Hi,

I'm using Taxonomy Access Control to give super privileges to members of the society my site is for.

One forum is for event announcements.

I would like it so that only Society members can create threads in this forum, (so non members can't get free publicity) but they can post replies (e.g. questions about the event).

I don't know if I have forum access installed (using drupal 5.2) - I don't think so but I already have control over who can see and post to each forum. It's this posting privilege that I need access to at this higher grained level.

Can I do this with the forum control module? Or can you think of any other way that I could control this?

Many thanks,
Gareth Wilden.

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To tell whether you have Forum Access installed, look at admin/build/modules.

FA lets you give Create (forum topic) access to selected roles, and at present, it is unable to restrict posting of comments, which is exactly what you want.

The FA user interface is the "Access control" fieldset on the admin/content/forum/edit/forum/TID pages.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

Drupal 6.2 has the ability to control who can post, etc in a forum.
I'd suggest you upgrade.

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salvis
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Status: Active » Fixed

Feel free to reopen if you want to pursue this further.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

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Vchris commented
Status: Closed (fixed) » Active

I recently update the FA from beta 2 to RC1 (drupal 6).
I have a forum (announcements) where i want users can post comments but not create forum topics. In previous version, works fine but
now i dont have that option. If someone can post a comment, can post a topic too.
Am i missing something?

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salvis
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Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Thank you for hunting down an old thread that matches your topic, but this is really something completely new.

FA before 6.x-1.0-beta2 (or so) was unable to control comment creation. Some saw this as a bug, but actually it was a missing feature that took a long time to implement because it was a complex task.

Well, this long awaited feature has finally arrived and the old behavior is gone.

Please create a new issue if you wish to pursue this further.