Controlled access to a forum

Hi,

We have a unique requirement for managing access to user content in a new forum.

We need to set up the forum so that only moderators and users who submitted a post can see their own contributions.

Other users would still be able to submit posts, but they wouldn't be able to see anyone else's posts.

Moderator: With full access to view, edit, and delete all forum content, regardless of who submitted it.
Submitter: With limited access to create and edit their own posts but not view other users' posts.

Is this possible using the current permission framework?

Thank you!!

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  • Hi  

    This is possible with the current permission framework (minus hiding other posts from other users). 

    If you have a custom role for Moderators in the specific group and forum you can permission that role You can also modify thr owner/ manager role at the application level (if either the owners or managers would be the same people as the moderators). You would allow the moderator to do the following: 

    • Attach Uploaded Files
    • Attach URLs
    • Bypass moderation
    • Create Discussion/ Question
    • Create Polls 
    • Create Reply
    • Delete Discussions, Questions and Replies
    • Edit Discussions, Questions, and Replies
    • If you want them to be able to manage the forum application settings - you can enable manage forum
    • Mark reply as answer (helps to ensure questions are properly updated with answered status)
    • Moderate and Review Abuse (if you want them to be moderators as well - which I would assume so) 
    • Pin/ Prioritize Discussions/ Questions (if this is something beneficial to your members and forum space)
    • Pin/ Prioritize Discussions/ Questions Forever (if this is something beneficial to your members and forum space) 
    • Rate Discussions, Questions, and Replies
    • Read Forum

    The submitter - either could be in a "member" role for the group and forum and you can modify the permissions strictly at the forum level. You can also create a custom role called "submitter" and add it to the group - but that will be an additional role to maintain. YOu would allow the submitters to do the following: 

    • Attach Uploaded Files (if you want submitters to be able to attach files in their questions)
    • Attach URLs (same as above - if you want users to be able to link items within their questions) 
    • Create Discussion/ Question 
    • Create Polls (If you would like users to beable to insert polls in their questions) 
    • Read Forum

    If you would like the submitters to also be able to comment and rate questions (like questions, vote up on replies) as well as replies - I would recommend enabling: 

    • Create Reply
    • Rate Discussions, Questions, and Replies 

    The best practice for something such as this is to test either in a STAGE site where you can create custom roles - add real/ mock users into the role and impeorsonate them to ensure the expirience is working as expected. 

    Something to note, is that Verint permissions are additive - meaning if a user is in role A as well as role B. And role A has permissions to do 5 things, Role B has permission to do the same 5 things as role A with 3 additional permissions - the user would have all 8 permissions. If you noticed the permissions are a bit wonky even though you have everything set up for you moderators and submitters - you may need to check under the site roles area within the permissions tab (as the site roles with allowed permissions to the groups may need ot be updated) 

    I was not sure if you were referring to the forum application level (which is what I described above) - but if you are referring to inidivual forum threads - there is not permissions OOTB to support that structure. BUT THERE IS NOT A WAY TO HIDE OTHER FORUM POSTS FROM OTHER USERS

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  • Hi  

    This is possible with the current permission framework (minus hiding other posts from other users). 

    If you have a custom role for Moderators in the specific group and forum you can permission that role You can also modify thr owner/ manager role at the application level (if either the owners or managers would be the same people as the moderators). You would allow the moderator to do the following: 

    • Attach Uploaded Files
    • Attach URLs
    • Bypass moderation
    • Create Discussion/ Question
    • Create Polls 
    • Create Reply
    • Delete Discussions, Questions and Replies
    • Edit Discussions, Questions, and Replies
    • If you want them to be able to manage the forum application settings - you can enable manage forum
    • Mark reply as answer (helps to ensure questions are properly updated with answered status)
    • Moderate and Review Abuse (if you want them to be moderators as well - which I would assume so) 
    • Pin/ Prioritize Discussions/ Questions (if this is something beneficial to your members and forum space)
    • Pin/ Prioritize Discussions/ Questions Forever (if this is something beneficial to your members and forum space) 
    • Rate Discussions, Questions, and Replies
    • Read Forum

    The submitter - either could be in a "member" role for the group and forum and you can modify the permissions strictly at the forum level. You can also create a custom role called "submitter" and add it to the group - but that will be an additional role to maintain. YOu would allow the submitters to do the following: 

    • Attach Uploaded Files (if you want submitters to be able to attach files in their questions)
    • Attach URLs (same as above - if you want users to be able to link items within their questions) 
    • Create Discussion/ Question 
    • Create Polls (If you would like users to beable to insert polls in their questions) 
    • Read Forum

    If you would like the submitters to also be able to comment and rate questions (like questions, vote up on replies) as well as replies - I would recommend enabling: 

    • Create Reply
    • Rate Discussions, Questions, and Replies 

    The best practice for something such as this is to test either in a STAGE site where you can create custom roles - add real/ mock users into the role and impeorsonate them to ensure the expirience is working as expected. 

    Something to note, is that Verint permissions are additive - meaning if a user is in role A as well as role B. And role A has permissions to do 5 things, Role B has permission to do the same 5 things as role A with 3 additional permissions - the user would have all 8 permissions. If you noticed the permissions are a bit wonky even though you have everything set up for you moderators and submitters - you may need to check under the site roles area within the permissions tab (as the site roles with allowed permissions to the groups may need ot be updated) 

    I was not sure if you were referring to the forum application level (which is what I described above) - but if you are referring to inidivual forum threads - there is not permissions OOTB to support that structure. BUT THERE IS NOT A WAY TO HIDE OTHER FORUM POSTS FROM OTHER USERS

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