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Topic: Modification of Members and Groups

Posted By: Mireigi
Subject: Modification of Members and Groups
Date Posted: 23 December 2008 at 8:48am

Hello everyone,

I work for a firm specializing in CMS-based webpages and am currently working on extending some of the capabilities of your (Web Wiz) forum. Our customer, which will be using the forum, have requested the following requirements:

Teachers must be able create classes and assign students to these.
Teachers are only allowed to access classes that they themselves have created, and those assigned to them by the Forum Administrator.
Students are only allowed to access their class forum(s).
On special occations, multiple classes will be working together in projects, and will, be required to access a common class forum.

Legend:
Teacher = Moderator
Student = Member
Class = Group

My question for you is this:
How do I modify the forum to reflect these restrictions/permissions?

If that is not possible, then, if allowed, what is the minimum file requirement that I must copy to our CMS system in order to implement the above features there.

Regards,
Mireigi

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Replies:

Posted By: Putz22
Date Posted: 23 December 2008 at 3:22pm

It seems the way I read it you might want to go into the Admin Section of the forums and under the Group permissions you can adjust which permissions each group has.. of you can create another group by using the Group Admin and you can determine what permissions they have there when the group gets created...

Posted By: Mireigi
Date Posted: 02 January 2009 at 7:36am

As far as I can tell, there is currently no way to set the permissions for a group to include membership management. All of the permissions are related to forum posts, and not forum control.

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I have no limits, until proven otherwise.

Posted By: diaperpin-jen
Date Posted: 03 January 2009 at 10:25pm

I'd say you are correct Mireigi. Only administrators of the forum can provide the custom access that you need. Perhaps there are a handful of teachers who you can give admin access to....

Posted By: Putz22
Date Posted: 03 January 2009 at 11:27pm

Jen is Right.. As the Admin will have total control of the Forum... As this is control issue.. and that the Admin will have complete control and no others.. I know that Talking with Bruce that there might be new Admin Right to moderators.. such as having control of certain sections of the forums.. might have to wait until Version 10 to have this

Posted By: Mireigi
Date Posted: 04 January 2009 at 5:54am

I found a work-around for the issue thursday or so. By editing a few lines in the file "admin_common.asp" and saving it as a "admin_common2.asp", I was able to allow moderators access to select parts of the administrative tools by changing the include file for the needed files to the one I made.

I can post the code on monday when I get back to work.

We will need Version 10 anyway though, as "topic ratings" are also needed in the system.

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I have no limits, until proven otherwise.