TL;DR Kier's product still sucks ass, after nearly 11 years.Yes, but that is not the issue.
To mass remove posting permissions we created a new User Group, made everyone a member, and then had them cease to be a member when they posted in that thread. Then, once things were over we deleted that User Group.
Unfortunately, XF appears to be just as stupid as ever and deleting a User Group doesn't appear to actually do anything but remove the ability to interact with said User Group.
So everyone who was still in that User Group at the time the User Group was removed still lacks posting permissions and nothing can be done about it via the Admin panel. The permissions are still there, and membership in the User Group is still there in the individual user account record. But the User Group having been deleted means that this can't be fixed except with actual database/code shenanigans (as opposed to via the Admin panel).
DELETE FROM groupmemberships WHERE GID=bullshitgroupnum;
Basically, yes. And I've already done everything that can be done via the Admin panel. So fixing this is going to have to wait until someone with actual server access comes along and fixes things.TL;DR Kier's product still sucks ass, after nearly 11 years.
No phpmyadmin for you guys?Basically, yes. And I've already done everything that can be done via the Admin panel. So fixing this is going to have to wait until someone with actual server access comes along and fixes things.
Nope, tried that.I don't suppose you could just make the usergroup again with the same name and everything?
So, yeah, I googled a bit and it looks like your problem table should be called xf_user_group_relation, you could select the id of the broken group, then execute the delete statement.We have a ticket in to xenforo while our tech ops person is asleep, I'm not tech savvy enough to want to risk logging in to root in order to figure this out from there at risk of blowing things up worse. We will keep you all updated.
Everything seems to be working well now. Thank you.
Same here.Everything seems to be working well now. Thank you.
Americans have Murphy's Law: "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong."Obligatory, In Soviet Union, April Fools you! comment.