This will be a feature in the next version of News, which is in early beta atm.

-Awesome, thanks for the update. I will look forward to it.

Hi Matt,

Try creating a new "Group" provide the new "Group" with privs for submission; turn off those same permissions for the old Registered Group.

That might work... I hope.

-Thanks for the response. This sounds interesting. I may be missing something here. As far as I can tell, I can only restrict registered users from access to the news block, but cannot restrict them from being able to submit news if they are given access to view the news block. Are there some permissions that I am missing?

IIRC the "old" news module only allowed for specifying whether anonymous users could submit news, only registered users or only webmasters (and I am not at all certain about that last one)

Everyone would see the "Submit News" link in the main menu, but people without permissions would get a "you cannot access this area" message.

-Does this confirm what I said above? I can only find permissions to restrict anonymous users from submitting news.

Thanks for all your help thus far.

-Matt

Is there a way to only allow some registered users to submit news?

I'd like for only a select few to be able to submit news. I found this change to the template suggested in the forum that would "hide" the submit link from non-registered users.

https://xoops.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=11137&forum=10#forumpost44713

Can any one help me with a way to do this for most registered users, only allowing one group of registered users to submit?

Thanks

Matt

As a clarification, I am looking for a way to log out any user who leaves the site to go to another site, even if only for a minute (Like an online banking site would). Is this possible? Any suggestions in what route I should take?

Thanks

Alright, I'm a newb to xoops, but it's awesome so far. My only current question is if there is a way for me to use a sessione variable or something to automatically log out a user when they leave the page. Any help on this would be much appreciated.

Also, I have the customer session enabled and set to 5 minutes, but it never logs your out. I can leave the site for half an hour and go back without logging out.

Thanks for any help........