By lannygoodman on

hi,

i just finished upgrading from 6.22 to 7.x and it went pretty smoothly. however our forum (our primary drupal use) now sports the following message when one clicks on the forums link in the menu we have set up "You are not allowed to post new content in the forum." this is after i have logged in as the user no. 1 or as an administrator or as a registered user. it is causing confusion and it shouldn't be showing up. any suggestions? thanks.

lanny goodman

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MeInc’s picture

MeInc commented

Are permissions enabled for users to post content on forum?

lannygoodman’s picture

lannygoodman commented

yes, permissions are set for authorized members, moderators and administrators to post. i get the message even for myself.

lannygoodman’s picture

lannygoodman commented

This notice is really inhibiting forum participation. Does anyone have a suggestion? Thanks.

ericprado’s picture

ericprado commented

Does it mean that only admin can post topics on forum? How can users participate more in forum? I am just disoriented.Yea I agree with you. Could you share what solution you have made?

ashoksharma’s picture

ashoksharma commented

lannygoodman, I also having the same problem.
If you sorted out the problem, please give me the solution.

jpmizell’s picture

jpmizell commented

Same trouble here - D6-D7 upgrade soured my forums (though I had OG installed.. now it's uninstalled and forums are a no go.)

j9’s picture

j9 commented

I hate to say it but they only way Ive found it to hack the forum.module.

I think it is a bug because Ive allowed anonymous access to Create new forum topics and still it says they have to log in.

I let anonymous users post to my forum and when they go to the forum, it says "Log in to post new content..." and they click on "Log in" and it takes them to the page where you log in except Ive disabled user registrations because it is an anonymous only forum, and they cannot register and dont know how to log in and think they are supposed to log in.

So, for addressing logged in users, I go to the modules/forum/forum.module and go to line 192 and change it to read something like this:

'title' => t('-----Put your new text here-----'),

mahpari’s picture

mahpari commented

Is there any solution for this problem!?

jj0914’s picture

jj0914 commented

Im having the same issue, all permissions are set properly and that message is still showing which is weird.

Im using Drupal 7.23

darrenlambert’s picture

darrenlambert commented

I'm having the same problem. Must be a bug in the forum module.
I'll see if I can raise a ticket for it.

leehunter’s picture

leehunter commented

I had this problem in a site that had been upgraded from D5 to D7. This worked for me: https://drupal.org/comment/7273122#comment-7273122