In "admin/content/types/FAQ" I have set "Default comment setting" to disabled. The only role which has "administer comments" authority is administrator. However, when viewing detail FAQ pages as a basic authenticated user, I can add comments.

We are using the following configuration:

Questions
Page layout: Clicking on question takes user to answer further down the page
Questions listing style: Ordered list
Use answer teaser: No
Show node links: No
"Back to Top" link text: Back to top
Disable question links to nodes: No
Default Sorting for Non-Weighted FAQs: Date Descending

Categories
Categorize questions: No

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nancydru’s picture

nancydru
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commented

Well, this would be a core Drupal problem. FAQ really doesn't do anything with comments.

However, my guess is that you added some FAQs before you changed the default comment setting and those have comments set to allowed. You'll need to manually change those (or run a query to set their comment field in the node table to 0).

sgdev’s picture

sgdev commented

Yes that was it ... I added a couple of FAQs prior to turning off the comments. Went in to the DB and manually set them to 0 and it's all good.

I'm wondering if somewhere in basic Drupal documentation it says changing the comments settings on a content type does not impact pre-existing nodes? It makes sense that it should work this way, given there might be content that already has comments attached. However it's not as intuitive when creating a new content type.

stella’s picture

stella commented
Category: bug » support
Status: Active » Fixed
Anonymous’s picture

Anonymous (not verified) commented
Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

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