Come together with the global Drupal community in Rotterdam, 28 Sept – 1 Oct 2026. Sessions, contribution, connection, and Early Bird savings until 8 June.An 'access forums' option in the access control to allow specific roles to access the forum listing and nodes.
The purpose of this feature is to only allow certain roles the permission to use the forum. In my case, i needed to deny anonymous users from seeing the forum.
| Comment | File | Size | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | accessforums_1.patch | 5.28 KB | Johan A |
| accessforum.patch | 5.32 KB | Johan A |
Comments
Comment #1
Johan A commentedcorrection to the patch, formerly the error message asked the user to login, which is only specific to my own site. Now the error message just says a generic unathorized message.
Comment #2
pwolanin commentedI think this would be a good core feature, since I think there are many types of sites that would like to have private forums. The downside of this approach, of course, it that it's all or none. Still, I think giving site creators the ability to make the forums private without having to add any other access control module would make drupal more attractive and easier for new adopters.
I found a similar proposal in a forum post here: http://drupal.org/node/59861#comment-113581
Comment #3
dries commentedThe same can be accomplished with one of the access modules; see the contributions repository.