Ok, the private conferencing feature has been pretty much mapped on on how it will work. This is really going to change the way several things work.
Currently upon board creation you choose who can post on it, Admins only, Admins and moderators, or admins, moderators and users. This is no longer going to be needed.
Secondly, right now there are security levels in the forums. These are no longer going to be used. This might cause a bit of a problem for users that have taken quite a bit of time to create various security levels and such but in the long run, the new system will be much more flexible.
The reason these will be no longer needed is each board can be set to allow read only, allow read and write for certain groups. Privileges will be assigned to groups, and you can assign a maximum of 60 groups per privilege field. Each user will be assigned to any number of groups up to a maximum of 60.
There will be 4 default groups. Guests (users who have not logged in), Users (Users who have logged in), Moderators and Administrators. By default when the tables are updated they will be set to allow read and write by the Guest group and the Users group (Moderators and Admins are members of the Users group by default).
So, this is just to let everyone know how it is looking so far. It should provide for a very flexible system. If a user is in a group that does not have read privileges for a certain board then they will not be able to see that board.
Originally it was planned to have a deny from groups option, but after looking into this further this would have made the program much more complex and in doing so would have increased the server resources used.
This is just in the beginning stages and there may be a few unexpected hurdles to overcome, but this is the plan thus far. I posted this message here in case anyone has any questions and would like to discuss it here.
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Scream
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