Topic: me again...

June 12th, 2006 02:52 PM mom2raielyse okay im setting up my board now...and i have forums that i have set on "built in group" only....and i have read and re-read the tutorial on user groups....but i cant see anything about the "built in group" setting.....what is that about and how to i add users to a forum with that setting??? hope i am making sense!! June 12th, 2006 03:32 PM Catchow Sorry but I appear to dimwitted again. Where are you seeing this about a built in group. On a new board do you really need to set up user groups? *goes off to look at control panel* http://s2.excoboard.com/exco/control/help/usergroups.html I still don't understand for sure what you are asking. Could you tell me where you saw the info you are referring to? The heat has cooked my brain. (Edited by Catchow) June 12th, 2006 04:16 PM mom2raielyse its under forum administration and when you click on "edit" it gives you an option to have certain access to users in the access permission area....it has an "Authorized (Built-in group)" and the reason for this is because we are moving from another server to here and we have memebers already and only certain ones are allowed in those forums from our other board June 12th, 2006 04:25 PM BluAngelGrrl The authorized users group allows those in that group to see the whole board, same as a moderator would, except they have no moderating capablities. What you would need to do, is to set up a brand new usergroup for those people coming from your board, and then go through the forums and give them the Read/Post permissions. You'll have to do that with each section in the forum edit areas. Remember, authorized can also see in the admin area, that is why you want to set up a seperately named usergrop for those from the other board you are migrating from. June 12th, 2006 04:31 PM mom2raielyse ohhh i get it now!! June 12th, 2006 11:36 PM BluAngelGrrl Ok...I thought you might. You set up the usergroup, then add the people, then I'd go back and do the edits to get them into the areas you want them to access that regular members are not allowed. Good luck. June 13th, 2006 12:04 AM mom2raielyse thanks! got it totally figured out!! hehe