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Can this forum software work on a membership site?
Hi,

Can this forum software work on a membership site?

I need a public forum and a membersonly forum. I have an online car club with 3,000 paid members and 4,500 forum users. I imported UBB6 into a test forum I am evaluating, but am not sure how to restrict access to half of the forum categories to membersonly.

Is there a way to configure it this way? Are any other webmasters doing this with gossamer?

Thanks

Mike

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Michael J. Challis - CRUZN8R - PT Cruiser Club - http://www.ptcruiserclub.org

http://www.ptcruiserclub.org/forum
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Re: [CRUZN8R] Can this forum software work on a membership site? In reply to
You would need to set up a group 'members', and put all your members into that group. Then you can setup access restrictions to certain forums to allow only members of the special 'members' group to read/post.

BTW: You can have as many different groups as you like, all with different permissions (on a per forum basis). The permission system of GForum is very flexible.

Ivan
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Iyengar Yoga Resources / GT Plugins
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Re: [yogi] Can this forum software work on a membership site? In reply to
Thanks, but I am not able to add a group "Members" , I get this error: Grouping: Add Record Failed



  • Failed to execute query: 'INSERT INTO gforum_Grouping (group_name,group_users,group_id) VALUES (?,?,NULL)' Reason: Unknown column 'group_users' in 'field list'


Wonder what could be wrong?



Thanks



Mike


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Michael J. Challis - CRUZN8R - PT Cruiser Club - http://www.ptcruiserclub.org

http://www.ptcruiserclub.org/forum
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Re: [CRUZN8R] Can this forum software work on a membership site? In reply to
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/...i?post=213396#213396
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Re: [Paul] Can this forum software work on a membership site? In reply to
Thanks Paul, I found it, that updated file fixed it.

It is a little strange that this fix was not included in the download if the fix came out six months ago.



Mike

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Michael J. Challis - CRUZN8R - PT Cruiser Club - http://www.ptcruiserclub.org

http://www.ptcruiserclub.org/forum