Groups

Groups

Every user should belong to at least one group in JForum, but it's possible to belong to several groups. By default, every new user is added to the "General" group, which includes the "Anonymous" user. This setup is appropriate only for cases where everyone who can access the forum site is allowed to see all its contents, as well as to register and post. This might be OK for public forums, or for company forums behind a firewall. But if you need more fine-grained control, groups will be involved as well as controlling [Registration]s.

Group administration

Group administration is done in the Admin Panel -> Groups section, where you can Add, Edit, Delete and setup Permissions.

Add a new Group

Click in the "Insert new" button, and inform the ''Group Name'', its ''Parent Group'' and a ''Description''. ''Parent Group'' is destined for organization purposes only, and don't have any other major functionality.

After adding a new group, you must set the [Permissions] for it.

Deleting Groups

A group must be empty - e.g, there should not be any users associated to it - before it can be deleted.

To remove one or more groups, select them using the checkboxes available in the ''Delete'' column, and press the button ''Delete selected''.

Permissions

Each group has a set of permissions, which are reflected to every user who belongs to that group. You set up permissions for a group by clicking in the Permissions link. Group roles are not merged - in other words, a child group does not inherit the permissions of its parent group.

For more information about how to set up permissions in JForum, check out the [Permissions] section.