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[Garthilk]

In Vbulletin, I've got Public (Joinable) Custom Usergroups setup for specific topics. Example, I've got forums for Topic X. On my forums you cannot read the forums for Topic X unless you've joined and been accepted to the public usergroup for Topic X. Is there a way to do this in IPB?

[Pereira]

I don't know if it does what you require but have you looked at this mod? http://community.inv...-social-groups/

More on it here: http://demo.beyondfo...ocial%20groups/

You could contact the user who made it and ask if it caters to your specific needs.

[Ben Stillman]

I've asked the same question before. There isn't anything that does what we're looking for Garthilk. I've been toying around trying to figure out how to replace this. I'll probably end up writing a quick mod for it once I buy an IPB license.

[Garthilk]

Ben Stillman, on 02 August 2011 - 10:25 AM, said:

I've asked the same question before. There isn't anything that does what we're looking for Garthilk. I've been toying around trying to figure out how to replace this. I'll probably end up writing a quick mod for it once I buy an IPB license.

So,

If I setup a usergroup, the only way for a person to get into the usergroup is if an admin moves them there manually? Are there any work arounds, IE a membership usergroup that people can use a promo code to get into, or something?

[Jυra]

What are you really asking for that those two links posted don't have?

[Garthilk]

Jυra, on 02 August 2011 - 08:08 PM, said:

What are you really asking for that those two links posted don't have?

It's not a built in feature. I'm simply asking if there is a way to do what Vbulletin does, IE, without an addon.

[Ben Stillman]

Jυra, on 02 August 2011 - 08:08 PM, said:

What are you really asking for that those two links posted don't have?

Publicly joinable user groups, not social groups. For instance, on my site (http://www.ohioriders.net incase you want to sign up and see what I'm talking about), we have some forums (not work safe, ranting and raving, etc) blocked from public view. In order to see them, you have to go to the "Group Memberships" tab in the user control panel. Then you have to select the group, and click join group. Doing so means you agree to the terms:

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Raw and Uncensored
**WARNING** By joining this group, you understand you will gain access to the "Ranting and Raving" and "Not Work Safe" forums which are rarely moderated. Joining this group and accessing these forums is not advised, and you do so at your own risk.

On the backend, all it does is add the "Raw and Uncensored" user group to the user's additional user groups. This is a built in feature in vBulletin. So are social groups for that matter.

[Garthilk]

Yeah Ben did a better job of explaining it.

Simply, it's a public group that people can join that applies additional permissions onto your primary usergroup. So you can do everything your primary usergroup permissions allow, plus all the things the public group also allows.

[TheMusicMan]

Ben Stillman, on 03 August 2011 - 11:05 AM, said:

Publicly joinable user groups, not social groups. For instance, on my site (http://www.ohioriders.net incase you want to sign up and see what I'm talking about), we have some forums (not work safe, ranting and raving, etc) blocked from public view. In order to see them, you have to go to the "Group Memberships" tab in the user control panel. Then you have to select the group, and click join group. Doing so means you agree to the terms:

On the backend, all it does is add the "Raw and Uncensored" user group to the user's additional user groups. This is a built in feature in vBulletin. So are social groups for that matter.

Garthilk, on 03 August 2011 - 10:51 PM, said:

Yeah Ben did a better job of explaining it.

Simply, it's a public group that people can join that applies additional permissions onto your primary usergroup. So you can do everything your primary usergroup permissions allow, plus all the things the public group also allows.

From what I understand, the Social Groups mod is capable of doing all of that; it's just sold under a different name.

[Ben Stillman]

TheMusicMan, on 04 August 2011 - 01:23 AM, said:

From what I understand, the Social Groups mod is capable of doing all of that; it's just sold under a different name.

As I understand the Social Groups mod, it doesn't do anything to the user's actual usergroups. It's simply a social group, like vBulletin's social groups. You could use them in the way I'm needing, but not very well. And I'm surely not paying for something that may or may not work. Looking at the demo, I'm leaning towards it won't work exactly as needed.

Imagine an entirely separate set of forum permissions assigned to a usergroup. Then users can choose to join that group for the added permissions. Like, maybe the censor/filter is on by default, but users can join this usergroup and for them the censor/filter is off. Or maybe  you have several newsletters. You can set it up so users can join the usergroup associated with the appropriate newsletter they're wanting to get. Then on the admin side, you simply send the newsletter to those in the usergroup. Works great for organizing things.

[rsyvarth]

Ben Stillman, on 04 August 2011 - 10:43 AM, said:

As I understand the Social Groups mod, it doesn't do anything to the user's actual usergroups. It's simply a social group, like vBulletin's social groups. You could use them in the way I'm needing, but not very well. And I'm surely not paying for something that may or may not work. Looking at the demo, I'm leaning towards it won't work exactly as needed.

Imagine an entirely separate set of forum permissions assigned to a usergroup. Then users can choose to join that group for the added permissions. Like, maybe the censor/filter is on by default, but users can join this usergroup and for them the censor/filter is off. Or maybe  you have several newsletters. You can set it up so users can join the usergroup associated with the appropriate newsletter they're wanting to get. Then on the admin side, you simply send the newsletter to those in the usergroup. Works great for organizing things.

Social Groups will probably not work for what you are wanting to do 100%. Although you could get all of the functionality that you are looking for with the app..

1. You can use the group's forum to hold your "censored" content.
2. You can send out mass PMs to everyone in the group with your newsletter.

But I would agree that a whole user group would probably be more convenient / useful in this situation.