Question about private forums

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This is a question for the JForum Gurus:

Apollogies in advance, because I feel this is a common question and also feel I'm asking the wrong terms to the search engine.

So, it is possible to implement private forums in such way that users need to register and log in even before see categories, forums and messages? I want to have kind of private/confidential discussions. Don't want to be publicy available messages.

Thank you in advance.
Antonio.

[originally posted on jforum.net by Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is a question for the JForum Gurus:

Apollogies in advance, because I feel this is a common question and also feel I'm asking the wrong terms to the search engine.

So, it is possible to implement private forums in such way that users need to register and log in even before see categories, forums and messages? I want to have kind of private/confidential discussions. Don't want to be publicy available messages.

I actually solved this managing Web Container's Realms and Roles, but now I have 2 passwords to mantain (not big deal right now). Any way, I still would like to know the developer's avise about this.

Thank you in advace.
Antonio.
[originally posted on jforum.net by Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
I actually solved this managing Web Container's Realms and Roles, but now I have 2 passwords to mantain (not big deal right now). Any way, I still would like to know the developer's avise about this.

Nevermind, I've found how to do it with JForum.

Thanks.
Antonio.
[originally posted on jforum.net by Anonymous]

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Antonio, How did you that???
[originally posted on jforum.net by Anonymous]

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Take a look here:

How do I... Make a Forum or Category private for some Groups?

Rafael
[originally posted on jforum.net by Rafael Steil]

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It looks like that link has disappeared. Any suggestions on this? I have tried various things in the admin and I can't make it work some how.

[originally posted on jforum.net by Anonymous]

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The link it's working for me.

Rafael
[originally posted on jforum.net by Rafael Steil]

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When I go to that link, I get:

You dont have permissions to view this page.

You have to be a member of all the following groups to access this page. If this is incorrect please contact your administrator.

[originally posted on jforum.net by Anonymous]

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Ah, I think I figured something out. Remove all groups from the Anonymous user. Then no forums list for anon. Is that the right way to do this?

[originally posted on jforum.net by Anonymous]

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You are right, but you have also to hide "members list" in header.htm

<#if logged>
<img   /> 
<a id="latest2" class="mainmenu" /user/list")}" rel="nofollow">${I18n.getMessage("ForumBase.usersList")}</a>  
</#if>

and "who is online" in forum_list.htm

<#if logged>
<table class="forumline"    border="0">
 .
 .
 .
 </table>
</#if>

@Rafael Steil, maybe an option later ... ?
[originally posted on jforum.net by redhand]