Yeah I was thinking about it since I know php/sql, but I wont ask others to do what I myself could try and do, and since I simply dont have the time to sit down in my spare time (maybe next year perhaps) and code I wont be trying it myself for a while. I am no expert tho meaning I would need some time to figure out how the system works in the first place. Im kinda itching to try starting on this since I really did like what I saw of punbb, guess I have to wish for 40hr days for x-mas 
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1 2005-11-30 23:06
Re: Users in 2 Groups? (36 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
2 2005-11-30 22:20
Re: Users in 2 Groups? (36 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
Yeah, thanks, got my answers and it seems like I have to stick with phpbb for the time beeing.
3 2005-11-30 16:44
Re: Users in 2 Groups? (36 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
Hi there Connorhd, and thanks for the reply.
I was in a hurry when I wrote my last post, it was not you or a moderator that I was referring to, it turns out it was just a regular user, and I'm sorry for that. I simply started a new post since what I wanted answered was really a bit more than the topic of this thread and I was to tired to delete my first one, didnt even think about it.
Ok, the biggest issue was the moderation-groups for me anyway, now, another question, will 1.3 allow moderators in a group to add members to its group or will it still only be done by an admin? I might have missunderstood the group-moderation in 1.3 tho, I understood it like you can assign certain members of a group to be moderators of that group, however, if I understand your last post correctly you can make more moderator groups instead (I havent tried to duplicate a moderator group in punbb so I dont know if that group will get moderation priveliges, thats why I'm asking this and it might seem a bit thick of me)?
Again, thanks for the prompt replies this far, the group issue is really the only thing I dont like about punbb, and its just to bad for me :) that that seems to be the only reason why I cant change to punbb since there are lots of things I really dont like about phpbb. Theres a saying "you cant have anything" and well thats just to bad :) Punbb still has some great features and I cant do anything else than wish you guys good luck in developing it further.
4 2005-11-30 14:04
Re: Users in 2 Groups? (36 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
uhm, this wasnt my question ... this was just a comment, however i started a thread about it but that one got closed ... with some rather lame comments from a mod.
Anyway... Under admin-rights you can search for users, and then when clicking the user you can administrate the user. Here you can assign what forums this moderator should moderate. So far, so good. Problem is, lets say I've got two seperate hidden forums, both of these should have their own moderator, this moderator should not have access to the other hidden forum. The little testing I've done shows this is hard to do with punbb, if I make both a moderator they will automatically be able to read the others forums, and they can moderate their own. I dont want this, and my users dont want this. I also tested this by removing access to moderators to group A, but at the same time in userconfig saying user X should moderate group Y, this didnt work ofc since this user couldnt access the forum he was supposed to moderate (it didnt show up for that user).
If I understood this correctly, that part would be "fixed" in 1.3, and that combined with the possibility to assign users to more groups is really all thats needed for me, since then my members can access several hidden forums.
If I with the current system have to make several moderator groups, and special groups for every user belonging to several forums it will be unmanageable (At least with several groups and several hidden forums). My forums are for teams that have their own forums, ofc they dont want players and captains from other teams looking into their forums. A toggle box-for checking or unchecking all the checkboxes for a group wouldnt be to bad either, perhaps even one for removing all the checks....
Sat around for a while yesterday looking at an install of these forums and I really got my hopes up, and then I started playing around with the user-system and well that doesnt work for me, but I got to say, looks like an awesome forum-package you have created.
5 2005-11-30 04:41
Topic: Groups in 1.3 (5 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)
Hi there, I've searched a bit but couldnt find anything specific about this (I'm probably wrong tho, usually am )
Anyway, will it be possible to be member of several groups in 1.3, or will it be like in 1.2.x? I saw the interview and read about the moderation part set inside a group (which is one thing that would suit me perfectly, but the other part is the multiple-group membership, didnt see anything about that).
I currently run a site using phpBB, but I'm not really happy with that. punBB seems so much easier, not bloated and .. well, just plain better except for the group thing.
With 1.2.x, if I have a hidden forum that only a specific group can access, I need to make one group for that. However I cant make one moderator for just this forum it seems (the moderator will have access to all other hidden forums also. I will have to make a new moderator group for for only this one forum perhaps (?)). Also, if I have two hidden forums, and some members have access to both, I would need 3 groups for that. One for the first forum, one for the other, and one for those who need access to both. My current site with phpBB has 6 hidden forums and 10 or so groups :s This would be impossible to administrate in punBB if I understand the 1.2 group-system correctly (played around with an install for a while, and seems like this is the only way).
Sorry for all that blabber, but will this also be "fixed" in 1.3?
6 2005-11-30 04:10
Re: Users in 2 Groups? (36 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
*sigh*
PunBB really did look amazing untill I started looking into the group-system. I run a site with phpbb and have:
- several groups where some groups give access to hidden forums
and
- where some members belong to several groups
and
- where some moderators only moderate their specific forum dont have access to others etc ....
This will be completely hopeless to administrate in punbb since it litterally would be admin-hell if I did understand the punbb-group system correctly 
Hopefully this is something that will be "fixed" in v.1.3 since the simplicity and ease of this board looks amazing except for this one thing (for me that is).
Edit: ohh, read the interview, maybe 1.3 will be exactly what I'm looking for. Moderation rights set inside the group, however it said nothing about being able to be a member of several groups (hopefully that will be possible). Not saying awesome yet, but "time will show" (no, not "time will tell" ).