doofus wrote:Hello,
doofus wrote:
First of all: Thank you to the development team for producing jforum. Truly excellent work.
doofus wrote:
a) Secure group-based forums - users will be placed into groups, and *only* members of those groups (and admins) should be allowed to view forums/exchange files assigned to that group. This should not interfere with the ability to concurrently host public forum areas.
doofus wrote:
b) New users need to be able to assign themselves to pre-existing groups (once) but require admins to transfer them between groups after that.
(Otherwise users can violate the restrictions imposed in a).
doofus wrote:
c) More structure to the forum hierarchy: At present admins can add Forums to the Index, and categories to the forums. We require the ability to have Forums within categories, and categories within forums. (I suspect this makes the ORM issue complicated...).
doofus wrote:
d) As the university operates on an annual/bi-annual cycle, the ability to dump all users out of a group (and preferably all users out of groups of groups), is necessary once or twice a year. Forums associated with these groups need to be cleared of all posts and uploaded files. It would be best it if was optionally possible to remove these members from the forum entirely at these points.
doofus wrote:
Very interested to hear what others think. Are these extensions of sufficient interest to warrnt inclusion in the jforum core? Should they be plugins? Is anybody interested in these features at all?
doofus wrote:
PS. A feature I liked from another custom developed forum was the colour coded hits index. See
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-threads.cfm?f=82&g=54
as an example. The whirlpool forum is *extremely* busy, and having the colour code makes it much easier when scanning the list to choose which (of the many similar) topics to dive into.
doofus wrote:
a) Secure group-based forums - users will be placed into groups, and *only* members of those groups (and admins) should be allowed to view forums/exchange files assigned to that group. This should not interfere with the ability to concurrently host public forum areas.
This is already possible. You can create as many groups as you want and set permissions to these groups, just like you said.
doofus wrote:
c) More structure to the forum hierarchy: At present admins can add Forums to the Index, and categories to the forums. We require the ability to have Forums within categories, and categories within forums. (I suspect this makes the ORM issue complicated...).
I didn't understand this one. JForum's structure is "Category -> set of Forums" (A category may have any number of forums).
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