ItzFire__ New member Apr 21, 2021 #1 Hello! I was looking for an easier way to set up permissions on my website, and I found inherit permissions. How do they work? Thanks
Hello! I was looking for an easier way to set up permissions on my website, and I found inherit permissions. How do they work? Thanks
nocte Well-known member Apr 21, 2021 #2 Basically if a user has more than 1 permission (e.g. assigned to 2 user groups), then the "best" permission is applied. A "never" permission in any user group overrules all other permissions, so the user does not have that permission. Read more here: User groups | Manual | XenForo End-user documentation for XenForo xenforo.com Edit: If you talk about node permissions, see https://xenforo.com/docs/xf2/groups-permissions/#node-permissions Initially, these permissions are inherited from the global permission values. If you customize a permission for a particular node, that new value will now be inherited by any child nodes as well, unless they too customize the value. Click to expand... Last edited: Apr 21, 2021 Upvote 1 Downvote
Basically if a user has more than 1 permission (e.g. assigned to 2 user groups), then the "best" permission is applied. A "never" permission in any user group overrules all other permissions, so the user does not have that permission. Read more here: User groups | Manual | XenForo End-user documentation for XenForo xenforo.com Edit: If you talk about node permissions, see https://xenforo.com/docs/xf2/groups-permissions/#node-permissions Initially, these permissions are inherited from the global permission values. If you customize a permission for a particular node, that new value will now be inherited by any child nodes as well, unless they too customize the value. Click to expand...