Forum doesn't show information inserted directly into DB

[phpusher]

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I just added a bunch of ranks to my forum, to assign each group its own rank. I did that by directly inserting into the database, since there are a lot of groups and the table looked really easy.
But now I don't see the new ranks in the forum. I already cleared my cache, that didn't help (would have surprised me if it did). In the ACP, the rank is set for every group and if I manually switch back to the default rank and then back to the group rank, I can see that, and only that rank in the forum.

Is there a possibility to get the forum to notice, that each group has a rank now? What else does the ACP do, when changing the rank, besides inserting into the database?

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[phpusher]

Okay, of course I find the answer right after I gave up and posted here
It's not enough to set the rank in the groups table, it has to be set in the users table, too.
For anybody that is interested in this (I doubt it ):

I chose the same rank_id as group_id, as this makes things much easier. So adding the ranks is easiest with CSV import in phpmyadmin. There has to be a rank for every manually created group, or else you have to edit the WHERE condition. Then for the groups table, use this command:

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UPDATE phpbb_groups SET group_rank=group_id WHERE group_id>7;

This gives every group its own rank.
Then add the rank to the users table:

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UPDATE phpbb_users SET user_rank=group_id WHERE group_id>7;

Pretty self-explanatory I guess - not much different from the line above.