Does Flarum support private tags that only certain members can post/access ?

aligajani

We have a top level tag (aka category) called Photography. Under this, we wish to have a myriad of sub tags (low level categories) for specific campaigns we run for our photography courses, so campaign1.photography.id , campaign2.photography.id and so forth.

We wish to limit access to certain campaign tags for photography to that particular campaign member only. I do have Flagrow installed, but I am not sure how to proceed implementing this. Thought such a feature would exist in Flarum by default, e.g private groups /communities, but unfortunately not the case. Thanks for helping.

CC @romanzpolski

Blueh

you can set it in administration > permission > restrict by tag

if you want anybody can select their own tags, I requested in this thread: https://discuss.flarum.org/d/6919-optional-tags-hidden-by-default

aligajani

The problem is, we will have many classes of members, not just "one member". Some members will have access to some tags and their corresponding content. How would I go about it?

Thanks for your earlier input.

ThomasLewis

aligajani use groups and permissions together. I have tags restricted to Men, Women, Mods, Admins, etc. you set up groups, restrict by tag, and only allow certain groups to access them. To add users to a group, view their profile and click “edit”. There you can add them to groups.

aligajani

Alright, but this isn't scalable isn't it. I mean we can't be having groups (akin to mods/admins) for each campaign, course which could be like 30 every month. Or are you referring to some other form of groups on Flarum?

ThomasLewis

aligajani you make one group for each unique course (Course 1, Course 2, etc) and add new users to the existing groups. I assume you’re planning on reusing the courses, otherwise you’re creating an insane amount of work for yourself redesigning courses for each participant.

jordanjay29

aligajani Why not?

You may want to look into a users list extension like this one to make it easier to track members. But you should be able to grant mod-like powers to any tag.

aligajani

Guys, I thank you for all your support. Here's a clearer version of what we are trying to do.
We have courses to the tune of 30 — Photography, Marketing, Nutrition etc.
Each of these courses will be primary tags.

Under the primary course tag, we wish to have secondary tags like below:

— All Time CourseName (This hosts generic course threads e.g. photography discussions)
— SpecificMonth CourseName YearName CampaignId (This hosts course threads specific to a campaign)

Now we have 30 odd courses in total, and each new campaign commences every month. So potentially, looking at 360 different campaign specific course groups, each with threads consisting of discussions related to members of that particular campaign only.

The ability to prevent a member from an older campaign to access say a photography campaign group threads for the next campaign is necessary, unless a discussion is moved to the parent generic primary category of All Time CourseName .e.g All Time Photography.

ThomasLewis

aligajani Under the primary course tag, we wish to have secondary tags like below:

— All Time CourseName (This hosts generic course threads e.g. photography discussions)
— SpecificMonth CourseName YearName CampaignId (This hosts course threads specific to a campaign)

What is the actual time overlap of the running courses? I may have an idea…

aligajani

A Photography campaign running in October means that regardless of whatever campaigns succeed it in the future, October photography members should still be able to converse and discuss under their group forever.