Question2Answer Q&A - Recent questions tagged permissions

Incorrect evaluation of voting permissions

Fri, 10 Jul 2020 18:24:29 +0000

On my forum I'm trying to configure the following voting permissions:

Upvote questions: all registered users
Upvote answers: registered users with at least 25 points
Downvote questions and answers: registered users with at least 50 points

However, the settings don't seem to work the way I expected. Instead, the downvote permissions apply to upvotes too. Is that intentional? (looks like a bug to me)

And how/where would I fix that?

Login required to view any content - 1.8.3

Wed, 25 Mar 2020 15:13:53 +0000

Hey folks,

I'm looking for an option to hide content from non-logged in users.

I checked these topics:

It seems to me it was possible to achieve desired behavior programmatically only.

Is it the same situation now? Any additional UI config was introduced since then?

how to use function function qa_admin_permit_options($widest, $narrowest, $doconfirms = true, $dopoints = true)

Thu, 20 Dec 2018 20:06:52 +0000

I am trying to use the function

qa_admin_permit_options($widest, $narrowest, $doconfirms = true, $dopoints = true)

in my code.

I tried

$permitoptions=qa_admin_permit_options(QA_PERMIT_ALL, QA_PERMIT_SUPERS, false, true);

It works well but when I click on the `registered users with enough points` it doesn't show the field to enter the amount of points.

Category wise access control

Tue, 18 Sep 2018 04:32:59 +0000

In my company there are few department like IT, Developer, Marketing, Commercial, Finance etc. What I need is to restrict departmental question within the users those are added to the department. Such as if a question is asked with "IT" category then the question is only visible to the users those have the permission to "IT" category.

N.B. I never got any answer from this forum earlier :(

How to create multiple admins?

Sat, 14 Apr 2018 15:44:04 +0000

I would like to know how can be possible to create 2,3,4 etc admins, plus can I manipulate points and level of accounts? Thanks you, your CMS is amazing, really appreciate you made it open for all of us.

How to let moderators assign bonus points to users?

Sun, 18 Feb 2018 09:04:40 +0000

In /qa-include/pages/user-profile.php you see that bonus points can only be assigned by admins. q2a 1.8.0

There is no option under /admin/permissions to change this, yet.

The hack you need so that moderators can assign bonus points:

1. Open /qa-include/pages/user-profile.php
2. Find line:
if ($loginlevel >= QA_USER_LEVEL_ADMIN && qa_clicked('dosetbonus')) {
3. Change it to:
if ($loginlevel >= QA_USER_LEVEL_MODERATOR && qa_clicked('dosetbonus')) {
4. Find line:
if ($loginlevel >= QA_USER_LEVEL_ADMIN) {
5. Change it to:
if ($loginlevel >= QA_USER_LEVEL_MODERATOR) {
6. Upload file to your server.

Now it works.

It would be great if the core could integrate such a permission.

Note: If you have plugins that change the user profile, make sure to reflect those changes there too.

Best practice for different user levels on multiple sites - but shared user database

Tue, 13 Feb 2018 07:27:54 +0000

The user database is shared over several q2a instances (A, B, C, D).

Goal:

- User 101 should become administrator of *only* forum A.

- User 102 should become administrator of *only* forum B.

- User 103 should become administrator of forums A, B and C.

As I can see, the central user database qa_users has one field "level" that obviously is valid over all instances.

So what is the best practice to have different levels for each instance?

Extended permissions/privileges

Thu, 13 Jul 2017 01:48:43 +0000

Trying to limit the users who shouldn't have permissions to move answers to comments some users should have permissions to do this (admins, moderators). I have located the area of code that would allow this in file qa_include\pages\question-post.php line 712 to 720. I have also figured out the permissions I would like

if ( (!QA_FINAL_EXTERNAL_USERS) && qa_opt('moderate_users') && ($level>=QA_USER_LEVEL_MODERATOR)) {

but I would like more control of this through the permissions tab of the admin control panel

Any suggestions ? Could this be added to 1.8

How does check user permission for flag a post?

