Viewing Permission.

[Sampo2910]

@phenomlab I am ex military lol…I just do as i am told and see hehe…

Well I still cannot get it to work with guests Every category is like this now.

If i logout and try to click on groups or users I am taken to the login page. Clicking on home or recent is as below.

[phenomlab]

@Sampo2910 that’s really odd. It works as expected in my dev environment which is an old copy of production

[phenomlab]

@Sampo2910 hi. I’m interested to know if you ever managed to get this working ? Seems to work as desired for me in my two environments.

[Sampo2910]

@phenomlab Hi,

Unfortunately not. Guessing it is something that I am doing wrong but I do not know what haha.

[phenomlab]

@Sampo2910 Hmmm - let’s look at that perhaps next week some time. Currently snowed under with an office move at work.

[Sampo2910]

@phenomlab That would be nice. Thank you.

Hope the move goes well

[phenomlab]

@Sampo2910 No problems - thanks.

[phenomlab]

@Sampo2910 Let me know when you’ve some free time so we can take a look at this.

[Sampo2910]

@phenomlab

Hi, sorry I have not been too good last weeks but on the mend. This is still not working for me along with a couple of other things haha.

I reinstalled again after basically giving up and then thinking ok…lets give it another go! Yes I’m nuts. Just keeping the brain cells ticking over.

[phenomlab]

@Sampo2910 can you give me access to your NodeBB instance so I can have a better look ?

Hope you’re better soon.

[Sampo2910]

@phenomlab If you connect with discord it is quick and I will make you admin. Feel free to do your magic whenever you have a spare few minutes. https://forum.fmjcod4.com/ I basically woudl like the home page the recent topics and as a guest they can see those topics but not access them if possible.

Only if you get a chance I cannot install recent cards ( i uninstalled it ) Was ok last time but this time it is giving the Lavender effect as in Vertical Tried twice now and still same.

Also remember we had the Tenor GIF problem. Well it installed ok and they work ok but where the little ‘gif’ icon is when making a post is not there haha…All the small things. Thank you Mark.

It is late here so if i do not reply I will soon. But of course there is no rush with this and only when you have a little time for me. Coffee on the way

[phenomlab]

@Sampo2910 thanks. I’ll have a look. Can you remind me of the URL for your site ?

[Sampo2910]

@phenomlab https://forum.fmjcod4.com/

[phenomlab]

@Sampo2910 thanks. Just seen it in the above post also! Sorry.

[phenomlab]

@Sampo2910 registered and email validated.

[Sampo2910]

@phenomlab Should be Admin now.

[phenomlab]

@Sampo2910 thanks. I’ll look at this tomorrow.

[Sampo2910]

@phenomlab No problem. Thank you

[phenomlab]

@Sampo2910 Interesting. I took a look at this in more detail, and it seems you’re right. I can display the topics in each category (after setting the relevant permissions), but you can’t open them unless you register. That’s great.

However, this seems to have a material impact on the recent view in the sense that nothing will show up as it requires the “Access Topic” right. Based on this, the options are somewhat restrictive in terms of which route will work best. Recent topics is almost useless as a view if you can’t see the topics that you have access to - I think that this is likely a better question for the NodeBB devs themselves.

You could create a custom page, copy the recent template, and modify the underlying code to get what you want, but to me, this seems a little overkill for what should be a relatively simple ask.

[Sampo2910]

@phenomlab Hi,

Thanks for taking a look. And yes it is overkill just for that problem. I noticed it on this forum ad liked the idea of it. However you can access topics here. I can just leave it as is and I will have the categories as the ‘home page’ Guests can see them but not enter.

I will now try to look into why the tenor gif icon is missing in the posting section, plus why recent cards are vertical (lavender style) haha. It is always something.

You are a gentlemen Mark and thank you again.