Group Permissions
Tab
The Group Permissions tab providers a restriction center for users depending on their type.
To access it, head to Components >> RSComments! >> Group Permissions, you will be presented with a listing of the custom RSComments! groups.
Available RSComments! group specific restrictions
- Group Name : this is the group name
- Joomla Group : select the Joomla group for which the permissions will be applied
Commenting
- Post new comments : allows user to post or not comments
- Edit own comments : if enabled the user will be allowed to edit his own comment
- Delete own comments : if checked the user will be allowed to delete his comments
- Edit other comments : if checked the user will be able to edit other comments
- Delete other comments : if checked the user will be able to delete other comments
- Allow BBCode : allow users to add BBCode to comments (BBCode options can be found below)
- Allow voting for comments : if enabled the guest will be able to vote comments
- Auto-subscribe to thread : users will be auto-subscribed to what they are commenting
- Allow to open/close threads : if enabled, it will allow users that belong to this group to disable or enable the commenting form on commenting threads
- Allow reply : if enabled, users that belong to this group will be allowed to reply to comments
- Enable comment preview : if enabled, users can preview their comment before posting it.
Security
- View author's email address : display the comment submitter email address
- View author's IP : display the comment submitter IP
- Enable Captcha : if enabled, a captcha spam image protection will be placed on the comment submission form.
- Censor bad words : if enabled the comment will be filtered with configured censored words: Components > RSComments! > Configuration > Filter
- Enable flood control : if enabled the time between consecutive posts will be enforced e.g. comments need to be at least x seconds apart
- Disallow forbidden names : if enabled, this group will not be able to use the Forbidden names configured: Components > RSComments > Configuration > Comments > Forbidden names
Publishing
- Publishing : allow this group to moderate comments
- Auto-publish comments : posted comments by this group will be published automatically (without the need for a moderator to publish it from the back-end area)
Enabling or disable the following options will change the available BBCode options as seen in the below screenshot
- Enable bold tag
- Enable italic tag
- Enable underling tag
- Enable stroke tag
- Enable quote tag
- Enable list tags
- Enable image tag
- Enable url tag
- Enable code tag
- Enable videos tags
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