Forum and Forum Group Permissions

There are five types of forum users:

• No Access – This user has no access to forum posts.
  
  
• Readers – This user can read and rate posts, they cannot create posts, or reply to posts.
  
  
• Contributors – This user can create posts, respond to posts, rate posts, and use the voting controls
  
  
• Moderators – This user can approve topics and posts.
  
  
• Administrators – This user can complete all management tasks, including, creating new topics and assigning permissions.
  

By default, when Social Squared is first installed, only two types of users are configured:

• Administrators – that is those who are mapped at the site level, to the Full Control permission level.
  
  
• Contributors – All users who have access to a site, are allowed to create posts, respond to posts, rate posts, and use the voting controls for any forum group or forum that is displayed using the Forum Web Part.
  

You can override the default permissions at both:

• Forum Group
  
  
• Forum
  

If a user attempts to access a forum that they do not have permissions to, an access denied message will be displayed.

Managing Forum Group Permissions

First navigate to any site in a site collection where the Social Squared Forums collection feature is activated, and where you have configured the site with the connection string to the Social Squared database where information about the new Forum Group or Forum are to be stored.

To manage the permissions of a forum group, complete the following steps:

1. Click Settings , and then click Site Settings.
   
   
2. On the Site Settings page, under Social Squared Forum, click Forum Groups.
   
   
3. To the right of the forum you wish to configure permissions, click Edit.
   
   The Edit forum group page is displayed.
   
   This page allows you to configure the following permission related settings:
   
   
   

• No Permissions. You can configure No Permissions for each user means they cannot gain access to the Forum Group in question. Note that if the user is sent a link to a specific forum, the user will be able to see the forum in question. To avoid this, set the Deny permission on the forum in question in addition to the forum group.
  
  
  
  
• Read Post permission. Members of this group cannot create posts, or reply to posts. Users with this permission will only be able to read the posts as well as rate them
  
  
• Moderate Post permission. Members of this group can approve topics and posts. You can also, allow posts to appear before moderation.
  
  
• Administrate Forums permission. Members of this forum group can administrate forums. They can configure users and groups to the Read Post permission, as well as, Moderate Post and other Administrate Forum permissions.
  
  
• Propagate All permissions. When this check box is selected the permission settings to the forum group is propagated to all forums in this forum group.
  

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Managing Forum Permissions

As well as setting Forum Groups permissions, permissions can be set on a forum. This will override the permission setting configured at the forum group level. This allows you to deny permissions to the forum for specific users, set who can just read the forum, as well as who can moderate or administrate the forum.

To manage the permissions of a forum, complete the following steps:

1. First navigate to any site in a site collection where the Social Squared Forums collection feature is activated, and where you have configured the site with the connection string to the Social Squared database where information about the new Forum Group or Forum are to be stored.
   
   
2. Click Settings , and then click Site Settings.
   
   
3. On the Site Settings page, under Social Squared Forum, click Forum Groups.
   
   
4. On the Forum Groups page, to the right of the forum group which contains your forum, click View Forums to display the Forums [ forum group name ] page.
   
   
5. For the forum you wish to configure permissions, click Edit.
   
   The Edit forum group page is displayed.
   
   
   
   This page allows you to configure the following permission related settings:
   
   
   

• No Permissions. You can configure No Permissions for each user, this means they cannot gain access to the forum in question.
  
  
• Read Post permission. Members of this group cannot create posts, or reply to posts. Users with this permission will only be able to read the posts and rate them
  
  
• Moderate Post permission. Members of this group can approve topics and posts. You can also choose to allow posts to appear before moderation.
  
  
• Administrate Forums permission. Members of this group can administrate forums. They can add Read Posts permission users and groups, moderators and other
  administrators.
  

If you have any questions related to this documentation or the Social Squared product, please contact Lightning Tools by clicking Submit Support Ticket on Lightning Tools web site.

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