Posted by zaineyma on December 14, 2012 at 12:23pm
Hello,
We use Drupal Version 6.14 on our company intranet. We host our own intranet on a Unix based Virtual ESX Server. Now, we have had a requirement by one department to add a forum onto our intranet which is restricted to their department only. Is this possible to do using this Drupal version we have? Is there an addon/plugin we can activate/use? Any assistance with this would be very much appreciated.
Many thanks in advance.
Ray
Comments
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is the department their own role?
core forum.module with forum access.module or taxonomy access module may get you there.
Department Forum
Yes the department is their own role (hoping i understood that correctly). I dont understand the second part of your comment, please advise. Thank you.
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investigate the core forum.module (ships with drupal)
and the following contributed modules: forum access and/or taxonomy access
of of which may solve the permissions issue per role (department).
Forums Setup
Hello,
I am in the process of setting up a forum on our company intranet. I access our admin area and have checked the forum box which now gives me the option to add a forum. I wanted to be sure and ask that if in forums I click on add forum that will simply add the forum to a page on the site? also can somebody explain what add container means? how can i edit permissions and access to this forum? can I also set it up so that users must login to post comments?
Please advise and many thanks in advance.
Create Forum
I ran through a test forum, but once saved where does it publish to? any help would be much apperciated, thank you.
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a container is what holds forums.
Container - Musical Instruments
forum - saxophone
forum - drums
forum - guitar
forum - bass
permissions are set per role in administer -> permissions. if you need finer grained permissions, investigate modules such as forum access, taxonomy access in contrib.
forums are listed on the forum overview page, no different than here on drupal.org: http://drupal.org/forum
Forum Location
Hi,
Many thanks for the replies which I understand. One issue I have is that i create a container and some forums then when i go to our pages on our intranet I cannot see them anywhere. Is there a default location or somewhere where it should be? do I need to do something in addition to publish the forums to our site?
Please advise and again many thanks.
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perhaps: http://drupal.org/node/796472 will aid. You can also enable the core help.module which provides internal documentation for core features.
all resolved
thank you, i got it all now, many thanks for your help, case closed!