Sat, 25 Mar 2017 14:06:13 +0000

I used below one. it's not working.
`$row = qa_post_get_full($postid);`
` qa_user_maximum_permit_error('permit_view_voters_flaggers',$row);`

how to maintain permission level for different types of users?

Fri, 17 Mar 2017 07:24:56 +0000

i saw `Permission level for different types of users:`

   define('QA_PERMIT_ALL', 150);

    define('QA_PERMIT_USERS', 120);

    define('QA_PERMIT_CONFIRMED', 110);

    define('QA_PERMIT_POINTS', 106);

    define('QA_PERMIT_POINTS_CONFIRMED', 104);

    define('QA_PERMIT_APPROVED', 103);

    define('QA_PERMIT_APPROVED_POINTS', 102);

    define('QA_PERMIT_EXPERTS', 100);

    define('QA_PERMIT_EDITORS', 70);

    define('QA_PERMIT_MODERATORS', 40);

    define('QA_PERMIT_ADMINS', 20);

    define('QA_PERMIT_SUPERS', 0);

when i do registration, it inserted `0` in `level` column in `users` table. which is conflicting the upper permission. which one is correct? or how i can manage permission for different types of users?

Is it possible to hide content for users who are not logged in?

Sun, 05 Mar 2017 03:07:45 +0000

I would like to know if there is possibility in admin or in any other way to hide forum content if the user is not registered (or logged in). One way would be maybe integration with wordpress and using wordpresss functions but I would like to know if there is some more generic solution. Thank you :)

Administration center - Permissions

Thu, 02 Feb 2017 13:42:58 +0000

Hello everyone i found one bug in "Administration center - Permissions"

see the pictures:

this page normal adm>permissions and i did login, but when i check and save this options,

"Viewing question pages: Registered users."

in other browser, this is happen:

i yet see the page, even without being connected in system.

how do i fix it?

How to limit access for some categories?

Mon, 30 Jan 2017 08:27:06 +0000

Example,

Only USER_IT permission is enable to see questions and answers from categorie IT

Changing Question Viewing Permission

Tue, 17 Jan 2017 23:49:35 +0000

I have changed the permissions to access the questions page to "Registered Users with email confirmed"; however, I am still able to view the questions page online without logging in as a registered user. How can I apply these changes so that unregistered users are not able to access the site?

Only moderators can see the wall

Mon, 02 Jan 2017 14:12:00 +0000

Hi
I write what i want :/
Only the modertors and admins can see the wall and only they can write it to there. I want comment about user.

Please say it can be thx to community

How to view who voted?

Wed, 16 Nov 2016 18:58:51 +0000

Is it possible for admin to see who voted up & down?

Is there a way for users with no special priviledges to see who voted?

Sat, 12 Nov 2016 03:46:41 +0000

Well there is an option for that in the permissions section but it's limited to experts, editors, moderators and admins only and in my case there's just no need for it.

Only users with enough points can see any answers?

Fri, 09 Sep 2016 08:34:19 +0000

I want to hide answers. Only users with enough points can see any answers

Help me! Thanks.

Recategorizing questions is not possible for users with enough points

Wed, 21 Jan 2015 07:11:39 +0000

In administration center--->Permissions I have set :

Recategorizing any question: registered users with enough points, users must have 1000 points.

But now when a user gain 1000 points and wants to recategorize a question get this error: Please provide more information- at least 20 characters.

could anyone help me please?

Allowing only one specific user to edit answers and comments

Sat, 08 Nov 2014 06:19:15 +0000

Hi everyone, I have a special case where only one specific user should (next to the admin) get the right to edit all answers and posts. But he should not get admin rights.

I have already used all available rangs from Editor, Moderator, etc. He should stay moderator together with some other users.

The way I have to go now is to change the core to permit his userid to edit A and C.

How I am doing it:

qa-app-users.php

After line:

$error=qa_permit_error($permitoption, $userid, qa_get_logged_in_level(), $flags);

I added:

        if($userid==123 && $error == 'level') {
           return false;
       }

because a level error would be thrown otherwise.

Any other idea how to solve this?

Thanks,
Kai