Austin Headley

Be mindful that I know nothing and you shouldn't listen to me, however from a couple minutes of investigating it appears there are four different classes assigned to the four types of forums (cForumIcon_normal, cForumIcon_answers, cForumIcon_password, and cForumIcon_redirect) that you can override with some simple css. Something like the code below placed in the custom.css should do the trick. .cForumIcon_normal { content: url("https://www.yourwebsite.com/path_to_img/normal.png"); } .cForumIcon_redirect { content: url("https://www.yourwebsite.com/path_to_img/redirect.png"); } .cForumIcon_password { content: url("https://www.yourwebsite.com/path_to_img/password.png"); } .cForumIcon_answers { content: url("https://www.yourwebsite.com/path_to_img/answers.png"); }

Thanks for the clarification, I was afraid this was the case. I would assume you're right as far as the secondary group idea, that might be the way I need to go. My use-case deals with employees so in general trust isn't a huge concern, more of an idiot-proofing if you will. I can definitely work around it so it's not a huge deal, just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing a way to make my job easier 😂 Thank you both for the help.

I swear this was always a function of IPB, but I can't seem to figure out how to set moderator permissions by individual forum for a user group. For example, I need to allow Group A to be able to Pin topics in Forum A, but not close topics. Also, I need Group A to be able to close topics in Forum B, but not pin topics. As I see it, I can allow Group A to Pin and Close topics in only both those forums, but I see no way to allow pinning only in one forum and closing topics only in another forum, without giving the group the ability to Pin and Close topics in both forums. Is this no longer possible? Thanks for the help

Thanks Jim, that answers my curiosity. None of this has any actual effect on the production environment of my community so no biggie and I appreciate you submitting my input for review.

Thanks for taking the time to help! This is a Community-in-the-Cloud server and says the version is 4.6.9. It was just set up a few short days ago. As for the SQL toolbox, I can access it by the direct link, but for the life of me I cannot find an actual clickable link in the ACP anywhere. Below is a screenshot of the support page from an unrestricted admin view: As for what I am actually trying to do? Nothing at all really. In production I don't believe I would ever realistically give anyone permissions set up like this as anyone that can be trusted with access to the SQL toolbox can certainly be trusted with unrestricted ACP access. I am simply new to this software and I am trying to learn and understand it and frankly the ACP permissions system feels kind of unpolished compared to the rest of the suite. When I say unpolished, I mean for example, why does the setting with the red dot below control whether or not a user can see the support page at module=support&controlller=support even if all the other permissions are checked? If I give someone access to just the system logs under support (for example), my intuition would suggest that they would be able to access the support page, and then the system logs under the support page, but that is not the case as they do not have access to the support page to even access the system logs that they have access to. If "Can contact technical support?" is required to allow access to the settings below, then why are they not nested as such in the settings to make that clear to the admin user setting permissions? I feel like I have to be missing some important details because it seems insane to me that such a powerful, well developed and maintained application would act in this way. Why have such a rich, customizable permissions system if you cannot individually assign permissions without reliance on other permissions {which is made clear no where to the person setting those permissions) I understand that in practicality, this would never be an actual issue, but one of the selling points that made me go with this software was the advanced permissions system and it is making me very sad to run into issues like this.

Have a few questions, hoping someone can point me in the right direction. 1. Is there a comprehensive list of what ACP permissions allow in detail more than the simple labels on the permissions settings page? 2. If #1 is a no, then can someone please explain more clearly what the following permissions actually do? 3. Where in the ACP is an actual link to the SQL toolbox? I have spent two hours searching and cannot find a link anywhere, including the support page, to the SQL toolbox. 4. When permissions are set with only allowed what is shown below, why does the user's ACP have access to nothing but the dashboard as shown in the last, larger image? That user can access SQL Toolbox through a direct link if the URL is known but otherwise nothing is otherwise shown to them. Thank you for your time and any help is greatly appreciated.