Wizard Commands for Myrddin's Bulletin Board 4.0.6
+bbnewgroup <title> Creates a new group.
+bbcleargroup <#> Clears group <#> and all it's messages.
+bblock <#>=<lock>/<key> Locks group <#>. Lock can be 'flag' or an attribute name.
Examples: +bblock 4=flag/wizard
+bblock 5=race/were
+bbwritelock <#>=<lock>/<key> Same as above, but controls who may write to the group.
+bbconfig Shows values of all config parameters.
See below for help on config parameters and how to set them.
Expanded Help on Group Locks for Myrddin's Bulletin Board
A few notes about locking BB Groups.
The +bblock/+bbwritelock commands are only meant to take care of the simplest of locks. There is simply no way to write one bblock'ing command that can deal with all the different ways people want to lock their BB Groups, and it certainly isn't practical to keep adding different locking commands for each locking method I come across.
Coders can set up locks on Groups that are as customized or exotic as you like quite easily, however. Each Group has its own object. If you look inside the global BBS object, you'll see them. Each Group object has a pair of attributes that control who may read and who may write to that Group. The attributes are named CANREAD and CANWRITE, respectively. The dbref of the player attempting to read/write is passed to the appropriate attribute as %0. As long as the attribute returns a non-zero result, the player can read/write.
CANREAD Examples:
CANREAD: 1 Anyone can read
CANREAD: hasflag(%0,wizard) Only wizards can read
CANREAD: strmatch(name(%0),*z*) Only characters with a 'z' in their name can read
Configuration Parameters for Myrddin's Bulletin Board 4.0.6
There are two types of configuration parameters: global and group. Global configuration parameters affect the BB system as a whole, while group
configuration parameters affect a single Group.
To set a global parameter:
+bbconfig <param>=<value> Sets global config parameter.
Global Parameters:
timeout This sets the default timeout (in days) for any new groups created. A timeout of '0' means messages won't timeout. (ex. +bbconfig timeout=30)
autotimeout If you don't have a way to trigger the TR_TIMEOUT attribute on the bbpocket (daily) to clean out expired messages, you can use the autotimeout param instead. Setting this param 'on' enables the BB's built in timer. Set this param to 'off' to disable.
To set a Group parameter:
+bbconfig <#>/<param>=<value> Sets config parameter for board <#>.
Group Parameters:
anonymous Setting this value turns the Group 'anonymous'. This means that any future posting's 'Author' field will have the value of this param instead of the name of the author. Wizards will also see the actual name of author. (examples: +bbconfig newspaper/anonymous=NewsPaper Staff, +bbconfig house rules/anonymous=The Staff)
timeout Sets the default timeout value for the Group. Any new messages will have this new value. A value of '0' means messages won't timeout.
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