By ianr on

I turned on the forum module, but the first thing I went looking for - access control - wasn't there! I wanted to have some parts of the forum for 'senior members' only, the rest for normal users.

After lots of looking around, I found http://drupal.org/project/tac_lite - Taxonomy Access Control Lite. As drupal does the forum as a vocab, it only took a few seconds to make a new container and forum that only members of a certain role could see and use..

So this problem is solved, and I thought I'd do a quick post in case anyone else was searching for a simple solution..

Of course, the wider issue of the drupal forum being no where near as good as the dedicated ones remain, but that is for another day...

Ian

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kriskd commented

Did you look at the Forum Access mod?

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ianr commented

Nope - I didn't find that one! One of the problems with drupal is that there are so many ways to do so many things, and it can be very very hard to find the right one..

For example, that module is called "forum access" - a good name. Yet if I do a search on forum access (which I had done)) ie http://drupal.org/search/node/forum+access - it is not is not returned in the first, second, third, or fourth page.. In fact, I don't know where it would have come in the search as I'm not patient enough to find out!

No wonder I didn't find it...

I'll have a look at, as it might be better than what I've done.