Hello Maverick

First of all thanks for a very good Forum extension for Joomla. I have installed it, configured permissions and everything works fine except two thinks. I want to use moderated forum with moderated topics, therefore permissions are setup as follows:

Standard registered user is allowed to:
View, Reply to Topics, View Replies and Rate (Like/Dislike) – but he is not allowed to create new topics.

Forum admin is allowed to:
Create, Delete, Edit, Edit Own, Edit State, Edit Own State, View, Reply to Topics, View Replies and Rate (Like/Dislike)

Problem No 1

In this configuration Standard registered user can reply via “Post your reply” text window at the end of the page followed by pressing “Post Reply” button. He can reply via “Quick Reply” button displayed under each reply as well (which moves the page to “Post your reply” text window again (followed by pressing “Post Reply” button).

However when he push “Reply” button displayed under each reply, the new reply windows appears, but in this case after pressing the “Save” button he gets the warning, that saving is not permitted.

In a case a Standard registered user gets a “Create” permission this problem disappeared. However I don’t want to give Standard registered user a permission to create new topic.

This is a problem for me, because users will not distinguish between "Reply" and "Quick Reply" button and in case of "Reply" button they will get an error. I suppose there is some ACL bug in the code and the temporary workaround could be hiding a "Reply" button. Could you please give me your advice?

Problem No 2

When I login as a Forum admin with permission described above the “Actions” button appears under each reply with three options: Edit, Unpublish and Trash. If I try to edit any reply posted by me I can do it and save changes without any problem. However in case I try to edit reply of Standard registered user I get the error 403 page stating that I haven’t permissions to do it.

Additional question

How can I remove buttons under Post your reply text window (Article, Page Break, Read More and ToogleEditor buttons). I am using standard Joomla Editor-TinyMCE.

I hope my description is not very confusing. I have double checked all permissions and all is done as described above. Therefore I will appreciate your help.

With regards

David