Admin Control Panel

General Permissions

Most of these permission are not in the Admin Control Panel, they are split between the extensions/awc/perm.php file and your Wiki's `User rights management` but i thought this would be a good place to post the information.

To change permissions, there are three methods available:

perm.php
User rights management
Viewing permissions within catagories and forums

perm.php

The perm.php file holds the permissions used within the forum. It can be edited manually by wiki operators with access to the host server where the file is stored, to personalise the permissions for their own forum.

A note of interest:

With all of the forum permissions you can add/create your own with current Wiki groups you might have
An example will be giving in the Admin group below and also the CanView group so you can get the gist of how it works.

The first two permissions have to do with Forum Admins and Moderators, all the rest are to do with users and guests.

Options available:

Forum Admins and Moderators permission

# Forum Admins and Moderators
#   awc_ForumAdmin
#   awc_ForumMod
# bureaucrat - is defaulted with FULL control
$wgGroupPermissions['Forum: Admin']['awc_ForumAdmin']  = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['Forum: Mod']['awc_ForumMod']      = true;

These permissions will show up in your Wiki's 'User Rights management' page (Special:Userrights) so you can add Users you wish to each of the groups.

By adding the following you can make your Wiki's Editors group Admin.

$wgGroupPermissions['Your Wikis Editors Group']['awc_ForumAdmin']  = true;

Viewing permissions

//   awc_View
# Allowed to View forum and threads...
$wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['awc_View']          	        = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['*'    ]['awc_View']          	        = true;
// awc_CanNotView
#   Users who can not read the forums...
$wgGroupPermissions['Forum: Cant View']['awc_CanNotView']          	= true;

These permissions control who is allowed to view the forums, set to true by default, allowing signed in wiki users and non signed in users or 'guests' to view the forums. They affect all logged in and non logged in users.

If either value is changed to false, they will not be able to view the forums. This could be preferable where wiki operators do not want anyone viewing the forums other than signed in users. If that is desired, a wiki operator would only change the '*' value to false.

If you already have a wiki group of "privileged" users and for what ever reason you only want these user to bable to read the forum you can do the following, change both the 'user' and '*' (guests) to false and then add your Privileged Group as true.

$wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['awc_View']          	        = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*'    ]['awc_View']          	        = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['Privileged Group Name']['awc_View']  = true;

The 'Forum: Cant View' permission, is tied into the wikis 'User rights management', accessable only to wiki Bureaucrat's, and gives the wiki Bureaucrat the ability to prevent specific wiki users from viewing the forum. It is set to true by default and should not be changed, otherwise the feature will effectivley serve no purpose.

Posting permissions

//   awc_Post
# Allowed to post...
$wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['awc_Post']          	= true;
$wgGroupPermissions['*'    ]['awc_Post']          	= false;
// awc_CanNotPost
#   Users that can NOT post
$wgGroupPermissions['Forum: Cant Post'    ]['awc_CanNotPost']          	= true;

Edit own post permissions

//   awc_CanEdit
# Allowed to edit their own post...
$wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['awc_CanEdit']         = true ;
$wgGroupPermissions['*'    ]['awc_CanEdit']         = false ;
// awc_CanNotEdit
# Users who can NOT edit their own posts
$wgGroupPermissions['Forum: Cant Edit']['awc_CanNotEdit']          	= true;

Delete own post permissions

//   awc_CanDelete
# Allowed to delete their own post...
$wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['awc_CanDelete']      	= false ;
$wgGroupPermissions['*'    ]['awc_CanDelete']      	= false ;
// awc_CanNotDelete
# Users that can NOT delete their own posts..
$wgGroupPermissions['Forum: Cant Delete']['awc_CanNotDelete']          	= true;

Search permissions

//   awc_CanSearch
# Allowed to search...
$wgGroupPermissions['*'    ]['awc_CanSearch']      	= true ;
$wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['awc_CanSearch']      	= true ;
// Search
# Users that can NOT search..
$wgGroupPermissions['Forum: Cant Search']['awc_CanNotSearch']          	= true;

