Hi, May u have a beautiful day. Today just a work around came to my mind about this very important feature.
At this point of time any other module don't know that what a ST friend or Group member is. Only Smart-thinker modules can know it.
So here is the logic :
We can define our own custom rights just like 'registered users' and 'subscribers' in dnn. So we may control the logic of verifying those custom rights (a database query for friends or a group member etc).
if a module or a part of a module will be written that add two access rights i.e. 'Friends' and 'Group members' along with the standard rights in dnn (registered users and subscribers) then world will be very easy for us.
i think UltraGallery has written in a way that it supports all DNN Level access rights. So if we check (our defined) checkbox 'Group member' access right in SETTINGS of a group's UMG or video module then it'll allow all the members of that group to upload videos and photos (just like it allow registered users or UltraGallery managers etc).
It'll really be great if we can make it possible. And this will make ST module even more compatible with other modules as far as access rights is concerned. And we don't have to ask other module owners for making any change for ST friends or group. It'll be defined at DNN level.
By this way, in future we can add many more functionalities like only friends can view my videos and photos etc.
I am not good at simplifying the explanation. Are you guys getting me ?
Rodney will it be possible at your side to do this ?
What do you think about it ?