Site groups vs Forum groups

Regular Joined: Mar 26, 2006 Posts: 63

I read a few things on the forums about the difference between the raven nuke groups, and the phpbb groups.

I'm not sure where I should be creating, adding members to groups in order to use them both in the forums and on the site.

Really what I want to do is this.
Three groups.

Administrators
Moderators
Members

I want each group and each groups memberships to show up in both the forums and on the rest of the site to set permissions for the viewing of blocks and other modules.

Does anyone have any details on how to get these working together correctly. I think I may have messed up my current settings tring to play with them to get them to work right.

Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 2:23 pm

I want to think you have to create all the groups in the Raven Admin panel, and then you can add-remove users from the forums correct?

Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 3:51 pm

You need to do everything within the RN groups module and not the forums. The RN Groups module will interact with the forums, but the forums do not interact with RN groups.

registered · Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 6:39 pm

What do you need these groups to do? phpNuke default will handle members and admins: members can only see modules you select are active, admins can of course see them all. With respect to the forums, you already get members/moderators/admin permissions. The only thing left is specific module permissions for your moderators, which you should be able to set using the RN groups module.

Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 7:35 pm

I think he is just looking for a single place to administer the groups instead of having to do twice the work.

Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 10:21 pm

Palbin wrote:

I think he is just looking for a single place to administer the groups instead of having to do twice the work.

Exactly. I wanted to be able to set up forum permissions and permissions for site content on the same set of groups.

Involved Joined: Nov 19, 2003 Posts: 282

What I can see these groups doing (and what they do for me) is allow the site to serve a large geographical area and people who live in two different counties to identify themselves as such and get ads and news boxes for their county.... instead of both counties ... or no counties Shocked

without having to know what a forum is. Wink