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*MattLocke* · Guest Joined: Posts: Country: Location:

Hiya,

Is it possible to have the forum as private, so basically it is invite only because we are moving to here from another site and dont want certain users following.

Thanks,

Matt

BoardBoss · Posted: 1/7/2010 7:12:58 PM Post subject: Re: Forum registration

Hi!

You can do this with permissions. Create a usergroup and grant all permissions of the forum you want to be private to this usergroup. This way, registered users will not be able to do anything unless you add them to this usergroup.

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*Guest* · Guest Joined: Posts: Country: Location:

Thanks for the prompt reply,

So there is no actually way to suspend registration? Ideally we would like it so the only way to become registered is if we invite users to do so.

Matt

BoardBoss · Posted: 1/7/2010 8:00:58 PM Post subject: Re: Forum registration

No, we do not have anything like invitation. If this is just about keeping some people away from your forum, the usergroup thing will work. People will be able to register but they will not be able to read / post anything, which is practically the same as not beeing registered

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*Guest* · Guest Joined: Posts: Country: Location:

Hiya,

Thanks again, I'm officially puttin in a feature request here for invite only to be available for forums Also my co owner has asked what does Ph1, Ph2 up to Ph8 in template editor, do exactly?

Thanks Again

BoardBoss · Posted: 1/7/2010 8:33:20 PM Post subject: Re: Forum registration

The PH things are placeholders. You can put any kind of HTML code in there which can than be used anywhere in your templates.

I will put the feature request on our list
The only way I can think of a 'invite mechanism' is to create registration links that are good for one registration only. So you would have to go to your admin section, create invitation links and send them to the people you want to invite.

Would this meet your requirements? Please also understand that it it takes some time to implement new features

Best Regards
BoardBoss

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*Guest* · Guest Joined: Posts: Country: Location:

Yeah, if you could also throw in an option to disable registration normally, it would be perfect. Thankyou, and we are prepared to wait for the feature, hopefully not too long though

Matt