icadmin Posted February 21, 2005 Posted February 21, 2005 Hello, I've installed IPB.. I'm trying to place a graphic jpeg in place of the blue banner. The graphic is on my hard drive and I'm trying to figure out how to simply upload it and see it appear. Next, I've created a few forums and a new user group.. what I want to do is.. I want to have the ability to have members join and NOT let them see specific forums or categories created. So if a regular member signs in.. they couldn't see a category or forum that was created for say Forum Owners.. but the Forum owners can see it. So in essense.. I want to be able to allow some members see some things and others not. I noticed on the IPB site they have different software there which allows you to "show forum". I've been messing with stuff and I got it to disappear once.. but I don't really understand what I am or am not doing. Ok, now that this may be clear as Mud! Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Ron Quote
TCH-RobertM Posted February 21, 2005 Posted February 21, 2005 Hello icadmin, Welcome to the Forums, I have not used IPB yet, I am sure others here will have an answer for you shortly. Again welcome though. Quote
icadmin Posted February 21, 2005 Author Posted February 21, 2005 Hello icadmin, Welcome to the Forums, I have not used IPB yet, I am sure others here will have an answer for you shortly. Again welcome though. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Thank you. I appreciate that. Quote
TCH-Don Posted February 21, 2005 Posted February 21, 2005 Welcome to the Family Ron and your new home! We hve a few tips on moding IPB it the Third Party Script Tutorials that may help. If you need more please let us know. We really are like family here. So if you need anything, just ask your new family! We love to help Quote
TCH-Bruce Posted February 21, 2005 Posted February 21, 2005 Welcome to the family and forums Ron You control who sees forums and posts by creating groups. Then you set group access levels to the forums. Then you set members to belong to those groups. Quote
HCSuperStores Posted February 21, 2005 Posted February 21, 2005 What TCH-Bruce said! ;-) Welcome to TCH! Bill H Quote
icadmin Posted February 21, 2005 Author Posted February 21, 2005 Welcome to the family and forums Ron You control who sees forums and posts by creating groups. Then you set group access levels to the forums. Then you set members to belong to those groups. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Thanks.. could you please give me a bit more detail on this one in this area.. a tad confusing and it's not quite working "cut and dry". Thanks Quote
icadmin Posted February 21, 2005 Author Posted February 21, 2005 Welcome to the family and forums Ron You control who sees forums and posts by creating groups. Then you set group access levels to the forums. Then you set members to belong to those groups. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I created a user access group called "users", I then set a person to that access level. I then edited a forum to that access level.. when I logged in.. I was still able to see much more than what I wanted. This is why I feel a bit more detail may be needed as I'm sure I'm doing something wrong. Thanks. Quote
icadmin Posted February 21, 2005 Author Posted February 21, 2005 Welcome to the family and forums Ron You control who sees forums and posts by creating groups. Then you set group access levels to the forums. Then you set members to belong to those groups. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Ok, after doing a bit of investigating.. I did the following and it worked. I created a group called "user", then I edited the specific forum and took permission away from the "user" group.. then I found a user and adjusted that name to the group "user" and then I clicked on mask and clicked on over ride with the "user" group permission and updated it. I went back in under that user and viola.. was unable to see anything that user group wasn't meant to see. If I did that correctly.. Thanks! Quote
HCSuperStores Posted February 21, 2005 Posted February 21, 2005 Sounds like you're on the right track icadmin! I use the Invision BB too. At first it was a little confusing, but the more you work with it, the more intuitive it becomes and before you know it - piece-o-cake! Keep up the good work! Bill H Quote
icadmin Posted February 21, 2005 Author Posted February 21, 2005 Welcome to the Family Ron and your new home! We hve a few tips on moding IPB it the Third Party Script Tutorials that may help. If you need more please let us know. We really are like family here. So if you need anything, just ask your new family! We love to help <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I took a look.. is it possible to replace the banner with a graphic that is completely different in size in every way? Quote
TCH-Bruce Posted February 21, 2005 Posted February 21, 2005 Sounds like you have a handle on it now. Quote
TCH-Don Posted February 21, 2005 Posted February 21, 2005 I took a look.. is it possible to replace the banner with a graphic that is completely different in size in every way? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I don't see why not, give it a try Quote
icadmin Posted February 21, 2005 Author Posted February 21, 2005 I took a look.. is it possible to replace the banner with a graphic that is completely different in size in every way? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I don't see why not, give it a try <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I've been trying to do just that. What file is it that is pointing to logo4.gif? Seems like something else is pointing to that file. Even if I just rename my file.. it doesn't seem to want to work. Quote
icadmin Posted February 21, 2005 Author Posted February 21, 2005 Hello.. I tried these direction.. log into your admin CP goto skins and templates manage HTML templates manage HTML global HTML elements select Board Header (logo, links, etc) > edit about 14 lines down you will find the place to modify. look for img src='{ibf.vars.img_url}/logo.jpg' however once I get to "manage HTML".. there is nothing there to edit. This is a new install and I have managed to replaced the current graphic with my own however I need to do a bit more editing. I need to adjust the centering and remove the url and possibly remove the rest of the blue bar. Is there another way to get there besides following these directions? Thanks. Quote
TCH-Don Posted February 21, 2005 Posted February 21, 2005 if you right click your current forum logo you will see the path and file name like /forums/style_images/1/logo4.gif if you use ftp to goto that folder on your site /forums/style_images/1/ and replace the original logo4.gif with your own logo4.gif it sholud work. A link would help, here or PM if you want. Quote
icadmin Posted February 21, 2005 Author Posted February 21, 2005 if you right click your current forum logoyou will see the path and file name like /forums/style_images/1/logo4.gif if you use ftp to goto that folder on your site /forums/style_images/1/ and replace the original logo4.gif with your own logo4.gif it sholud work. A link would help, here or PM if you want. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yes, I was finally able to get the gif replaced. I had to upload the gif and then using file manager rename the gif on the site for it to work. Now I'm having issues with this.. log into your admin CP goto skins and templates manage HTML templates manage HTML global HTML elements select Board Header (logo, links, etc) > edit about 14 lines down you will find the place to modify. look for img src='{ibf.vars.img_url}/logo.jpg' I can't get this to work once I get to manage HTML.. there is nothing there to edit. Quote
TCH-Don Posted February 21, 2005 Posted February 21, 2005 Ok when I goto the skins and templates and click on html template just under that. Then click on manage html at the right. Then click on Global HTML elements and find Board Header (logo, links, etc) and click on edit single and then I see the code for the board header. The alternative is to copy the forum/Skin/s1/skin_global.php to your computer and edit it merging posts Quote
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