Signature permissions

//  awc_CanHaveSig
# Allowed to have Sig..
$wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['awc_CanHaveSig']      = true;
// awc_CanNotHaveSig
# Users who can not have a Sig...
$wgGroupPermissions['Forum: No Sigs' ]['awc_CanNotHaveSig']      = true ;

User rights management

Add / Delete Category

Covered here

Add / Delete Forum

Covered here

Forum Config Settings

General Option's

Subtitle of your forum
Name of your Forum
Can guests view signatures ?
META Tag 'ROBOTS' (info)
Minimum Search Letters
How to display short dates... (info)
How to display long dates... (info)
Can guests View Avatars

Forum(s) Option's

Allow Forum Subscriptions
Display 4 or 5 columns on forum thread listing page. Yes=5 No=4
Length of threads title's displayed in forums 'Last Post' column
How long thread titles can be.
How many threads to display in a forum
Display length of thread titles listed in forums...
How many number blocks to display on forums pages

Member Option's

How long a Users signature can be...
Maximum people a Moderator can send a PM to
Maximum PM's a Moderator can have
Maximum people a User can send a PM to
Maximum PM's a User can have
Avatars size Height x Width
Avatars size limit, in bytes
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Avatars can be Wiki image tags
Avatars can be link form http
Avatars can be uploaded

Thread Option's

Show Wiki Edit count in threads
Minimum length of wiki page titles to search out for the Wiki-Magic-URLs (default is 5)
Convert words that are Wiki titles to links with-in post text.
Allow the use of the <wiki> tag in threads. This will imbed a wiki page into a post.
Allow Thread Subscriptions
Show Thread count in posts
Show Posts count in threads
If extension FCKeditor is installed, Display in forum
If installed, Display MediaWiki:Edittools
Display Smiles
Height of the Quick reply text box
How many post to display in a thread
Expiration time for Post Count, One hour incritments
Height of the Posting, Editing, Quoting text box
Number of Multi-Page Blocks to display next to a threads Title on the forum page
How many number blocks to display in threads
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Forum Tag Option's

Examples of how to use.

Forum Tag for Wiki: What Forums to get info from. Separate forum ID's with a comma ( , ).
Forum Tag for Wiki: Thread title length limit.
Forum Tag for Wiki: Number of threads to display

Emotions: Edit, Add or Delete

Uploading, editing or deleting...

Language file

Change text through out the forum

All text displayed with-in the forum can be change by accessing: Admin Control Panel -> Language file
Which will bring you to the following screen.

Use the "Select a Language pack to edit" if you want to change the text with-in the forum along with the section you want to edit. You can use wiki syntax, along with wiki Image:

How the forums Language Packs work

By default the forum is set up to display all text in English.
This can be changed in the \extensions\awc\forums\lang.php file.

if (in_array($wgUser->mOptions['language'], $l)) {
    $awc['lang'] = $wgUser->mOptions['language'] ;
} else {
    # default lang
   $awc['lang'] = 'en' ;
}

The lang.php will check the current Users preferences to see what language they have selected. If the user has selected a language which the Forum Admin as not installed the user will see the forums text in the Default setting (guest will see the forum in the Default language also). If the Forum Admin has the Users selected language installed the lang.php will then display the Forums text in that selected language.
Exmaple:
Forum Admin has English (en), Spanish (es) and French (fr) installed. User "Jane" has her User Wiki Lang Preference set to, Spanish. When she is logged in and viewing the Forum all forum text will automatically be displayed in Spanish for her. User "Fred" has German selected in his Wiki Preferences, being the forum Admin does not have a German Language Pack installed, Fred will see the forum in the default language.

When editing the default value in the lang.php file you must use the correct language abbreviation and that language pack must be installed.

Create new Language Packs

Create New

For some user uploaded Language Packs, click here.

Updating, Importing and Exporting

All info for this can be forumhere

Maintenance

Prune threads per-forum
Re-calculate Thread and Post count for forum display

Look Up Users Forum's Account

While viewing a thread, click on the asterisk (star) to edit the members info.

or you can use the "Look Up Users Forum's Account" in the AdminCP.

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