Anonymous Users to Submit an Application
| Project: | Job Posting |
| Version: | 6.x-1.10 |
| Component: | Miscellaneous |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | 8tropos |
| Status: | closed |
Hello,
I know this issue has been discussed several times before. Still, I would like to give you my personal reason why I think Anonymous Users should be able to submit an application.
We are using this very well and sweet module to post our company jobs on our website. Very simple and straightforward. No complex setups. Just one or more jobs and the ability to submit an application. We don't have any user or community interaction. We only grant information about our organization to the public. No more no less ---- http://www.dommelhofvzw.be
Since we don't have any logged in users, the feature for anonymous users not being able to submit an application is very limiting.
As a matter in fact, its exactly the one essential feature we are missing to have our job posting process fully automated !
And as far as I concern the one way to make this secure is to obligate people to use CAPTCHA in order to use this feature. Spam concern solved...
Awaiting your response and hoping to see this feature in some future release.
Sincerely,
Koen Van Roy
#1
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and particular business case. I have no immediate plans to introduce this feature, though that doesn't mean it won't happen at some point. If you'd like to talk about job_posting module customizations for your website I encourage you to contact me directly and we can discuss further.
#2
How can Anonymous Users can submit application without login?
#3
I'd like to echo the request by 8tropos.
I've used the job_posting module for a few small business sites and it is excellent. However, the lack of an option to allow anonymous posting is a serious drawback. Most small businesses that I've worked with do not want the complexity of adding user log in to their small 4-5 page sites.
It would be wonderful to see an extra permission set for submitting applications. This would allow site administrators to create or select roles that can submit jobs. This would also allow the 'Anonymous' role to be selected.
CAPTCHA could be integrated as a way to reduce spam. I do not see this addition as a requirement, though. For instance, the core 'Contact Form' module allows for anonymous submit (not by default) and does not require CAPTCHA.
I do not think that anonymous applications should be enabled by default, but I see no reason not to make it an option for those who have a business case for it.
Please let us know if we can help you with this feature.
#4
Non-Drupal paid work is soaking up most of my time and attention these days. What's left goes to my family. I've already sunk considerable non-compensated labour into this module and have readily 'donated' the code under the terms of the GPL.
As maintainer I'll readily fix serious bugs and/or security issues with this module for free but to go beyond that I'd require sufficient material incentives. Anything else would be unfair to those who already pay me to work on their business requirements.
#5
So if I want this feature in my site what I need to do...please advise..how to go further...
#6
"So if I want this feature in my site what I need to do...please advise..how to go further..."
In other words; how much would it cost to have this feature build in? We might be able to supply those resources with a few of us...
#7
If you like, contact me directly through my user profile and we can discuss this further.
#8
I've attached an update for job_posting.module. This file makes a few changes to version 6.x-1.10. You'll want to run a diff to see what those changes are.
This is basically a hack for those that just want a basic job posting module that can be submitted anonymously or by authenticated users. If you choose to use this update, you cannot switch the feature on or off - (more substantial changes would be needed to create an interface for this feature). If you choose to use this update, please consider manually integrating a CAPTCHA style tool to reduce spam. And you will need to merge the changes with future versions or just stick with 6.x-1.10.
Many, many thanks to gmarus for all of his work on this module. For those who'd like to see a more robust implementation of anonymous posting, please consider contracting gmarus or providing some code contributions.
#9
Just wanted to say excellent, thank you thememex, saved me alot of work. :)
#10
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.