Originally written by hombergs.
In wishticket WT335 webschmied suggested to implement a function that makes it possible to shift articles to forums.
Now with Build 100 not only shifting an article to a forum will be possible: additionally shifting articles in the HowTos, Supporttickets, Wishtickets, FAQ, Reviews or Sections will be enabled.
As you can see, the developers are very busy to make OPN the best Content Management System you can get.

Did you think nothing much is happening here? You are greatly mistaken. In Build 100 we will have a remake and a large number of wishtickets will be completed.

Now there are three kinds of threads possible in the forum:
• Messages
• Important messages
• Announcements

Important Messages and Announcements may be locked - in this case no answers are allowed. Announcements are top priority and are listed as the first forum category, followed by Important Messages and the normal messages.

Nicely designed and brandnew icons help to maintain the forums. Viewforum got a new caption and you can mark all threads read. Additionally we got a new user rights system.

Each forum has now got its own general settings. You are free to use this feature, otherwise the global general settings of the forum are default. Thus you can configure each forum according to your special wishes.
When creating new postings or replies to postings you will now have a preview function available.

.....and they are looking good. Our betatesters are reporting the successful upgrade from postnuke version 0.71 and higher to openPHPnuke.

Until now, webmasters can upgrade from MyPhpNuke and PostNuke to openPHPnuke.

More cross upgrades will follow.

Originally written by hombergs, translated by xtreme

... in build 100. This is an update which will be exactly as substantial as the former update containing improved date-stamp facilities.

To be more precise, quite many OPN features have changed in the meantime:

• The module for page-protection is now replaced by a new system of access rights.
• The user groups management has been extended. Now you can specify rights of access for a certain module to a user group. Additionally, a group can inherit another group’s rights. OPN comes along with eight different system-rights. You are free to add up to 24 more special module-rights.
• In the newly released Build 100 the administration area for user-groups is placed in the upper third of the administration menu.
• Then, the user administration in general has been refined: As the page administrator you can activate, modify, and delete user accounts, and of course reactivate formerly deleted accounts. A user can be a member of several user-groups and receive autonomous rights for specified modules.
• In build 100 the administration for users is placed in the upper third of the administration menu, too.
• Diverse administrators will vanish since the former page-protection is replaced, now.

Each module may (but does not necessarily have to) notify the rights-administrators (for group and user) about certain rights. The following are the eight system-rights:
1. read (is the page open to read?)
2. write (can you write on the page?)
3. read bot (is a bot allowed to read the page?)
4. modify (is it allowed to modify an entry in the module-admin?)
5. new (is it allowed to submit a new entry to the module-admin?)
6. delete (is it allowed to delete an entry in the module-admin?)
7. configuration (is it allowed to configure the module?)
8. full admin-rights (equals the rights 4 to 7 plus specific module-admin rights if there are any) along with up to 24 specific module-rights.
System-right number 3 applies only if OPN is able to identify the user as bot.

One more thing: Obviously members of the user-group “webmaster“ always obtain the full admin-rights :) !

Please don’t rave about when build 100 will finally be released… we are working like crazy on modifying the modules to fit the new right-system.

While configuring a new forum and specifying the access-modifications, the following options are open to you:

Level of access (who will be allowed to access the forum)
• anonymous
• registered users only
• moderators/administrators only

type of access (how is the forum displayed, how can it be accessed)
• public
• private
• public (invisible)

Build 99 has the following rules for the accessibility of your forums:
The password-field is invisible now - instead you can rely on OPN's automated password-administration. You won't have to type your password any more.
Type 'public forum' is visible for all users.
Type 'private forum' needs configuration to enable a user to enter.
Type 'public' (invisible) is visible only for the webmaster. If the webmaster publishes the URL, a user can enter the forum.