[drupal-devel] [bug] User feedback if commenting on a closed node

[TDobes]

Issue status update for http://drupal.org/node/10417

 Project:      Drupal
 Version:      cvs
 Component:    comment.module
 Category:     bug reports
 Priority:     normal
 Assigned to:  killes at www.drop.org
 Reported by:  killes at www.drop.org
 Updated by:   TDobes
 Status:       patch

+1 from me too... although with one minor complaint: we want to say
"post" rather than "posts" in the error message.
Although this is a rare case, it is one users may sometimes
encounter... and a total lack of feedback as we have now is bad.


TDobes



Previous comments:
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August 28, 2004 - 13:37 : killes at www.drop.org

Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/comment_2.diff (701 bytes)

If a user (for whatever reason) tries to post to a node which doesn't
allow this, he currently doesn't get an error message. This patch fixes
this.


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September 5, 2004 - 01:02 : killes at www.drop.org

recategorizing to show up in the patch queue.


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September 13, 2004 - 20:42 : Steven

I'm not 100% sure about this patch. We don't normally cater to
inaccessible forms. I suppose the comment form is a candidate, when a
moderator disables commenting on a (heated?) topic while people are
still typing replies.
But are there more probably situations like this out there?


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September 14, 2004 - 00:37 : killes at www.drop.org

As you mentioned the comment form isn't neccessarily inaccessible, the
sending of the comment might become later. We should present a
meaningfull message to the user in that case. I am developing a module
where you can only comment for a limited amount of time, so no message
is actually confusing.


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September 14, 2004 - 15:03 : Dries

I don't think this needs fixing.


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September 14, 2004 - 15:17 : killes at www.drop.org

I disagree. The user doesn't get a 403 or anything, just an empty "Post
comment" page.Tha's bad usability.


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October 14, 2004 - 16:54 : drumm

+1
Although it is a rare case, this is a really simple fix that might as
well go in.


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March 13, 2005 - 15:02 : killes at www.drop.org

Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/comment_2_0.diff (723 bytes)

Updated to cvs. Better wording.