Help with PEX and Essentials Chat

Hi. I recently started a server and I started with Groupmanager. Everything was going great, but I installed these two plugins and it completely wiped all my ranks off. I switched to PermissionsEx and I am still having trouble figuring it out. This is the permissions yml, http://pastebin.com/PU9kZCQN. I only have one prefix, apparently, and it's [default]. This is my EssentialsChat part, http://pastebin.com/EPCL21Gr. Some players join the server but they hardly have any access to commands unless I op them, which I am not going to do. Help would be strongly appreciated. Thanks.

 

You cannot expect PEX or any other plugin to load a .yml file that is not formatted correctly.

Online YAML Parser

You need to make sure there are zero formatting errors before trying to start your server loading a .yml file.

One VERY quick look and I noticed you were missing a space between "default: true"

Use the link I gave you to help yourself find/fix all format errors.

LHammonds

 

Thanks. I was using a YouTube tutorial and it didn't work, but thanks again for the help. I'm testing it out now.

I spaced it but in the YAML parser, I keep getting this error:
ERROR: mapping values are not allowed here in "<unicode string>", line 8, column 18: permissions: ^
I have no idea what it means. Would I have to get rid of the colon, or something else?

 

RedPanda10 You had a bit overspaced your permissions, had inheritance of non-existent groups, forgot space between default: and true/false, forgot space between prefix: and actual prefix and forgot a colon after some groups. I have fixed it for you - http://pastebin.com/8kUSviUN

 

Thank you so much!

Edit: I added your edit to my permissions.yml, but now the prefixes are messed up. The Owner prefix is just [Owner] in gray. Same with all the other groups. Any idea?

 

The "schema version" entry in your file tells me you are using PEX 1.22 or higher and your options are in the wrong place. You should also assign rank priorities.

Something else you might want to consider is the use of suffix...such as everyone has a rank which has a prefix....but staff members also have another group attached to them that adds a suffix.

Try this and see how it does:

pastebin.com

permissions.yml

Code:

groups:
  TaterTot:
    permissions:
    - essentials.tpa
    - essentials.tpaccept
    - essentials.tpdeny
    - essentials.me
    - essentials.help
    - essentials.sethome
    - essentials.home
    - essentials.spawn
    - essentials.chat.color
    - spleef.join.1
    - spleef.start
    - sg.arena.join.*
    - sg.arena.join.1
    - sg.arena.join
    - sg.arena.vote
    - sg.lobby.join
    - essentials.afk
    - essentials.sell
    - essentials.pay
    - essentials.clearinventory
    - kits.spawn.Fire
    - kits.spawn.Water
    - kits.spawn.Earth
    - kits.spawn.Air
    - multiverse.portal.access.*
    - essentials.warp
    - essentials.warp.list
    - essentials.warp.*
    - essentials.sethome
    - mobarena.use.join
    - mobarena.use.leave
    - mobarena.use.spec
    - mobarena.use.arenalist
    - mobarena.use.playerlist
    - kits.spawn.Slender
    - kits.spawn.Survivor
    - essentials.warp.SlenderSpawn
    - plotme.use
    - chairs.sit
    - usb.island.*
    - usb.party.*
    - essentials.tpahere
    - marry.default
    options:
      default: true
      prefix: '&e[&9TaterTot&e]&6'
      rank: '999'
  Potato:
    inheritance:
    - TaterTot
    permissions:
    - essentials.seen
    - essentials.msg
    - essentials.back
    - essentials.back.ondeath
    options:
      prefix: '&2[&5Potato&2]'
      rank: '800'
  Donator:
    inheritance: 
    - Potato
    permissions:
    - essentials.fly
    - essentials.hat
    - disguisecraft.mob.*
    - disguisecraft.player.*
    - disguisecraft.object.*
    - essentials.fireball
    - essentials.lightning
    - essentials.kittycannon
    - essentials.feed
    - essentials.nick
    - essentials.nick.color
    options:
      prefix: '&a[&9PotatoPlus&a]'
      rank: '700'
  UDonator:
    inheritance: 
    - Donator
    permissions:
    - essentials.gamemode
    - essentials.give
    - bending.water.Bloodbending
    - essentials.nick.format
    - essentials.nick.magic
    options:
      prefix: '&a[&3ULTRA&9Potato&a]'
      rank: '600'
  Moderator:
    inheritance: 
    - UDonator
    permissions:
    - essentials.warps.*
    - essentials.tp
    - essentials.tphere
    - essentials.mute
    - essentials.kick
    - essentials.socialspy
    - essentials.vanish
    - essentials.vanish.effect
    - enchantplus.*
    - essentials.tphere
    - marry.*
    options:
      prefix: '&5[&3Judge&aPotato&5]'
      rank: '400'
  Admin:
    inheritance: 
    - Moderator
    permissions:
    - essentials.*
    - worldedit.*
    options:
      prefix: '&c[Ad&9m&1in&c]'
      rank: '300'
  Owner2:
    permissions:
    - '*'
    options:
      prefix: '&9/[&6CO &bP&6o&at&5a&1t&9o&2]\'
      rank: '200'
  Owner:
    permissions:
    - '*'
    options:
      prefix: '&9/[&6Owner &bP&6o&at&5a&1t&9o&2]\'
      rank: '100'
schema-version: 1

 

Thank you so much! It finally works! I think it could be because of the EssentialsChat. I'll toggle that off. Thanks again!
EDIT: I toggled off EssentialsChat (heres my pastebin http://pastebin.com/516JrW46) but it still doesn't toggle off the prefix [Owner], [Owner2] etc.