Announcement board help

[lordy123]

Hi,
I'd like to have a board where one of my users can start news topics and anyone can answer. So I set her up an announcement board and made her a mod on that board only.

So now she can start topics and anyone can reply. Great!  

But she can't start Polls!? Why is that and what can I do without making her a G/mod or admin..

Any ideas ppl?!
Thanx!

[Nonya]

Make sure that you allow users to start polls

[lordy123]

I've done that already. It seems that a normal mod can only create posts on an announcement board that they are modding. They cannot create new polls. It comes back with:

You are not allowed to create a new topic here - this is an announcement board.

Only Global Mods and Admins can start polls on any announcement board.  

Is that how it should be or not?  

Thanx.

[Peter Duggan]

Try creating a new member group for that moderator.

Search Poll.php for:

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&& $settings[7] != 'Administrator' && $settings[7] != 'Global Moderator'
And add the new member group to the two existing ones (Administrator and Global Moderator) in the same way for all three instances found:

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&& $settings[7] != 'Administrator' && $settings[7] != 'Global Moderator' && $settings[7] != 'My New Member Group'

[lordy123]

Thanx Peter, you've got me looking in the right place..  I owe you a beer!

I did this (hope this isn't a bad thing   , but it now does what I originally needed)
In Poll.php

line 43 change:

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   if ($isAnnouncement && $settings[7] != 'Administrator' && $settings[7] != 'Global Moderator' )

to:

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   if ($isAnnouncement && $settings[7] != 'Administrator' && $settings[7] != 'Global Moderator' && !in_array($username, $moderators))


line 190 change:

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if ($isAnnouncement && $settings[7] != 'Administrator' && $settings[7] != 'Global Moderator')


to

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if ($isAnnouncement && $settings[7] != 'Administrator' && $settings[7] != 'Global Moderator' && !in_array($username, $moderators))


[Peter Duggan]

Sorry I was a bit careless in posting the solution (now edited) without checking for every instance of the required changes.

<edit>Erroneous statement removed by author!</edit>

[lordy123]

Doh!   I hope not! I did test it by creating two announcement board. One one, I made a user a mod and on another I didn't. Where that user is a mod, they can now start polls and posts. On the other, the new post and new poll buttons don't show at all. Can anyone confirm if that is ok?

Thanx!

[Peter Duggan]

Sure, it's OK, so perhaps I should be grovelling for messing up again!

What I did was to change the permissions so you had to assign the moderator to a special member group to allow them to post polls in announcement boards, whereas you've automatically given them that right if they're a moderator for that board (which is probably tidier in most circumstances).

!in_array($username, $moderators) denies the necessary permission if the user isn't a moderator for that board, so it's absolutely sound unless (for some strange reason concocted solely to justify my original solution), you want to appoint more than one moderator to that board but specify which of them can or can't start polls!

[lordy123]

Thanks for the confirmation Peter