I have a request that an existing forum has certain threads that are only visible/accessible to people in a specific user role. Is this built in functionality or do you have any suggestions how it could be implemented?
At a guess you'd probably have to have a seperate table that held the role id and a the thread id with a bool as to whether or not they had permission.
We have done something similar in MVC Forum but its based on role id, a permission type (Read, edit etc...) and a category. Doing it against a thread will be a lot more over head, and quite a bit trickier as threads are going to be created a lot more often than say a category and there will potentially be loads of them.
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I have a request that an existing forum has certain threads that are only visible/accessible to people in a specific user role. Is this built in functionality or do you have any suggestions how it could be implemented?
Bex
At a guess you'd probably have to have a seperate table that held the role id and a the thread id with a bool as to whether or not they had permission.
We have done something similar in MVC Forum but its based on role id, a permission type (Read, edit etc...) and a category. Doing it against a thread will be a lot more over head, and quite a bit trickier as threads are going to be created a lot more often than say a category and there will potentially be loads of them.
Thanks Lee.
I shall let you know if this actually gets done and how I go about it!
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