Permission profiles - an overview

SMF enables you to have separate permissions for each board, so that different membergroups can do different things on different boards. For example, this can be useful if you want users to be allowed to reply to posts, but not to create new topics in a certain board.

First you need to enable local permissions, by going to Admin > Permissions > Settings and selecting Enable advanced by-board permissions.

You can set the board to use local permissions under the Permissions by board tab. Click on the board name to add or change the permissions for each group. These permissions will only apply to this one particular board. For each board that requires custom permissions, you need to set them manually and apply them to each board.

SMF 2.0 uses a system of permission profiles which can be created and edited at Admin > Permissions > Edit Profiles. You can then assign a permission profile to a board when you edit the board. You can use a permission profile on multiple boards.

There are some pre-defined profiles available, which you can see in SMF 1.0 when you edit the boards permissions in the drop down "Apply Pre-Defined Permission Profile". In SMF 2.0, they are shown when you go to Admin > Permissions > Edit Profiles. You can not change these pre-defined permissions, though, as they are the default profiles. These pre-defined profiles do not include permissions for any mods that you may have installed, so you should verify that the mod permissions are correct. It may be easier to create a custom profile, instead of using a pre-defined one, because you can be more certain as to what permissions are given to your members.