Setting User level in Forums

Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 6:12 pm

I just installed a fresh load of Raven's distro.
Everything went smooth.
I searched for this problem but foudn only vague comparisons, and no solutions.

After installing, I can access Nuke Admin, Forums Admin and everythign looks ok...except, the type of Post option when creating a new topic is not there.

Normal, Sticky, or Announcement do not show up.

So I went to my Nuke Forums admin and under User permissions "tried" to set my user status from User to Admin. This setting wont change. I am still a user.
So I went to look at my database and my user_level is 3?? So I set it to 2 and all is well, but this is NO solution.

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when you do all that are you logged in as admin or member?

Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 6:07 am

I am logged in as admin and a member

Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 6:10 am

try only logged in as member...and see if your recognised as moderator.
to check...
visit you forum index (where all forums show) and look at the bottom...
you should see..

You can moderate this forum

Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 6:25 am

Yes I do after I have altered my user_level in the database. It WAS 3, and I made it 2 which is what it is supposed to be.

The problem is that the Forum Admin User permissions is will not let you change a users status from User to Admin or Admin to User...

Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 6:36 am

Admin?
you mean moderator?
Huh..
you cant create admins in your forum nor such a status.
you can only look up forums and look up members,then you can set them as moderator.

Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 6:54 am

Go to Forums admin, then click Permissions under Users.
Bring up a username and in the top left is a drop down where you can change from User to Admin..this function DOES NOT WORK.

Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 7:01 am

ah you mean that....lol
but i even checked that and it works fine for me....
bit weird for a new install...

so no errors?
Even with error report on?

Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 7:03 am

Nope, no errors...it is really wierd.

Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 8:41 am

well i dont know if its a bug or not,and i think its not a function that is used often...
i suggest you pm raven or kguske for some feedback on this...

Hangin' Around Joined: May 05, 2006 Posts: 30

Hiya, just wanted to let know that I have the exact same issue.

Fresh Raven 2.02.02 distribution with little tweaks, but with a former phpbb database patched to bbtonuke. A couple of users were already set as Administrators, but I can't make any others to administrators or revert those that were Administrators to just Users.

New Member Joined: Oct 31, 2006 Posts: 7

Did anyone find a solution to this as I have the exact same problem, a fresh install, with a former phpbb user table converted. I would really appreciate some help as its doing my head in Shocked

Involved Joined: Jul 15, 2004 Posts: 252 Location: OKC, OK

This may be from left field, but I seem to remember when I first installed RN 2.02.02 that it put all new users in a group and that caused some problems for me kinda like you are having, I went in and deleted all groups and that fixed the problem.

Look to see if the user is in any groups and remove them or the group and see if that works.

Wish I could remember better what happened but it was months ago.