist on your forum. To edit the permissions for a profile, simply select the name of the profile you wish to edit. You will also see a Delete checkbox next to permission profiles that you added yourself (not built in) that you can select to delete the profile as long as it is not used by a board currently.

The table below that is used to create a new permission profile. You can input the name you want to give the permission profile in the Profile Name field. Below that you can copy the membergroup permissions configuration from another profile by selecting a profile in the selection box labeled Copy Permissions From. If you leave the selection at Default, the profile will start off with the same permissions that are used for your global board permissions.

Editing Permission Profile Permissions

Upon name of the permission profile you will be taken to a page that looks just like the default page you are taken to when you go to the Permissions section of your Administration Panel. However you are editing permissions for a completely different profile when you are taken to this page. That is, unless you select the Default built in profile, which would allow you to edit the same "global" permissions from the default permissions page, except it would be only for board specific permissions.

How do I use a Permission Profile?

Once you have created your profile, modify the board you want to apply the profile to and select the profile from the Permission Profile drop down.

Further information about permission profile(s) can be found here

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