Forum - Private Sections

Gandalf · January 30, 2009, 08:06:18 AM

Well they look good to me. It's just the forum re-structuring you've done correct?

As for moving threads, there is a bulk move option in the Threads & Posts part of the admin CP. Have a play on the test forum to get a feel for it.

Penfold · January 30, 2009, 08:21:04 AM

Yup.

So I presume by deleting the no defunct forums instead of moving them I've buggered it up somewhat?

In hindsight, I guess I should have created a new forum with the restructured tree and moved the existing forum to another section. Then, once the new structure was in place, move the threads from the existing forums into the new forum and archiving defunct sections?

Or can the posts from this forum be incorporated into the new structure?

Confused from Surrey :g:

Gandalf · January 30, 2009, 08:26:49 AM

Ahh you've deleted forums? Not sure what that does to the posts as I've never deleted one before! You can re-name existing forums and then move to where they need to go and create new for any that you need.

Anyway, the forum part is the easy bit. It's the permissions that gets interesting and will require some thought

I am about tomorrow so can assist if required. We could always hook up on TS to talk over the more tricky items.

Penfold · January 30, 2009, 09:47:51 AM

Ok so that's FBAR'ed.

Can you refresh the test forum from this one so i can start again and not delete the forums - sorry

With regards to permissions, I ain't touching it. I don't understand it am not doing it without help. I'm just not confident enough

Thanks

PEN

Gandalf · January 30, 2009, 09:57:12 AM

I can refresh them, yes. But it will slow down everything while the restore occurs.

Penfold · January 30, 2009, 10:06:24 AM

Sorry - let's do it now as it's a quiet time rather than over the weekend.

Everyone can blame me - I can take it

I'll post it up in announcements section

PEN

Gandalf · January 30, 2009, 10:43:08 AM

all done. took about 20 minutes and it does totally freeze up the server as apache and mysql live on the same box.

I am planning on getting a separate DB server but that won't be for a while so please try not to mess this one up as I won't be doing a restore again for a while :narnar:

Penfold · January 30, 2009, 10:54:05 AM

Yeah didn't realise it totally froze it.

OK. So I'm going to have another go.

This is my plan:

1. rename forums to new name and location where possible.
2. Move no defunct forums to separate 'to be filed' holding area
3. create new missing forums
4. move 'to be filed' forums to archive or relevant posts to other sections.

Am I right in thinking that once we're happy with this then we'll do it on the real forum rather than make the test forum the real one (so we don't lost posts in between).

PEN

Gandalf · January 30, 2009, 11:04:03 AM

yup, make notes of the steps you use as we will not be able to do a 'make test live' operation.

Anonymous · January 30, 2009, 11:10:07 AM

Quote from: Gandalf;260984I am planning on getting a separate DB server but that won't be for a while so please try not to mess this one up as I won't be doing a restore again for a while :narnar:

Question: Would it not be possible to use some of the huge amounts of horsepower in BA4 to run that for you?

Gandalf · January 30, 2009, 11:13:55 AM

not really as the database also has business related db's too.

Anonymous · January 30, 2009, 11:57:10 AM

Quote from: Gandalf;260995not really as the database also has business related db's too.

Ah well, it was worth a shot to see if we could help out.

smilodon · January 30, 2009, 07:49:32 PM

Do not fear about the permissions. I've already made up a few dummy permission trees for when the forum structure is done. Obviously I'll need to tweak it when the forum structure is complete, as I cannot see the test forums.

Worryingly the permissions seems reasonably straight forward. So I'm clearly heading for a disaster :blink:

A couple of thoughts/queries though.

1. Do we want a single game admin group or one for each game. I.e. do we want admins from WOW seeing the private admin forums for racing or CS seeing CoD4? I only ask as it might cause a problem if say WOW officer comes to CoD4 and behaves badly on the server. If he's an officer in WOW he may be able to see the admins in CoD4 discussing his behaviour, lack of understanding of the rules etc. etc. Likewise the other game sections? Personally I'm working on a forum group for each game so having permissions for each gaming section would not be a big issue.

2. Do we want to make a destinction between badge holders and subscribers (payers)? Some people may obviously be one but not the other. Will we be having forum sections accessabel by subscribers but not non subscribers? Would having a badge offer the same priviledges as paying subs?

OldBloke · January 30, 2009, 08:36:25 PM

Quote from: smilodon;261120Do not fear about the permissions. I've already made up a few dummy permission trees for when the forum structure is done. Obviously I'll need to tweak it when the forum structure is complete, as I cannot see the test forums.

Worryingly the permissions seems reasonably straight forward. So I'm clearly heading for a disaster :blink:

A couple of thoughts/queries though.

1. Do we want a single game admin group or one for each game. I.e. do we want admins from WOW seeing the private admin forums for racing or CS seeing CoD4? I only ask as it might cause a problem if say WOW officer comes to CoD4 and behaves badly on the server. If he's an officer in WOW he may be able to see the admins in CoD4 discussing his behaviour, lack of understanding of the rules etc. etc. Likewise the other game sections? Personally I'm working on a forum group for each game so having permissions for each gaming section would not be a big issue.

2. Do we want to make a destinction between badge holders and subscribers (payers)? Some people may obviously be one but not the other. Will we be having forum sections accessabel by subscribers but not non subscribers? Would having a badge offer the same priviledges as paying subs?

1. Because of the way WOW works it is best that the WOW structure remains as it is now with private sections self contained. A single game admin group will suffice as it's now the red badge that denotes the game administered and not the (defunct) title under the name.

2. We want a single section just for Supporting Members (subscribers).

Armitage · January 30, 2009, 10:18:52 PM

Could i add another cod4 sub forum

..CoD4 dMw Ladder (public)

cheers