Moderators

[Penfold]

Hi Gandy and Whitey.
From this thread

http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?p=276272#post276272

I can't see why Moderators cannot now delete threads and posts. I've looked in vbulletin and can't see the setting. Does it need to be set in each forum or as an overall permission.

Can you please have a look for me?

Thanks

[Gandalf]

Whitey's already on the case

[Whitey]

I've changed the permissions for each of the moderators on each forum to allow them to soft delete.  

Adding new moderators to a forum works fine with the correct permissions so there must have been something done previously to restrict the permissions.

[Penfold]

Thanks Whitey,

That's what threw me. I set up a new moderator and the permissions were in place. It's the incumbent permissions that were fubared. No idea how it happened but thanks for sorting it out.

If it's time consuming job like this, you can always tell me what to do and how to do it and I'll sit there and plug them in :thumbsup2:

I will figure this stuff out eventually.....

[Penfold]

I've changed the permissions for each of the moderators on each forum to allow them to soft delete.  

Adding new moderators to a forum works fine with the correct permissions so there must have been something done previously to restrict the permissions.

Just so I learn this.

I imagine you went:
vb> Forum manager then clicked on the right hand box where it says moderators and clicked on each individual name in that box and manually changed the permission for each person in each box?

Is that right?

[Whitey]

I went into the Admin web page and selected "Forums & Moderators" then selected "Show All Moderators". I then went through and clicked the "Edit" button for each moderator on each forum and changed the permissions where needed.  It didn't take that long to do.

[Gandalf]

With this in mind, I had a quick look at the scripts that assign usergroups based on awards and it looks like the moderators group isn't included.

Now, I seem to recall that as we weren't using that group before this was ok, but it appears that now it is then the script should really assign access to save on admin.

I'm looking at doing this now, one minor issue is that the award is already assigned to a specific group so I will need to tweak the script to take into account one award, two groups.

[Gandalf]

ok, script updated. It can now assign the same award to more than one usergroup.

[Penfold]

Great thanks Gandy. Not too sure what that means but good stuff!