@PitaJ I was able to do it by giving the nav button a unique ID in the ID section and then just controlling the tooltip/button action in JS under the custom JS section. Surprisingly easy to do as it turns out.

I did create a test account but because the permission only says "Poll" it was unclear whether or not if it controlled participation or creation. But you've answered that. Looks like I'll have to figure out how to modify the plugin for a permission to control participation base on group. Thanks for the in depth answer.

We have our forum account set to manual activation but it's not obvious to the user that is the case, so we get people trying to login right after and being given the generic login unsuccessful message. Which leads them to trying to reset their password or checking for an activation email etc. When in reality the account needs to be activated.

How can I change that error message to include something like "Your account may need to be activated my an admin, please contact them through Discord"?

We're currently using this poll plugin but it does not offer the ability to run ranked polls. A ranked poll being something like "Pick your first, second and third choices" and then the options selected would be weighted accordingly in the final tally. Is there a way I can do that or will I have to dive into plugin development to make something like that possible? We're currently on NodeBB 12.2.2 if that makes a difference for your answers.

@baris Oh I think it might be! I'll have to take a look at it, thanks. Would that be in the 1.12.2 general release?

So we've got a forum that is organized into "countries" of sorts, where there is a specific person that controls each "country" (for context, this is tied into a game).

We want to allow each controlling person to have moderation rights over their respective sub-forum but I've realized that simply making them a moderator of a sub-forum also allows them to moderate any user that can view said forum. That includes too much moderation power over users for the application.

Is there a way for us to assign just post/sub forum moderation without including the user moderation portion (viewing user account info, etc.)?

I see in the permissions area I can set specific people to moderate a sub forum but that includes user moderation.

@jtsimoes unfortunately we want the restricted groups to still have view/comment access to posts with polls in them. I think my only solution will be to either find another poll plugin (which seems unlikely) or figure out how to modify the existing one to have more garnular permissions.

I did create a test account but because the permission only says "Poll" it was unclear whether or not if it controlled participation or creation. But you've answered that. Looks like I'll have to figure out how to modify the plugin for a permission to control participation base on group. Thanks for the in depth answer.

@jtsimoes I set them in a test category but it doesn't look like it worked when I used a test account put into a group that wasn't supposed to be able to use the poll, the account could still vote in it. I'll have to keep playing around with them. Does that permission restrict the creation of a poll or the ability to participate in one?

@Tom_Rade I'm not seeing that you are referring to, my privlages page looks like this:

and the corrisponding inspect element markup looks like this:

There is no reference to any poll permissions anywhere in either of those two areas. We're running NodeBB 1.10.2.

We currently use this poll plugin but we've found it doesn't have everything we need it to. What we are looking for is it to extend it and add:

• Group-based permissions (select groups that can and can't vote in the poll in the ACP)

• Weighted polls based on the group the user is part of. i.e. a person in group one would have their poll vote have a weight of 1, a person in group 2 would have a poll vote weight of 2 and so on. Configurable in the ACP.

That's it, I did tinker around with trying to do it myself but I don't know the plugin system well enough to do it effectively.

@PitaJ I was able to do it by giving the nav button a unique ID in the ID section and then just controlling the tooltip/button action in JS under the custom JS section. Surprisingly easy to do as it turns out.