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Hi, Objective: To create an environment where a particular sub-forum has to be accessed only by 2 users (user 1 & user 2). I see two options now. Option 1: Password protect forum. > Issue: Anyone with password can access it. Query: Is it possible for user 1 to access it via group permission (does no...

Ok, but any workaround to achieve this with the basic setup? Permissions only operate at the forum level, so, no. Ok, thanks for your assistance otherwise i would have spent days to keep trying and finally know this is not possible. :) -- @3Di & John connor, thanks for your suggestions and assuranc...

I'm not sure this is the right software to use for what you want. It's discussion software, designed for multiple people to talk about multiple things in the same place. You're trying to unravel that and make it one on one chats. Why can't those people just PM or email each other? Forum based discu...

Permissions only operate at the forum level, so, no. Ok, but any workaround to achieve this with the basic setup? Currently my only option is to create 1 forum and 3 sub-forums and each sub-forum has 5-10 sub-sub-forums making it a total of 15-30 sub forums and create user groups and allocate indiv...

You should not use user permissions for this. Use groups, even if the group has only one member. Ah, i never thought about this. Its a perfect one and sounds easy too as even non technical admins can make changes to members user group unlike group permissions which is slightly tricky. Also we can c...

Its not a medical forum, i just gave an example. I mentioned patient and doctor without thinking about HIPAA. People are anonymous and so are those who reply. Lets call it an Astrology forum where people provide private details like birth timings etc so only those who raise query to a specific astro...

I guess this is what you are looking for: https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/extension/readotherstopics/ Hi, thanks for your reply. Is this option not possible without an extension? Just trying to make this with basic phpbb settings so dont have to worry about extensions not getting updated with ne...

Hi, i have a query. Lets say we are trying to build a forum where users write personal & private queries like a doctor and patient discussion where only one particular doctor and one particular patient can view the posts (of-course admins can view to monitor quality discussion), is this possible wit...

I deleted the cache/production folder, browsed to the forum url, and hey! it works. Thanks a million. Rob Same magic worked for me too. The production folder missing brought back the admin page. Was initially shocked to see the admin page reporting error but now much relieved, thanks for posting th...

janus_zonstraal wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 10, 2018 9:41 pm

Try this method
viewtopic.php?f=556&t=2376856#convert3

Thanks so much for your reply.

Ok, will try this during this week and shall update.

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Yes, i too feel the same. Can you suggest a better hosting with the best data backup & tech support and also affordable?

Thanks.

Hi, Lately im receiving regular emails from siteground that i'm exceeding their daily quota though im in their highest plan "GoGeek", so i wish to know if we have an option to set Guest users to only read the topics on the forum but not its contents and deliver the contents only to registered users?...

Hi, thanks for all your replies. So can i assume from your replies that Cron being the top visited URL (as shown on the above image) close to double than the "viewtopic.php" is perfectly normal and not abnormal to be worried about? And i have set the "Email package size: 20", and wondering if this i...

the cron.php is called on every page view and handles different background tasks (like sending email, prune forums, clear caches ...) Thanks so much for your reply. Do we have an option to optimise cron or the forum in particular to reduce the number of total executions so the excess resource usage...