XF 2.3 Moderate an entire Category?

[Senkusha]

I need the ability to assign moderator powers to a group of boards within a single category. What's the easiest/best way to accomplish this?

I could assign a user as a Moderator, but that only allows me to grant access to the Entire Forum or to an individual board. I could create a User Group, but then how do I lock that user group down to only apply to specific Nodes?

 

[Harpers Tate]

Sadly lacking in XF's permissions setup and the subject of a long-outstanding change request I made.

You can't allocate specific Moderator permissions for a given node by UserGroup; only at an individual node<>user level. The node can be a category (with no posts of its own) or a parent node (normal forum, with sub-forum/s) or a child node (no sub-forums) etc; whatever level you want to apply it.

Whatever level you choose, permissions will apply there and to anything under it. So, in the AdminCP Groups & Permissions > Moderators list, you'd "Add Moderator", choose the username and choose the category or forum and then apply the required permissions in the section "Forum moderator permissions" (and not elsewhere). Then do the same for the next user and/or the next node.

 

[Kirby]

You can't allocate specific Moderator permissions for a given node by UserGroup; only at an individual node<>user level.

This is not correct, it is possible to set moderative permissions for a node by usergroup, just like you can set any other non-moderative node permissions.

 

[Harpers Tate]

I should have been clearer. It's the situation where you have several Moderators, and several nodes, and some (or all) Moderators do NOT oversee all the nodes; each has their own "patch" which is only part of the whole. That is what is not readily set up.