i have diferent groups in my site. is it possible to have one of the fb forums that will be accessed only by one of the groups, and other groups will not be able to see or at least access?

yayame wrote:
is it possible to have one of the fb forums that will be accessed only by one of the groups, and other groups will not be able to see or at least access?

Short answer --- NO.

FB does not have User Access control, it only uses J!s horribly limited group system.
Now, you do have options... you Could hack the FB core and add one field to jos_fb_users to hold a key to the forum and a check when FB lists them... Then hack the groupjive core to add to this key when a user joins a group.

A few problems with this just off the top of my head- Users Do Not have FB profiles by default... they are created after a users visits the Forum for the first time. Also, the simplified way I described this above, would only give then access to the One forum they have the key to... (get around this by using a Table instead of one field, I guess (?))

In the future- J1.6 will have a supper ACL system, (which I can't wait for, BTW). BUT we have to hope that FB will receive an update to take advantage of that and then hope that GJ also takes advantage.

Maybe- the New Phoenix Board will implement some kind of access control...

http://www.groupjive.org/index.php?option=com_kunena&Itemid=45&func=view&catid=4&id=6022

If, (at the start at least) Iosoft keeps the basic db structure of FB it would be reletivly easy to follow it with GJ. This is a long shot though because It seems Iosoft will be doing a ground-up rebuild of this thing basically from the start (?).

Hopfully- CB and GJ will be ported to Agora Forum
There is an awful lot of talk about a CB pluging for Agora Olympus. I personally am excited about this possibility. This could help you, as Agora has built in user permissions... it is also a pretty nice board.

Sorry, what was your question? I kinda got wrapped up in things here a bit. Anyhow, again, short answer- NO
Great idea though... (karma+1)
Good Luck and Have Fun!
Aaron

Well,
I should add that we can Hide the forums and access them with a direct link with a simple change to Line 45 in fb_pathway.php.... BUT they are not Private!

Aaron.

I'm sorry and want to clarify...
I spoke a bit too hastily regarding the OPs question. I see a difference between a private forum and one that only does not show up in the index. GJ, as it is right now and with one small pathway hack Will provide a link to the group forums while they are hidden from view. However, these forums are not private and can be accessed by anyone with the url...
Sorry if my first reply confused matters for you!

If you want to try it out... just un-publish the forum and parent category in FB, then do the hack I have here:


Aaron.

That's in the readme by the way