I have my board setup so that new users that register get put in a group that has no read access. After this then I edit them and put them in the forums they need to be. I have a lot of different forum moderators. Is there a way that they could scan ffor the new users and place thme in the groups they moderate. It would be onel less admin task.

Thaks in advance.

Greg

[This message was edited by J.C. on July 07, 2003 at 11:16 AM.]

Itcom-ilo:

Go:

Control Panel > Show/Edit Users > Choose the moderator you want to change > Click "Grant Admin Privs" on the next page.

Is that what you're looking to do?


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Ok yes that may work but does it give the Moderator the same rights ads the real Administrator. I am a little nervous about that. I have my new users login into a "dead area" and then me as the Administrator put them in the groups I have created. But it means that the moderators cannot put them in the group. I will give it a try.

Again thanks and I hope one day I may have an answer for you.

Greg

Itcom-ilo,

You can change the config setting "Allow Moderators to Edit Users", to let moderators edit those groups for new users. Moderators won't be able to grant permissions they don't have, however, so they can only add people to groups of which they themselves are a member.

That might be a preferable solution.

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Hi thanks for the reply. The ideal thing for me is to have a group for all new users like login.
Then have my moderators could create the users. Login in as moderators, go to a user that is in the "login group" and make them part of the moderators group. I need to be able to keep the moderators seperate, but do not want users to be able to enter the board until they have been screened. The way I have it now is that they go to one area and just see an info forum, read only. Almost forgot, do not want them to be Admins.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Greg

do anyone know of a way to let users move threads of user they moderate and to let moderators login as a user to check what the users see.

sorry, I meant does anyone know of a way to let moderators move threads that a user has posted

Moderators cannot "become the user". Only admins can.

But moderators can move threads (in any of the forums that they moderate - so assign them to forums). <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />

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How can Moderators or Admin move threads ? I would like to do so, but as a moderator and/or Admin, I don't see a "move a thread" option in the Admin panel. Only keep, close, delete,...etc.

also, for Digest, my UBB.threads interface only gives a "subscribe" instead of "eMail weekly digest, daily digest, and immediate notification" options, are these available to UBB.threads ?

And right now, we have troubles getting receiving anything for those clicked "subscribed", our technical staff is trying to fix it.

You may wish to check out the Admin Guide for Threads as a good starting point in basic functionality. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/wink.gif" />
http://www.infopop.com/support/ubbthreads/UBBTadmin.html

To move a thread - simply click the 'Edit' button next to the thread you want to move. Then you'll see all sorts of edit options for it.

Here's the documentation that would help you:
http://www.infopop.com/support/ubbthreads/UBBTadmin.html#_Toc40069074

Threads offers 2 ways to mail posts. Users can get email replies to threads that they have added to their favorites. They need to enable the option in the email prefs of My Home. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />

Subscriptions go out however long you determine. The user does not have an option. But in order for this to work - you must configure a cron job to run the task. Most people set this up nightly (thus the susscritpions are daily). But it could be weekly etc.... whatever you setup.

If it's not working - I'd guess that you didn't setup a cron job on your server to run the subscriptions.php script nightly. The server must trigger this process to send out the emails. This is what I woudl check first.

Here's more info on the email options:
http://www.infopop.com/support/ubbthreads/UBBTadmin.html#_Toc40069086

And resources on setting up the Cron Task on your server:
http://www.ubbcentral.com/resources/cron.html

Hope that helps. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />

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Hi, Josh...noticed this thread and realized a question I was going to post is closely related.

EIDT EDIT: although I had thought email notifications only worked for favorite THREADS, I just noticed that one of the links you provide says they also work for favorite FORUMS...if this is true, it may solve the problem below...I'm going to try it now...EDIT EDIT

Can we set things up so that there is a frequent cron job for moderators, or at least some moderators, so they are notified relatively rapidly that there are new posts in their forums? For now, we want this particularly for a forum where people will pose questions to authors of a new report, and we want the moderator to direct the questions to the right person for a response.

So that the turnaround is fairly quick when a questions are posed, but to avoid all the authors having to monitor the board frequently, we would want a cron job that would notify the moderator by email, who could then forward each post to the right person.

Anyway, can we set up a cron job that way, perhaps specifying for which forums it was done? ...but have this done independently of the regular (daily more or less) subscriptions by users...?

By the way, we're on an infopop shared hosting site, which I see may affect the availability of cron jobs. The threads instructions on cron jobs only discuss daily user subscriptions and threads expiration, so maybe it would be difficult to set up a specialized job of the type I am describing.

If so, would there be any other way to accomplish our purpose, i.e., to have moderators emailed about new posting relatively rapidly?

Thanks - Tony

OK...can't edit my previous post because it has taken me more than 30 minutes to determine that the link that says that you can get email notifications of posts in favorite threads and forums seems to be wrong about the FORUMS. Wish it were right, because it would solve my problem above!!! Tony

If you subscribe to a forum (My Home -> Subscribe / Unsubscribe ...), and a cron task has been set up to run cron/php/subscriptions.php or cron/perl/subscriptions.pl, then posts in that forum will be emailed to you each time the cron task runs.

Hi, and yes...I understand that...but I am wondering if there is any way to set things up for some forums so that the moderators can get more frequent emails of posts to their particular forums than ordinary subscribers get...

So let's say that, as usual, a nightly cron task is run for ordinary users' subscription. Can I set up a different, more frequent task for certain moderators who we want notified rapidly of posts in their forums? So this wouldn't be the usual subscription cron task, but a separate, faster one for certain moderators specified by the administrator.

Any way to do it, either by a special crom task or by modifying something so that emails come whenever something is posted in specific forums (or maybe just whenever a new topic is started in them)?

Thanks - Tony

Not currently - the cron job for subscriptions could be run more frequently though.

I'm not sure if there's been any hacks or modifications to accomplish this at threadsdev.com or not. I know it's been requested before though.

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ah...I was afraid of that, Josh, but thanks - Tony

(I may post the question at threadsdev, but I don't think the chances are great...just trying to make it easier on moderators and others who are pressed for time...)