XF 2.0 User group system

myselfolli

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So I've been keeping myself busy setting up a forum using the (overall) really awesome software. But either I am completely misunderstanding the user group system, or it's implemented in a rather ... interesting way.

Let's take the report system for example. Submitting reports is easy, no problems there. But if I want my staff to be able to work on said reports, I have to individually assign them to be either a forum moderator or super moderator? Why can't I just allow a specific user group to see reports?
Also on the topic of user groups, I've been unable to create a proper hierarchy the way I want it, starting with unregistered visitors at the bottom to administrators at the very top. Sure I can create the user groups, but there is no real connection between the groups, no way for me to allow groups to inherit permissions from the groups lower down in the hierarchy.

As I said, I might just be misunderstanding the user group system, I've found the rest of the software to be really fleshed out and thought-out, hence why I am somewhat suprised by this system.

Any feedback would be greatly appreaciated!
 
You do need to make specific users moderators. This is a particular flag in the system that allows access to certain moderator-level areas, which currently includes reports and approval queue elements. Within that, what they can act on is based on their permissions.

In terms of the group system, you do need to approach it differently than you may be used to. There is no linear path. Groups should be treated as roles and used in an additive way. See this explanation in our manual: https://xenforo.com/xf2-docs/manual/groups-permissions/

(There are a couple resources that expand on this too: https://xenforo.com/community/resources/understanding-permissions.360/ and https://xenforo.com/community/resources/implementing-permissions-across-multiple-user-groups.358/ . Note that they're based on XF1 and the terms used are slightly different.)
 
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