Category Admins (Sub-forum Moderators/Admins)
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Hi,
I am thinking of migrating my smf forum to nodebb.
Currently, i have my smf set up to allow my sub-forum moderators (in nodebb, i assume is category moderators) to help administer the sub-forum.
The sub-forums i have set up is actually restricted access, and my sub-forum moderators will be given the rights to allow users into their sub-forums.
In nodebb, falling short of giving the sub-forum (category moderators) administration rights, is it possible for me to have a similar forum structure?
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@Silvina Duplicate request of gh#1299.
Currently group moderator in NodeBB can't access the ACP, so changing group permissions etc isn't something that would be possible without them being an admin. Which would give them access to other sections of the site control panel. (Not advised)
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Or bump this, or the many other threads asking for subforums
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@Silvina said:
so in nodebb terms, the category moderators and/or category admins can be given access control to manage the category
Yes.
including who to allow/disallow into that category.
No.
To elaborate on my last point, that would require giving someone global admin access in order to allow a group access to a category. You would then manually add members to that group that needed access to that category.
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Yeah, this is tricky -- having individual moderators manage whitelists (either by user or by group) is definitely not a typical use case for forums, much less subcategories.
As @a_5mith said, it's possible to do if every global moderator has access to the groups page, and can manage their own groups, but at this point, there's a lot more work that needs to be done before we can even approach doing something like this...
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Bump since subcategories are now on the books
