By jraper@groups.drupal.org on

For example, is there any way to allow anonymous users to fully participate is some forums but not others?

Further, is there a way to allow comments on some content types (like forums) while simultaneously forbidding it on others (such as books)?

Thanks for any information.

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I don't know on the first question but, for the second, go to www.example.com/admin/settings/content-types and configure each type you want to adjust the setting for.

Michelle

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jraper@groups.drupal.org commented

Thank you for the pointer, but I don't think I asked my question correctly. What I meant was can I allow some Roles to access and/or post comments to some content types but not others? It looks to me like the comment settings are Global - that is that they can be:

1) adjusted Globally for each Content Type without regard to Role or

2) adjusted Globally for all Roles without regard to Content Type

What I am searching for is a way to simultaneously permit (as an example):

A) Anonymous users can read comments to Forum and Blog nodes, but not other content types;

B) Anonymous users can create comments to Forums, but not Blog nodes;

C) Standard Authenticated users can read & create comments to Forum, Blog, Page, and Story nodes, but only read comments to Book nodes;

D) Senior Authenticated users can read & create comments to Forum, Blog, Page, Story, and Book nodes;

E) and so on ...

Any idea if (and how) such can be done?

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I'm not aware of anything within the UI that will let you get that detailed with access control. There might be something in the contrib modules, but it's not something I've looked for.

Sorry,

Michelle

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somebodysysop commented

Did you ever find a way to assign comment access by role AND/OR content type?

What I am searching for is a way to simultaneously permit (as an example):

A) Anonymous users can read comments to Forum and Blog nodes, but not other content types;

B) Anonymous users can create comments to Forums, but not Blog nodes;

C) Standard Authenticated users can read & create comments to Forum, Blog, Page, and Story nodes, but only read comments to Book nodes;

D) Senior Authenticated users can read & create comments to Forum, Blog, Page, Story, and Book nodes;

E) and so on ...

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Bevan commented

I'm looking for something similar, but to hide an entire store from anon users. I found these modules. I haven't tried them yet:

http://drupal.org/project/simple_access
http://drupal.org/node/53738
http://drupal.org/node/8132

http://lucion.com.ar

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luyendao commented

If i'm not mistaken, you can do most of that from 'access roles' ?

Sounds like all you need is different access roles, for various types of users, and then limit/grant their access accordingly.

But i think drupal doesn't cover all of them, like permissions for the blog, which is a bit odd, in which case i'd suggest overriding (in phptemplate) how links get output.

If a certain user role, then output the link that says 'add comments' and so forth. A bit hacky, but it'll work.

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2createwdrupal commented

I'm looking for a way to do this also. Nothing I've tried so far has this option. I can see, in "permissions" that I can allow anon users to create a "new topic" but not comment, which, apparently, is global only? There must be a way around this.

I'm using Drupal 6.4

Thanks!

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dhestlund commented

I'm in the same boat. I'm using an auth module to allow people who have logins in our database to authenticate in drupal - the only roles I can use for them are anonymous and authenticated (and manually assigned moderator/division/board members). I don't want authenticated users posting comments to our pages, books, etc; just in the forums.
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black silence commented

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I need anonymous user comments in blog but only authenticated user in forum.
(forum_access allows to disables posting for guests but not commenting)

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subdian commented

I want to enable anonymous comments on blogs & articles, to encourage discussion, but only allow authenticated users to post comments (replies) in the forum. Someone must have figured out a solution to this. Seems like a common problem.

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Bevan commented

You'll need an additional contrib or custom module that implements this feature. Try searching drupal.org for contrib modules that do this, or contract a drupal developer to create one.

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hansrossel commented

http://drupal.org/project/comment_perm

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wwwoliondorcom commented

Thank you for your link, but can you tell me if using this module I could:

Disable comment to any ANONYMOUS USER for ALL NODES

but

Enable at the same time comment to ANONYMOUS USER for some SELECTED NODES (I want to decide during the page creation if anonymous users will be allowed to comment this one or not)

Thanks again.