[support] FORUM permission and moderation granularity

[Shyamala]

Did you try forum_access module.

Shyamala
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cog Rusty" <cog.rusty at gmail.com>
To: <support at drupal.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 2:44 AM
Subject: Re: [support] FORUM permission and moderation granularity


> 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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