Forum Permissions - Bug Track

smilodon · February 10, 2009, 02:22:54 AM

As you have probably seen the new forum structure is up, thanks Penfold.

I've re worked all the forum permissions to match the new forum structure. It's a less tha straightforward job to do this on a live forum and it's a fair bet some people will find themselves unable to to access everything they should.

As of tonight the Green Badge Banter, and Supporting Member Chat forums are still not fully functional. You're going to get your access by way of a cool automated system that grants forum permissions as the specific green badge gets awarded.

Also some of the server admin forums may not be fully configured. Give me a day and it 'should' be working. With the exception of the above if you do find yourself with either restricted or broken access to any areas please post the detail here.

Thanks all

{PEN adds - Please note that there are now no Bravo or Charlie sections so you won't be able to see them. There is also no Dead Men Teams forum as they've been moved to the relevant game threads. Dead Men Folding has also been moved to Community.}

lionheart · February 10, 2009, 11:22:46 AM

Cannot see the forums I could last night from my laptop at work, running IE6. Ive logged out the forum and back in but no joy.

Anonymous · February 10, 2009, 11:57:18 AM

Quote from: lionheart;262873Cannot see the forums I could last night from my laptop at work, running IE6. Ive logged out the forum and back in but no joy.

Can you be more specific please?

no peanuts · February 10, 2009, 12:01:22 PM

Last night at ca. 11.20 the main forum page showed the new section "Badge Holder Banter"... This is no longer showing for me this morning.

Penfold · February 10, 2009, 12:06:56 PM

Please note that there are now no Bravo or Charlie sections so you won't be able to see them.

There is also no Dead Men Teams forum as they've been moved to the relevant game threads. Dead Men Folding has also been moved to Community.

smilodon · February 10, 2009, 12:34:56 PM

There was a short period between Penfold creating the new forums and me setting up the permissions. During this time most of the new areas were open to all. Now that the permissions are done these areas will disappear... for a bit.

There are several forums that are restricted to certain members i.e. there are forums for all the green badge holders, for members of specific game communities, for supporting members and for various admins.

We need to add all these people to their respective user groups which in turn will provide access to the various forums. Rather than Penfold and I going insane by adding them all manually (they run into the hundred of people) Gandy is writing some scripts that will automate this. So for example if Whitey awards you the CS green gaming badge in the future you will automatically gain access to the Green badge holders forum and to a couple of CS specific forums (match tactics etc). It won't need me to manually add you to the various user groups.

These scripts take a little planning and so they will be done over the next few days. Until then some access will not be working. By the weekend it will all be working fine and I'll be in therapy

Thanks for the imput though.

Penfold · February 10, 2009, 12:38:32 PM

I'm just glad you're the one doing the permissions :flirty:

:yahoo:Good work and thanks

lionheart · February 10, 2009, 12:50:50 PM

Cheers for the explanation Smilodon, I'm not going mad then.

Penfold · February 10, 2009, 12:58:37 PM

*The Admins can neither confirm nor deny the accuracy of the above statement

Lexander · February 10, 2009, 01:29:34 PM

Where are the supporting member forums located ? I still think I can see all the same things I saw before

Penfold · February 10, 2009, 01:38:48 PM

Under Private Chat Areas

see them?

Blunt · February 10, 2009, 01:51:07 PM

I can't see the admin sections:sad:

Gone_Away · February 10, 2009, 02:22:37 PM

All I can see are: Community, Gaming, and Community Centre

Penfold · February 10, 2009, 02:43:28 PM

Blunt - I'll tell Smilo

Dan - Permissions are being worked for people to access the relevant privcate chat areas (such as Badge Holders Banter and Supporting Members Chat).

These are being controlled by a script which Gandy made and which run today I believe. Once that is done, hopefully it'll all fall into place.

you're not alone!!!

target · February 10, 2009, 02:45:00 PM

Quote from: Blunt;262915I can't see the admin sections:sad:

:withstupid: