I find that I'm completely baffled by permissions.
Is there a simple way to add "Best Answer" permissions to users? I have completely failed to get to grips with this.
There are effectively two ranks:
Admin: Who I want to be able to edit all best answers
Users: Who I want to allow to set a best answer, and change a best answer on threads of their creation only.
For some reason Django update caused CheckboxSelectMultiple to display as radio choice. This is wrong and needs to be fixed, so Misago 0.38.1 will happen soon. 🤬
Otherwise you would add the "Q&A Forums" role to the users rank, and edit category permissions for "Q&A Forums" user role you would set "Q&A User" for every category.
I find that I'm completely baffled by permissions.
I am also baffled by Misago's permission system and want to replace it with much saner perms system soon. I am talking January-February 2024 here.
In the meantime here's how I am understanding the perms system myself:
Thanks for that...it at least explains how I couldn't think to make a sane selection of an individual role.
I'm currently dealing with the permissions system, by trying to keep it as simple as possible. It's not good...and the changes that you are planning will be most welcome! The major bonus is that it's transparent to the user. The downside is I hardly dare risk and changes, as who knows what might happen.
It just occurred to me that I hadn't enabled 'best answer'....mainly because I think I had given up the last time I looked at it.
I seem to be unable to add "Q&A Forums" role to the users rank. I can't see an option.
Equally in Categories I can't see an option.
In permissions I don't have a "Q&A Forums" role.
You are right. I don't see those in standard Misago.
But you can create category role and name it "Q&A user". Then give it those permissions (skip rest of form):
Same with "Q&A Moderator":
Then create new user role "Q&A User", don't set any permissions on this role, but grant it "Q&A User" role in categories users should be able to select replies as solutions.
Likewise create new user role "Q&A Moderator" but use "Q&A Moderator" role in categories.
I don't seem to have a "Best Answer" section in creating a role.
Its only in category roles. But you should already have both "Q&A user" and "Q&A moderator" roles in category roles created for you because while user roles for Q&A don't exist by default, the category roles do.
So:
I have those in category roles. But I can't see how to make them show up as an option...and I can't see how to create a role without a best answer section in role creation dialogue.
I think this might be where I got to before, when I gave up.
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Your instructions worked. Thank you for that!
I would never have worked it out.
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Yeah, its terrible. In future I will make the "can change best answer choice" and "time to change best answer choice" permissions on user group, and have extra "let users select best answers in their threads" option on category. Not as powerful as current system, but much simpler and should cover 99% of cases.
Best answer is now working for me. Thank you very much for your help.
From a use perspective, it would be nice if marking a best answer also added a link to that post, directly below the first topic in the thread. Where the thread spreads over several pages, this would allow a new viewer to quickly find the best answer. That's a wish, not a must have. It works as it is.
Thank you for all your work.
There's a shortcut in shortcuts menu:
That does it!
