XF 1.2 Secret board/user upgrade issue

[Rho Delta]

I created a board I only want donors to be able to see, you can donate through the user upgrade page to become a sustaining member (a new usergroup)... I thought I configured this correct but the users cant see the hidden forum. I revoked permission (revoke, not never) for all other usergroups except admins.

Here is the sustaining member permissions for that node:

I have Private Node selected.

The upgrade page:

 

[Rho Delta]

Any help figuring this out would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Jeremy]

Don't make the node private. Revoke the viewing permissions on the Registered group.

 

[Martok]

Don't make the node private. Revoke the viewing permissions on the Registered group.

Out of interest, why can't you have it as a Private Node? I always thought private nodes were the best way to restrict forums to certain usergroups.

 

[Jeremy]

If selected, users will only be able to view this node if they are explicitly granted permissions.

 

[Rho Delta]

So thats like if you want to give individual users permission to see it on a user by user basis?

 

[Jeremy]

Yes.

 

[Rho Delta]

Don't make the node private. Revoke the viewing permissions on the Registered group.

Unfortunately that didn't seem to fix the issue. Could it be that the user upgrade only makes that group a secondary group for the user?

 

[Jeremy]

No. Secondary user groups are the intended usage of groups within XenForo. What are your permissions for the forum for the Registered user group?

 

[Martok]

Ah. So manually adding them to a secondary usergroup that has view permissions to a private node counts as explicitly granting them permissions whereas doing so through a user upgrade doesn't count as explicitly granting them permissions.

So what about usergroup promotions? Would these not be classed as explicitly granting permissions either?

 

[Paul B]

All additional user groups are secondary, that is how the system works.

Use the Permissions Analyzer to determine why the node isn't visible.

 

[Mike]

Private node is fine. It just sets a revoke on every user group -- it's similar to just revoking view on registered, but obviously it applies to guests as well (and applies if you don't use registered as primary for everyone).

I would recommend using the permissions analysis feature. It sounds like you have a "Never" somewhere.

 

[Rho Delta]

No. Secondary user groups are the intended usage of groups within XenForo. What are your permissions for the forum for the Registered user group?

Every permission for registered users is set to revoke for the Registered group.

 

[Jeremy]

You'll then need to use the Permissions Analyzer to determine why it isn't functioning correctly.

 

[Rho Delta]

Private node is fine. It just sets a revoke on every user group -- it's similar to just revoking view on registered, but obviously it applies to guests as well (and applies if you don't use registered as primary for everyone).

I would recommend using the permissions analysis feature. It sounds like you have a "Never" somewhere.

Here are the permissions for one of the users in question.

 

[Mike]

They can't see the "Secret Boards" forum, which is presumably above this forum. If you can't see a parent forum, you can never see a child.

 

[Rho Delta]

They can't see the "Secret Boards" forum, which is presumably above this forum. If you can't see a parent forum, you can never see a child.

Gotcha.

 

[Rho Delta]

Worked, thanks!