My b2evolution Version: 2.x

Thank you very much for this application, I'm really enjoying setting it up and using it, it's going to be great for my needs. I'm basically using it like a research notebook with a small set of users who can access privileged content and a larger set who see more general reference material.

I'm using version 2.4.1, and the b2eviant skin. The 2.4.1 version was automatically installable by my hosting service, as an option.

Here's one small problem that I've encountered in testing:

I created a new group named "Delta" and populated it with three users. I wrote some blog entries as the primary owner/user, and set some of those entries to "protected" status.

The 3 user ID's in the Delta group could not see the protected content.

After doing a lot of searching I read elsewhere in this forum that the word "members" is not synonymous with "users", and that I would have to change administrative permissions settings to "Advanced" to see what "members" were, and to allow my registered "users" to see the protected content.

This still didn't work. So then on a hunch, I moved the users out of the "Delta" group into the b2evolution predefined "Basic" group, and then it did work.

So it looks like admin created groups can not see protected content, even if Advanced Permissions is turned on.

Or perhaps I'm missing a method of allowing that.

If so, I do wonder if all of this could be simplified for newcomer setup and new user purposes, so that protected content is visible to all registered users, rather than the special unseen category of members. Since most of us intuitively (and wrongly) assume they are the same thing when we see the "Protected (Members only)" option while writing a post, and we don't know about the "Advanced Permissions" toggle.

Thanks again.