Question Multiple forum access levels. Please help

Hello,

I am having an issue developing a gaming website for a client. My client has requested that the forums have 3 access levels. Registered Users, Members, Officers. The idea here is for friends of this online gaming group to be able to post in a Public Forum, while Members of the online group can post in Public AND Members only section. The Officers of the online gaming group also need their own forums with access to all of the other forums as well.

I thought this would be simple enough with Kunena. Create the forums, set public access levels to the appropriate group, include child groups NO. Ive tried both ways; YES and NO. I cant seem to get it to work no matter what I do. I am using CB Free version and everything else is working great.

As a note, I went into PHPmyadmin and edited the name (not value) of the default Joomla groups. Author to Member and Editor to Officer. I do not have an article submission link so these should serve my needs fine.

Here is an overview of what I am trying to accomplish.

Registered - Public Forums
Members (Authors Group) - Public Forums & Members Forums
Officer (Editors Group) - Public Forums & Members Forums & Officer Forums.

Any help on this would be much appreciated as this is the final step before I can present the work to my client.

Thank you

Update: Ok I seem to have this working now. It was done exactly as I stated how I thought it should be done, however there is a catch.

Forums are created and set up as they should be. No need for editing there anymore. Very simple and straight forward. However when you give a user new a new access level, the changes do not take place... UNTIL you go into the Kunena component configuration and hit Save on any of the menus. This seems to grab the new permissions and display them properly.

While this isnt terrible, it makes it feel unprofessional to the client. They would have to give a new user permissions and then go into Kunena and hit save on a menu item... an odd extra step, but it works.

There may be an update cycle that I am not aware of and this would happen on its own over time perhaps, however hitting save forces the new access level to be applied immediately.

Update:

It does not seem possible to do this. What I need is an option to enable PARENT groups to restrict access in this format.

Is this possible some how?

Kunena caches user access information for a while. So you either need to sleep over night or admin needs to visit Kunena backend and sync up users.

I hope I get some time to make it automatic, but I'm buried on tasks which needs to be done yesterday.