Private message Board
Hi,
I am a newbie to drupal and already addicted to it although I am finding it a bit of an uphill struggle at the moment. I would like to build an application whereby a registered user can post a project on a projects page (something like Volunteers to refurbish Scout Hut in Bristol) to which other registered users could respond giving contact details and available skills. I realise this could be done by requesting private messages but I was thinking of something a little more ambitious like a private message board for that particular project. Is there already a module that can do this? If not will somebody be so kind as to give me some pointers as how to achieve this or pass on some code if they have already incorporated this type of thing into their own site. Sorry if all this sounds a bit lame but I have tried to figure it out by myself and am getting absolutely nowhere.
Thanks
forum access?
If you have a different user group for each project, you can make a board and using the forum_access module give that role access to a particular board. and you can use http://drupal.org/project/autoassignrole - which the user him/her self grants themself a role.
~silverwing
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Private message board
Thanks for that. I understand in principle how it works but cannot actually achieve it. I suppose a blow by blow description is out of the question?
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By the way I am using Drupal5
By the way I am using Drupal5 for which there seems to be very little in the way of Tut's compared to 4.7
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This could be achieved by
This could be achieved by using Organic Groups module, or the Forum Access/ACL modules --
http://drupal.org/project/og
http://drupal.org/project/forum_access
http://drupal.org/project/acl
Really, it depends on how you'd want to structure it.
I'd probably try OG first.
Cheers,
Bill
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I don't think I explained what I'm trying to do properly
Thanks for that but I don't think I explained what I am trying to achieve properly which is: The original poster, posts a project (Volunteers wanted to refurbish Scout hut in Bristol) to which others reply with their contact details (Hi I'm Joe Bloggs, I'm a Carpenter and available Saturday mornings Telephone me on 0123-456789) and (Hi I'm Fred Smith, I'm a Painter and Decorator and I'm prepared to lend you a hand. You can contact me most evenings after 7pm on 0987-654321 ) The original project poster is the only person who would be able to see all the replies while Joe Bloggs would never be able to see Fred Smiths post and vice versa. It's very similar to the way Private message boards work on Freelance sites or another example is a bidding system on auction sites. Perhaps I am expecting too much, but this is for charity and I really would appreciate it if you guys could put your thinking caps on for me. I'm not usually this stupid but at the moment my brain seems to be working on overload.
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Help
Help please. Can it be done with modules or am I wasting my time.
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Can it be done?
I guess that's a NO then?
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a possibility
saw your "newbie forum" post, leading me back here...
are you looking for something like a "drop-box" in a voting booth, or similar for FTP (PUT, no GET)? if so, you may wish to look at the whisper module (sealed comments). rather intriguing, but very much still under development.
Just might be what I am looking for.
Thanks for that. Given the explanation of what it is capable of, it just might be what I am looking for. I've downloaded it and will have a play with it tonight.
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Bugger! It only works with core comments.
Looks like it is exactly what I was looking for accept that it only works with core comments and not forum comments. So it's either a big rethink on my part or hope that one of you gurus can come up with something.
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The forum module uses the
The forum module uses the core comment module, so it should work.
Alternately, you could use cck to create a new content type, and then use views to format how the discussions based on that content type get displayed -- that could allow you to use the whisper module.
Cheers,
Bill
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It is obviously me
It is obviously something I am doing wrong or it doesn't work. It will give you the option to seal comments but doesn't actually stop them from being opened by a registered user who has access to post a comment.
I've tried making a different content type and allowing comments and sealing comments but get the same result. There just does not seem to be anyway of stopping one authorised user who has permission to write a comment from viewing a comment posted by another authorised user. The idea behind this is a privacy issue between volunteers. You may be willing to volunteer for something but want your contact details kept private. Open boards don't work we have tried it; people get cold called to death.
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trying again
wondering if the DrupalEd project might help for ideas? thinking about assignments as projects...
you may want to leave a comment/issue/support request at the project to see if the maintainer or others using the module can clarify what you should be seeing. note that forum access module is another access control-type module, and there may be conflicts. try disabling that, if you are not using it.
hmm...see one possible idea (or more)
okay, so in drupal6 i'm running the 'friends' module and the 'notice feed' - these simulate facebook style features (jim and suzy are now friends - that kind of mini-feed)
...but what it also does is display a corkboard for comments within a user's own profile ONLY visible to friends...they can comment and so on (and these can be threaded, and they're not visible to non-friends etc)
wonder if you could contact that dev or just pull the code and see if the same approach might be applied to a 'project node' (perhaps a new content type?)
alternatively, you may want to dig into the civicrm modules and see how they interact with drupal to produce these same effects - sounds like they may already be doing what you're after
Sorry we must have posted at the same time.
Again thanks for that, definitely worth a go although I'm a little reluctant to dive into Drupal6 as I am just starting to see light at the end of the tunnel with 5. I cannot believe that nobody hasn't required this facility before. I think it has to be me with the seal comments module because nobody else seems to have had a problem with it. I just cannot fathom out what I am doing wrong. Thanks again.
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Woohoo! I'm starting to get somewhere.
I can't believe it I'm finally starting to get somewhere and have it working in principle. I now need to remove the facility for replying to a comment. I've searched high and low to find where the link resides but cannot find it, it's not in comment or any include file that I can find. Does anybody know which file it is in? Thanks in advance. This is 5 by the way.
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uh, do you mean comments in general?
if so, just go to content types, select this type and disable comments completely...not sure exactly what you mean though (maybe this is it)
The reply link
No the reply link I am talking about is the one at the bottom of a comment. So from the start someone posts a topic which then attracts a comment if you open that comment there will be a reply link the same as the ones on this very thread;that's the beggar I'm after. I need to keep the comment but remove the option to reply to that comment. So all comments are separate. Does that make sense?
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okay, a different direction completely...
have you looked at the wishlist module? it does NOT support actual ecommerce transactions, just a way for somebody to say "i need this" and others can contribute and once they've done that, the option to provide closes (e.g i need a pencil, 10 people view, 1 provides, all others see want for pencil as closed')
perhaps you could ping the dev or look at it and see if there could be a commenting element that 'closes' when need closes, period. that way people could be asking questions, etc...
might be worth a look...and there are versions going back to d5 i believe...
Thanks
Thanks that's a good idea. I have already hacked this thing to death and while it's fragile to say the least, it's working. I have looked at every file now but cannot find that damn link anywhere. If I could take it out or kill it; it would be an easy solution. It's got me completely baffled as to where it can be.
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