I have just posted a query about legacy roles. I don't know if this question is related to it or not.
My original plan for the site that I am creating is to lock down all permissions on GUEST to "prohibit". I didn't want them in the site at all. I wanted to set manual authentication, set forcelogin on, hide the guest login button.
The more I read the more I wondered if guest was just a "legacy role" that I shouldn't be using anyway. Then, reading through the permissions and roles documentation I wondered if the "demo teacher" type role might be more appropriate.
Rather than blocking everything to guests I wondered if I could show them, not so much a "subset" of the site but a different version.
What I mean by this is that I might have a front page that shows one forum (a 'demo' one) for one type of user (un-authenticated guests) but would show the 'real' site forum for authenticated guests.
I am sure that I can allow them to see a "subset" of courses. I don't know if I can show them "just what they can access" or if they see all the titles and only access what they have permission for. But if I can show them "just what they have permission for" then I rationalise that I could create a separate front page forum, separate front page block, and allow guests to see these extra ones... and not let anyone else see them... and vice-versa.
Is that at all possible? Is it something done via roles/permissions or can it be done another way?
(if it looks complicated I shall stay with plan A and keep guests outside the gates rather than let them in and keep them on a short lead).
Thanks.
Mark
