I was wondering if there is a way to bulk-update permissions of all forums at once.

This would save a lot of clicking (and time) for a large forum.

Thanks!

Currently, there is only one real way that might save time. If you have many forums that need to have their permissions changed to the same permission set, then what you could do is:

Modify the "New Forum Template" in the permission editor. At that point, you could bring up each forum, and then just choose the copy option to copy the New Forum Template permissions, and then update it.

Definitely need to spend more time in this area to make it easier to edit permissions on a larger scale.

OK, thanks. That's how I've done it in the past.

I admin my own machine so I can work with the database directly. Is there a list of field usage somewhere that I could use as a guide?

Thanks!

I need to add file-attach capability to all forums. Could I just:

There's no list, but you can just use

SHOW FIELDS from ubbt_FORUM_PERMISSIONS to get the list and most are fairly obvious as to what they do.

And yes, that query would work, but since it won't rebuild the permission set for logged in users you'll need to log out and then back in, in order to see the change on the forum itself.

Excellent. Thanks.

Is there a way to force a rebuild of the permission set for logged in users?

You'd need to purge the CACHED_PERMISSIONS table.

delete from ubbt_CACHED_PERMISSIONS

i believe clear cache purges the user Perms for all peeps

Awesome. Thanks!