Sync user permissions

[Abraham54]

What I badly miss in XenFor 2 is the possibility to synchronise user permissions.
A feature that is available in phpBB software but not in XenForo.

With a lot user groups en forums it is a hell of a task to make everything in order in XenForo 2.

 

[Paul B]

Synchronise in what way?

XF permissions function differently to phpBB, so it may just need a different approach to what you're used to.

 

[Abraham54]

Hello Brogan, I understand your answer.

 

[TimFL]

Hello Brogan, I understand your answer.

Set up the base permissions for a normal registered user on your forum using the Registered Users group (do not use ‚Never‘ cause it prevents all users from getting that permission, ever). Then you go
through the other groups and set up additional permissions or permission denials, for example:
- Registered users naturally get no View Node on a staff board. Admins get that View Node permission set to ‚Yes‘.

Now every user keeps the registered group as their primary, the others get added as secondary cause they are all set to be passive/inherit for most permissions by default.
Look at usergroups as roles, similar to the ones found on Discord. They are additive by nature. You can do pretty fancy setups if you design your roles/groups properly.

The usergroup xf2 documentation goes into this topic with detail. You can also PM me if you need help with getting permissions set up (took me a bit to figure it all out too).

 

[Abraham54]

Hello Tim - I have already found out how it's works,
But thank you.