[support] FORUM permission and moderation granularity

Cog Rusty cog.rusty at gmail.com
Mon Sep 24 21:14:34 UTC 2007


On 9/24/07, Davide Galletti <davide at davide.galletti.name> wrote:
>
>  Cog Rusty ha scritto:
>  On 9/24/07, Davide Galletti <davide at davide.galletti.name> wrote:
>
>
>  Hi all,
>
> in the site I am building there are different sections each accessible
> to a different groups of users
> identified by different roles; users can have more than one role. I am
> using Taxonomy Access Control
> but I do not manage to restrict access to Forums.
> What I would like is:
>  user with role X can read/write on Forum X
>  user with role X, Y can read/write on Forum X and Y
> and so on ...
> I defined Taxonomy Access Permission using the term that is created
> automatically
> when you create a Forum but it doesn't seem to work...
> If the Forum and the Term of the Forum Vocabulary are named "X" I have set
> Taxonomy access permissions for Anonymous and Authenticated roles as
> follows:
>  Show-Deny Update-Deny Delete-Deny
> And for the role "X":
>  Show-Allow Update-Allow Delete-Deny List
> When log in as a user with role "X" and I try to add a new Forum Topic
> the drop-down list of Forums is empty!
> I manage to reply to a Topic added by the admin.
> Any hints?
>
>
> There is also a "Create" permission in TAC, which controls the terms
> appearing in the category selection dropdown list for tagging the
> node.
>  It was already set; I just forgot to tell...
>  The category selection dropdown list is empty for the user with role X and
> normally filled
>  for the admin; I have given the role X all possible permssions related to
> forums and comments
>  but still the dropdown is empty !
>
>  The role also needs "create" and "edit own" general permissions
> in admin/user/access.
>
>  Added, but didn't make any difference.


Hmm...If you set these general permissions for the "forum topic" node
type and didn't work, the only other suggestion I have is to try the
"Rebuild permissions" in /admin/content/node-settings (only Drupal 5).


>  You may also want to disable the "Update" TAC permission if you don't
> want that role to be able to edit *anyone's* posts. That one is only
> good for moderators. It is not needed for privileged "readers".
>
>
>
>
>  Second issue: is it possible to have one Forum moderated and another one
> not moderated
> on different sections?
>
>  You mean with a different URL? Not out of the box as far as I know.
> Perhaps you could fake a forum using a custom-made "forum" front page
> with assigned views, a content type and categories.
>
>  Thanks for the suggestions!
>
>  Regards
>
>
>  Davide
>
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