Changing permissions is effecting sibling forums

[tcinc]

Possible bug here, and most certainly a problem. When I use the Quick Forum Permission Setup to change access for one specific group to one specific forum, that ends up changing permissions for other forums which are at the same level (not parent or child forums, but sub-forums at the same level as this one).

Any ideas?

I have the "Add Usergroup as Moderator" plugin installed though in this case I am not touching moderation powers so I would imagine it's unrelated.

TIA!

[Floris]

Yes, this is correct. If you change the parent, it inherits to the child.

To fix this, change the parent, and then set the exceptions in the child.

[tcinc]

Yes, this is correct. If you change the parent, it inherits to the child.

To fix this, change the parent, and then set the exceptions in the child.

Hum... did you read what I posted? I mentioned that permissions were begin changed for siblings, NOT child forums.

[Floris]

By default this should not happen. Perhaps in a buggy old vb version. But not in 3.6.7pl1.

[Floris]

Could you give me a step by step instructions on how you duplicate this? And could you include a screenshot of the result? So we can try to duplicate this on a 3.6.7pl1 fresh install and see if this is a bug?

[tcinc]

The version we are using is vBulletin 3.6.7 PL1

The other thing I think is that it might be related to the fact that this was once a child forum of others, and we have moved things around.

What is the best way, after making a permission change, to view at a glance ALL permissions for usergroups to specific forum, or all forums for for a spefic usergroup?

[Floris]

Admin CP > Forums & Mods > view permissions

[tcinc]

Why don't you slow down and read over what I'm writing carefully. What I want is a way to view ALL privileges at a glance. The option you mention requires that you match up each forum with each group. For us that's 30 forums time 5 groups = 150 individual privilege sets to review, one at a time

[Wayne Luke]

There is no way to view all permissions at a glance. There is simply too much information to display it all comfortably.

[tcinc]

There is no way to view all permissions at a glance. There is simply too much information to display it all comfortably.

Nonsense. A matrix with that information, with clear graphics to indicate the levels of permissions, would be extremely useful and easy to digest. I'd go one further: why not make the matrix *active* via AJAX so you could turn on or off a permission with a single click, across all forums and usergroups, from one single page.

People can take in a lot of information at once, what's hard is little bits of non-graphical information that you have to look up ONE BY ONE.