Sending eCards from a private board

[jdh]

The new e-card feature is really cool, but it seems that users who are not already logged into the board are unable to view their ecards.

Basically, I'm running a private members-only system. Users without passwords are basically dumped right into the login screen -- no userid, no access.

Unfortunately, this seems to get in the way of e-card delivery. When a user clicks the link to pickup their e-card, they are presented with the forum login screen. Even if they can login with their userid, they actually get a 404 error (which may be a result of some URL-rewriting going on somewhere...).

However, more importantly, ecards cannot be sent to users who are not members of the forums -- a feature that I would like people to be able to use.

If I go into my main AdminCP and turn on "Can View Forums" for the Unregistered/NotLoggedIn usergroup, everything works just fine.

Any ideas on a quick mod I could make to the code that would enable this capability?

Your global forum permissions are going to be taken into account, so if you don't allow guests to view your forum then they're not going to be able to view anything related to vB.

[jdh]

That's kind of what I suspected, but I'm hoping that there may be a simple workaround for this... Basically, a mod to allow for "public" e-Cards... Effectively making it ignore permissions for that one routine (accessing the eCard URL, entering the passcode and viewing the eCard).

If not, is it possible that we could see something on this in a future release?

It would require more hacking of the default vB files, so that won't be added by default.