Solved Kunena 3: Category (and Section) permission: Why do some but not all settings have multiple selection?

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Let's say you have a category in your forum called "General/Locked Forum" and you've set this category with Moderated = Yes. You do that with the Category Manager facility.

Let's say that you want to assign a user account to be a moderator of this category. See the following image that shows you what you need to use in the User Manager facility.


If you want to assign a user account "moderate" several categories then you can make a multiple-choice assignment from the available categories.

To assign a user as a global moderator, use the same approach (Kunena User Manager, with Is Moderator = Yes) but choose, instead, "Global Moderator" instead of choosing specific categories. Global moderators have one other privilege that category moderators do not have. Global moderators can ban users (but they cannot ban other moderators and they cannot ban administrators).

It's really that simple. Do you understand now?


(Memo to self: It should only take me about 4 hours to produce a 3-minute training video on this subject ... :whistle: ... if I can find a spare 4 hours, that is)

Hi sozzled,

Many thanks for that reply - very useful information on Moderators (categorty and Global) and how to set them up.

sozzled wrote: One reason that you may need a Joomla ACL group for moderators is if you have a forum category where you want you moderators to discuss things among themselves.

Yes that is exactly what I would like.

sozzled wrote: The problem is that if you don't understand what are the key differences between Joomla ACLs and how you assign forum moderators, it is not very helpful having the discussion about "why do some, but not all, settings have multiple selection in connection with category access" when you insist that you seem not to understand that you do not need Joomla ACLs for your moderators.

I think that there is a misunderstanding, I've not explained myself, so apologies for that.

When I said "why do some, but not all, settings have multiple selection in connection with category access" I was not talking about moderators, I was talking about:

Components | Kunena Forum | Category Manager (Select section or category) | Category Permissions

Where you set the Viewing, Posting, and Replying settings for User Groups, i.e. nothing to do with moderators.

I was just asking why in the Viewing section you cannot select multiple User Groups by holding Ctrl or Shift buttons, as you can for the Posting, and Replying settings.

I hope that this makes sense now.

Kind Regards,

Privateer wrote: I was just asking why in the Viewing section you cannot select multiple User Groups by holding Ctrl or Shift buttons, as you can for the Posting, and Replying settings.

I gave the answer in msg #2:

sozzled wrote: ... there is no need to select multiple categories for the purposes of viewing a category.

Your response, in msg #3, gave me the impression that you were unwilling to accept this answer. I gathered - putting this discussion together with another long discussion we've had on a related matter - there was more than merely "thinking aloud" about the whys and wherefores of forum moderation. Furthermore, because we're really only talking hypothetically - you don't have any members - how could we be sure that you understand how to apply this advice? How can we be sure that, after researching information for you and guiding you about how to assign forum moderators, you referred (in msg #5) to an out-of-date article in the Wiki - something I had not mentioned - giving me the impression that our advice had not "sunk in"?

I hope that you clearly understand what you have to do.

Privateer wrote: I've read the documentation How to add a moderator , but there's not much there and it is in the category "Articles that could be improved".

The article you refer to is obsolete and I have replaced it with Forum moderators