By Seth Mak on Monday, 09 March 2015
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May you advise me whether I can define the following access rules to Group?

1) I create a SPECIAL Invite Only Group that ONLY the Moderator or the Group Creator can invite members to join the GROUP.

Is it possible to define such access rule?

2) Disable the discussion of a particular GROUP.

Many thanks.

Seth
Hi Seth,

1. I create a SPECIAL Invite Only Group that ONLY the Moderator or the Group Creator can invite members to join the GROUP. Is it possible to define such access rule?
I believe it is already follows this rule. I am sorry, am I missing anything here?

2. Disable the discussion of a particular group.
I believe you can disable discussion on a particular group. When you creating a group, you can select enable discussion = no. Here is my screenshot of the setting: http://screencast.com/t/qvxoSHnFqMf .

Please advise.
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Monday, 09 March 2015 23:59
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follow up on 1. It seems all members of an Invite-Only group can invite friends to join the group. Isn't it?

I want only group admins or moderators can invite people to join some special groups. While for other normal Invite-Only groups, all members can invite friends to join.

Pls advise
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Tuesday, 10 March 2015 00:07
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Hi Seth,

I am sorry for the misunderstanding. Currently there is no setting to do that. However, you can download this file and put it in your site here: .../components/com_easysocial/themes/wireframe/groups/item.header.php .

Hope this helps.
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Tuesday, 10 March 2015 00:29
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Thank you. But would you explain a bit more.

1) How to configure a SPECIAL invite-only Group that only the super admin, group admin or group moderator can invite friends to join.

2) How to configure a NORMAL invite-only Group that ALL Group Members can invite friends to join.

Thx.

Seth
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Tuesday, 10 March 2015 01:07
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Hi Seth,

I am sorry for the late reply. May I know how do you plan to differentiate between special and normal invite-only group because currently there is only one type of invite-only and if you want to achieve this, you need to do customization.

Please advise.
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Tuesday, 10 March 2015 10:34
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Oh.. Thank you.

Firstly, I would like to clarify that the item.header.php you gave me will convert the workflow of ALL Invite Only Group to that ONLY Superuser, Group Admin and Group Moderator can invite friends to join. Is this correct?

Secondly, Currently there are 3 Group Types: Open Group, Closed Group, Invite Only Group.

My requirement is to increase it to 4 Group Types: Open Group, Closed Group, Invite by members Only Group, & Invite by group owner/moderator only Group.

Is it easy to do customization?

If this is difficult, Can I propose it as a feature request?

Many thanks.
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Tuesday, 10 March 2015 14:00
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Hello Seth,

Yes, the file that my colleague gave you will work just like you mentioned earlier

Regarding on your second inquiry, I can say it will require some modification that could take some time for us to implement it. I suggest for you to post your idea at easysocial voice page, http://stackideas.com/voices/easysocial so that user can vote for your idea
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Tuesday, 10 March 2015 16:18
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