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The Snide Sniper
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Unlisted topics

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I have kind of a weird thing that I want to do on my forum. I'm planning a scavenger hunt sort of event on my forum for April Fools' Day, and I want to have topics that users can read and post in, but NOT see listed anywhere. I am okay with creating a special forum to put these in. However, I can't figure out a way to configure the permissions to allow this. I've tried granting "read forum" but withholding "see topics", but it appears "read forum" also implies permission to see the list of topics.

Is there any way to do this in vanilla phpBB?
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Re: Unlisted topics

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Yes

Create a new forum but do not copy permissions

Then set the permissions for any group you wish to view it as below

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(I think thats everything you need covered, but check and check again to be sure)

Then give the administrator group full permissions for that forum

The forum will not appear for anyone except administrators, but if you give the relevant group member the url of the forum they will be able to see all of the topics, or just give them the topic url if you want to restrict them to one topic at a time.

(tested locally, works as expected)
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Re: Unlisted topics

Post by The Snide Sniper »

That works pretty well, and I'll probably use that, although it'd be nice if it just didn't allow users to get a list of topics in the forum, even with a link.
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Re: Unlisted topics

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If you only give the link to a topic, that is all they will be able to see
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