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Lilie most of what you want is already possible I think and you can get help to add missing bits.
ACCOUNTS ... able to post, and need to be able to have the main account edit these posts. The main account should be able to do everything to the character accounts, without you having to log in and out, or switch accounts.
OK start by learning correct XF names as it'll make it easier to discuss.
Admin = the first user of the XF system when it is set up, most probably you. You can create more admins if you wish.
Admins can do most things on XF, editing others ability to do things through
permissions.
There is an XF oddity which is not obvious about moderator abilities. These are things like moderating people's posts. You have to manually make yourself a moderator as well as an admin as the default XF starts off with these separate.
Users are the rest of the
members and
guests. So admins control what users can do in the admin area called the
admincp.
Guests are visitors who are not registered members.
Now there is an addon by waindigo which is very good called
Login As User.
Install it, and very important, add the permission to use this ability to your admin account. Or whoever you want to use it. You can also add this to a group, eg moderators.
The admin or whoever can now click a link right at the top Login As User. they can then behave as if they are this user 100%. Return to admin status by clicking the Return to .. link at top.
Very useful to check what a user sees, how their permissions are working, and sort out problems they may create.
You will very likely need a bit of help figuring out giving permissions to your users, It's a powerful system but not simple. XF 1.2 on the way soon will have some great helps.
Meanwhile Brogan's manual (link top of the Home page) has a helpful section.
The basics are to make your Registered accounts Primary and carry almost no permissions! Maybe use Conversations. (otherwise all grey on the permissions list)
This means you can then add permissions to members very sensitively.
For example, make a
Basic Member group who can Post, and View Attachments. The reason you don't put these basics on your Registered group is in case you want a group or an individual who cannot post, or view attachments.
Don't add View at the top or you wont be able to control who sees which area.
I also find it useful to think of
Key Usergroups. These are my 3-4 groups who have different major abilities - post, attach, create threads, edit own, edit other, delete.
They also have access to view different areas. Access to view is done on the Applications/ Node Tree - click the Permissions box on the node line, and edit each of these Key Usergroups access by ticking them green to view etc.
These are the usergroups I make show up as titles as they are ahierarchy os status in the community eg Elders, Moderators, Members, Newcomers.
Then there are Extra Usergroups which add special extras like using an addon powers, or in my case identifying where a member is located. These are secondary matters not basics.
I'm not sure what your user
elements and affinities iare about. You can certainly have many user permissions that don't show on the
frontend (public display). Get used to the idea of permissions and tell us what capacities these elements and affinities are about. Then we'll see. I don't think this is a problem though because there are loads of permissions to select.
Customising the design is mostly fun and easy and you don't need to be a programmer to do it. The simplest is putting in your own header logo and changing colours. There's an admin system for that.
The
membercard can be edited and several kind people have posted guides on how to do it, notably Shelley who is our queen of design.
You need to get used to
templates under Admin/ Appearances. On th e templates page put EXTRA in the search box at top. that gives you your very own safe playground to paste in code snippets Shelley and others give you. It wont hurt your install. If you bog it up, either the system refuses to save it, or if you sont like the result, use Undo/ Ctrl+Z to remove the last thing you did and try agon. See my tutorial in my signature.
For more ambitious designs there are excellent designers here. Many post free designs, some are paid, or you can ask for custom.
Have a look in Resources, top
navbar.
