Guild rank permissions change via code only

[kitherel]

Hi,

Has anyone got any addons which change guild rank permissions without the need to click stuff in the interface? Or know if/how I can edit the rank permissions via LUA.

The scenario i'm looking at is being able trigger the removal of guild withdrawal permissions from certain ranks via an addon. I'm looking at having this triggered during logoff/quit and have the pre-hooks working for that, therefore I dont want any further gui interaction to be necessary.

Any advice or pointers would be appreciated.

Regards,

Kith

[Rhyono]

Originally Posted by kitherel The scenario i'm looking at is being able trigger the removal of guild withdrawal permissions from certain ranks via an addon. I'm looking at having this triggered during logoff/quit and have the pre-hooks working for that, therefore I dont want any further gui interaction to be necessary.

So for example: rank X has withdrawal permissions while you are logged in, but when you log off, you want to turn it off for them?

I don't have permission editing in any of the guilds I'm in, so I can't test things.

I'm not sure if this function is relevant: ComposeGuildRankPermissions

[kitherel]

Hi Rhyono,

Yes, exactly that, to protect guild bank when not logged on, have addon that monitors removals etc but it wont be in effect when our guild leader logs off.

I made a guild for testing purposes and have looked at the function:

ComposeGuildRankPermissions(number permissions, number permission, boolean enabled)

I cant quite fathom out if this is actually setting a change, or just pending the change, but moreover, since it doesn't have a parameter for the guild, how do I set a guild i'm working with first?

Appreciate your suggestion and i'll keep digging also.

Regards,

Kith

[Dolgubon]

The only person who can change guild permissions is the GM, and you can only be GM of one guild, so it is possible that the function is correct.

[kitherel]

After a lot of digging around, I came up with the following code which I feel should do what I wanted and although the code doesn't produce any LUA errors, doesnt appear to update the permissions as desired:

  tmpRank = ZO_Object.New(ZO_GuildRank_Shared)
  tmpRank.guildId = 5
  tmpRank.name = GetFinalGuildRankName(tmpRank.guildId, 2) 
  tmpRank.iconIndex = GetGuildRankIconIndex(tmpRank.guildId, 2) 
  tmpRank.permissionSet = {} 
  for i = 1, GetNumGuildPermissions() do 
    tmpRank.permissionSet[i] = DoesGuildRankHavePermission(tmpRank.guildId, 2, i) 
  end
  --asign new permissions
  for i = 1, GetNumGuildPermissions() do
    if i == 16 then 
      newPermissions = ComposeGuildRankPermissions(newPermissions, i, false)
    else
      newPermissions = ComposeGuildRankPermissions(newPermissions, i, tmpRank.permissionSet[i])
    end
  end
  InitializePendingGuildRanks(2)
  AddPendingGuildRank(2, tmpRank.name, newPermissions, tmpRank.iconIndex)
  SavePendingGuildRanks()

If my guild (ID 5) rank 2, permission 16 (Guild bank removal) are set in the GUI to enabled (true) the code above doesn't update it to false but i'm at a loss as to why.

Any ideas anyone ? =) I'm still trying to scout through the base UI source to see if the guild rank is technically removed and re-added rather than overwritten.

Regards,

Kith