By Lindsayk on

Hi All

I have a Forum and want to have a sealed section for members to talk in without guests being able to see, but I still want the guests seeing the normal parts of the forum.
What is the easiest way of doing this ?

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-Anti-’s picture

-Anti- commented

I'm interested in this too, and haven't really looked at it yet.

Two obvious solutions:
http://drupal.org/project/advanced_forum
http://drupal.org/project/forum_access
Yet, apparently both are not quite stable and/or missing important functionality.

I'm curious to see what other suggestions are made.

Just to add, at the moment my only working solution is to use the 'node privacy by role' module to make forum posts visible to 'auth users only' by default, and to create threads for public viewing as necessary (or edit the permissions of existing ones). Usually I would do this to include a thread in a book, or publish it to the front page news.

But it would also be nice to be able to make a couple of entire forums 'public view-only', and all other forums invisible to guests.

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michelle
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http://www.lullabot.com/articles/private_forums_in_drupal_forum_access_v...

re other response: AF won't help you with this.

Michelle

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-Anti- commented

Thanks for the suggestion.

> re other response: AF won't help you with this

Whoops, sorry. I assumed the term 'advanced' would mean it included role permissions for forums, as this is quite a basic feature of standalone forums.

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michelle
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AF isn't a stand alone forum. It's an enhancement for the built in Drupal forums and doesn't duplicate functionality found in other Drupal contrib modules.

Michelle

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Lindsayk commented

Works wonderfully using ACL and Forum Access

Thanks again