Flarum Help Tags

askvortsov

Pollux Yeah the byobu integration is currently completely brokem. I'm going to try to get that fixed since byobu is a very popular extension.

askvortsov

v0.1.3

Fixed byobu incompatibility

Purple-Marble Pollux Thanks for the feedback!

Pollux

askvortsov

Tested your new revision and now it seems to do it's job properly. Great. 👍️

Littlegolden

Seriously, can someone explain what this plugin does? I read the original post, but I feel that the function described can be done without this plugin? And I installed this plugin, it feels nothins changes.

After the plug-in is installed, "View Tags" is set as globally visible by administrator only. But all tags can still be seen by ordinary users without logging in.

askvortsov

Littlegolden Essentially, this decouples the permissions for viewing a discussion from those for starting a discussion. As a result, you can now have tags where members can create a discussion, but only the author and authorized groups can see/reply to that discussion. The 'View Tags' permission was introduced so that tags that are restricted in this way can be shown to people who aren't logged in. It isn't intended to restrict who can see tags, but rather to broaden that.

danielunited

Littlegolden Basically, it's great because it allows for private discussions between the discussion creator + a particular group. Only the discussion creator/author and that particular group can see the discussion. It's great if you have a community for health discussions, for example, where you want the discussions to remain visible just for the creator + an expert in that particular field. Hope that makes sense.

askvortsov

UPDATE:

This is currently incompatible with Clark's Wordpress Extension (https://discuss.flarum.org/d/22229-premium-wordpress-integration/159), and might cause issues with other extensions. I've figured out the root cause, but unfortunately it's a problem with the tags extension. I will be opening up a pull request there to fix it, but this may delay a solution for a while until that PR is merged.

Edit: A PR has been opened at flarum/tags79. Once that is merged, I will push out a new version of this extension that fixes the issue.

askvortsov

ornanovitch Hey, thanks for reporting! Before beta 14, this extension used a messy, hacky workaround, which conflicted with other extensions (askvortsov); that's likely how the issue was introduced. With beta 14, the implementation was massively improved and simplified. I do not recommend using this on installations before beta 14 (or using those versions at all, for that matter).

bavard

Hi, would you be willing to enhance this extension so that it can be used to grant/restrict access to certain primary tags and certain user groups, in a permission friendly way as described there ? Or should I seek to code my own.

clarkwinkelmann

bavard this sounds like material for another (new) extension. I see no reason to merge two very different things (theming and permission management) into a single extension.

bavard

clarkwinkelmann What do you call theming ? To me this extension and the one I want both concern permissions.

askvortsov

Hi! I'm a bit confused by what exactly you're requesting. If it's a system where only the first post by a user requires approval, then unfortunately this is not something I see in the future of this extension.

bavard

askvortsov Actually the other thread went off topic by my fault. What I'm looking for is a simpler way (admin wise) to have certain groups only access certain categories (main primary tags). It can be used in various ways, for example language specific groups with language specific categories, or hierarchy based membership (level 1 access category A, level 2 access categories A B C, etc).

Bluejeanx

Hey, just wondering if this is compatible with the latest release since there is no proof in this discussion that this will work on the latest BETA of Flarum (0.1.0-beta.13).

askvortsov

It should be compatible. However, the bug identified above still stands: it might not play well with other extensions. Starting beta 14 that won't be a problem though.

askvortsov

v0.2.0

Support for Beta 14

The incompatibilities with other extensions have been fixed, this extension should be good to use again!

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@askvortsov is on 🔥 with recent updates 😀 thanks!

askvortsov

v0.3.1

Support for beta 15

ornanovitch

Hi,

It seems we have a privacy break here (beta 13) : when we configure a help tag as you describe, it works perfectly but in the "user activity" page every member of the forum can see every one's posts in all discussions, regardless the tag permissions (including byobu discussions..!)

When I disable the help tags extension, everything's back to normal

ornanovitch

ornanovitch Does anybody can try to reproduce ? It seems to be a particularly sensitive issue to me...

Pollux

ornanovitch when we configure a help tag as you describe, it works perfectly but in the "user activity" page every member of the forum can see every one's posts in all discussions, regardless the tag permissions (including byobu discussions..!)

I can't replicate this behaviour.

In my local test forum I have - as you described - the Help Tags extension installed and activated. I have three users A is Admin, B und C are regular users. User B has written in the Help Tag category as well as private discussions with A. User C can't see any of these contents supposed to be hidden, neither on the index page, nor in the respective tags / list of private discussions nor in his user page (posts and discussions).

ornanovitch

askvortsov Pollux OK thank you very much for your replies 🐥 I will re enable the extension as soon as I'll upgrade to beta 14/15 and then send you a confirmation that everything's back to normal ☑️