User roles

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Hi everybody,
I'm new in the jforum community and i wood like to integrate it with another application. I began learning jforum but istill not understanding something:
*firstly: what are roles and how can I add new custom roles.
*secondly: what is the difference between role_type column and role_value column in both jforum_roles and jforum_role_values.
*thirdly can I set user roles permission directly without adding the user to a goup.

I tried to find documentation about those things and tried to understand the code but I still not understand the concept of role and permission in jforum.
Could any body help on that please.

[originally posted on jforum.net by napilioni]

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1) Each role represents a security key - something an user can or cannot do. You create new roles by editing the file WEB-INF/config/permissions.xml

2) role_type equals 1 means the user can do the thing specified by the role; equals 0, it can't. role_value contains a helper value - for example, for forum id or category id.

role_type will not exist anymore in starting from JForum 2.1.7

3) No, you can't.

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

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napilioni wrote:Hi everybody,
I'm new in the jforum community and i wood like to integrate it with another application. I began learning jforum but istill not understanding something:
*firstly: what are roles and how can I add new custom roles.
*secondly: what is the difference between role_type column and role_value column in both jforum_roles and jforum_role_values.
*thirdly can I set user roles permission directly without adding the user to a goup.

I tried to find documentation about those things and tried to understand the code but I still not understand the concept of role and permission in jforum.
Could any body help on that please.

good
[originally posted on jforum.net by jimmy_yang]

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jimmy_yang wrote:

napilioni wrote:Hi everybody,
I'm new in the jforum community and i wood like to integrate it with another application. I began learning jforum but istill not understanding something:
*firstly: what are roles and how can I add new custom roles.
*secondly: what is the difference between role_type column and role_value column in both jforum_roles and jforum_role_values.
*thirdly can I set user roles permission directly without adding the user to a goup.

I tried to find documentation about those things and tried to understand the code but I still not understand the concept of role and permission in jforum.
Could any body help on that please.

good

bad
[originally posted on jforum.net by jimmy_yang]