Question User Groups, User Group Privileges, ACLs

currently no this is not possible in K1.5.11

ok kewl - thanks mate!
Much appreciated

Any idea it it will become a feature as that would be a truely usefull tool to have!

As I sometimes have to remind new members who post to this forum,

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Support category, where you posted your question, is intended to be used to address problems with the unmodified core Kunena software - not to ask how to change it or to discuss problems people might encounter with third-party software extensions - or to report defects that you are have found - not to ask questions about how to use the software normally or how to use Joomla normally. We give these support topics higher priority than other topics, particularly around the time when there is a new release of Kunena (as there was last week), in order to ensure that defects are not passed on to other users. I have merged this topic with a more appropriate one.We get many questions about of how to restrict categories of discussions to certain classes of users as this topic illustrates (and any quick search would also reveal). This has been answered several dozen times. Please read docs.kunena.com/index.php/Forum_Setup%2C...s_for_special_Groups . Everything that you need to know is contained in that tutorial.

No, it is not possible to password protect, or to restrict in any other way, a single thread. There is also no need to password protect a Kunena category, either. Access to your forum is based on Joomla user permissions. There is no intention, at this time, to restrict individual threads; only categories or sections can be restricted.

It is also not possible to segregate categories based on the classes of users that you have identified in your example - at least, not in Kunena 1.5. It is unlikely that this will be accomplished in K 1.6. The necessary security mechanisms don't natively exist in Joomla. You will need to wait until J! 1.6 or look into a third-party J! 1.5 extension.

I've searched on here so long (today) that my head is spinning. I haven't found what I'm looking for, but if I've just missed it, I apologise.

I've set up extra groups in Joomla (1.5.15) which aren't in the usual author/editor heirarchy. In fact they look like the picture in the attached file.

What I want is for everyone to have read access to all forums.
Registered users to also have write access to some forums, and print subscribers to have write access to all forums.

Can I do this in Kunena (1.5.11)?
Or, as I suspect, will I have to wait for Joomla and Kunena 1.6?

I'm also using Community Builder with the subscription plugin, but I can't see how that can restrict edit access to selected forums either

TIA
VtI

J1.5.15 and K1.5x do not yet support ACLs ( access control lists ) and that is what you are going to need for what you are trying to do but in J1.6 and K2.0 ( long way off) ACLs will be added so that restrictions can be better added to who can see and access each catagory of the forum.

Yeah, it looked a bit like that. Oh well, I can live with it I s'pose.

D'you have a sense of how far off J1.6 K2.0 will be? It kinda sounds like they're involved. Heck, even I've seen the J1.6 alpha...