CMPS Page outside of forum security

[Molon Labe]

Can I make a CMPS page and have it outside of forum security?

I have a forum that is not viewable by the "unregistered/not logged in" group. If someone who is not registered goes to the forum, they get the log in screen. I want a home page in the forum that can be viewed by the "unregistered/not logged in" group. I have tried using other mods to make pages, but the forum security overrides the page security and the log-in screen appears.

Can I use vBadvanced CMPS to make a home page that can be viewed by anyone and if they click on the forum button in the navbar, then it will take them to the log-in screen?

I am running vBulletin 4.1.5 PL1.

Thanks in advance!

[CareyCrew]

You can choose which group sees any page or even modules per page using the permissions settings.

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[Molon Labe]

That I have the "unregistered users/not logged in" box unchecked in "can see forum" in vBulletin won't interfere with the CMPS permissions?

I just want to make sure vBulletin security doesn't interfere with the CMPS security.

Thanks

[CareyCrew]

Take a look here at the Admin Demo >> http://www.vbadvanced.com/forum/demo/?script=cmps

Where you add pages or modules you will see "Permissions" settings where you set who has access to what content.

You can create pages and modules for different members,staff,moderators,admins,guests.

When you first arrive at this site the page you see the CMPS default page as a guest, the content other groups see when logged in (if any) is your choice.

There is also a "Quick Permissions" editor in the ACP.

I have had pages with Google Adsense modules visible to guests, members when logged in got modules in the same postions with site relative content instead of adverts.

You can also have different skins/themes for different pages.

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[KW802]

That I have the "unregistered users/not logged in" box unchecked in "can see forum" in vBulletin won't interfere with the CMPS permissions?

I just want to make sure vBulletin security doesn't interfere with the CMPS security.

ThanksNo, you're good. If you check out the options that CareyCrew has listed then you'll see that you can override the permissions at a few different levels in CMPS.

For example, the highest level of security is at the "page" level where you can specify which users groups can even see the page. This is not related to the content (aka: modules) that are on the page, this is the entire page itself.

Once you do decide to grant a user group to view the page then you can decide which user groups see which modules. For example, on my vB sites I used to have a "Welcome to... Please Register..." type module that I would turn on for the unregistered/guests usergroup so that they would see it but then I turned it off for the rest of the groups.

Getting down into it even further some of the vBa CMPS stock modules, such as the News module, allows you to override vB's permissions entirely. That way you could have a forum named (for example) "Top Secret Stuff" in vBulletin that only your registered visitors could see the full thread contents but you could then point the News module to that forum and select the option to override permissions. Then in the News module you could specify how many characters of the post should be displayed in the module on the page. The end result then would be a News module that shows the first X amount of characters from the threads in the "Top Secret Stuff" forum but when visitors then clicked on the links they would would not be able to see the full content unless they were in a vBulletin usergroup that has permissions to that forum.

[Molon Labe]

Thank you all very much. That solves my concern and I will go with the install. I will let you know how it goes. Again, thanks!

[Molon Labe]

I installed CMPS and it went flawlessly. I can view the homepage that was pre-installed when I am logged in. However when I am not logged in, all I get is the log-in screen. In the quick permissions editor, I have all the pages viewable to all groups, and then I have the calendar viewable in the modules to all groups. In the homepage itself, I have the permissions set to all groups to view it also. But I still get the log-in box.

I want this page to be seen by users who are not logged in because I am going to modify it.

Any suggestions?

[KW802]

Molon, if you have this option turned off, try turning it on to verify the results...

ACP => Usergroups => Usergroup Manager => {Unregistered / Not Logged in} Edit => Forum Viewing Permissions => Can View Forum

If the group is prevented from viewing the forums then any addons will also be globally restricted as well since the add-ons are running within vB.

[Molon Labe]

Molon, if you have this option turned off, try turning it on to verify the results...

ACP => Usergroups => Usergroup Manager => {Unregistered / Not Logged in} Edit => Forum Viewing Permissions => Can View Forum

If the group is prevented from viewing the forums then any addons will also be globally restricted as well since the add-ons are running within vB.

It works if I have the unregistered/not logged in group allowed to see the forum. I don't want them to see the forum, only the home page. Is there a way to get around the global security without turning this on?

[KW802]

It works if I have the unregistered/not logged in group allowed to see the forum. I don't want them to see the forum, only the home page. Is there a way to get around the global security without turning this on?
Give me a bit to poke around. I know this came up before as a question but I don't recall at the moment if Brian has a code hack to work-around it or if there was no outcome at the time.

[KW802]

Give me a bit to poke around. I know this came up before as a question but I don't recall at the moment if Brian has a code hack to work-around it or if there was no outcome at the time.
Found it... :o

http://www.vbadvanced.com/forum/showthread.php?t=38968

Brian's recommendation at the time was to leave the option turned on but then go into each forum's permissions and there explicitly specify per forum that guests can't view it.

[Molon Labe]

Thanks KW!