Hello,

I was wondering if there is currently a way for an admin to 'lock' a node from any changes to further flag/unflag the node by users? If not I would like to kindly request this feature as I believe it can be used in many different ways.

One example: Use a flag to allow users to 'Vote' on a node, but after 1 week freeze further changes (flagging/unflaggin)

Thanks!

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quicksketch
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This is currently possible through the API (through hook_flag_access()), but there's no exposed functionality to the user to do this. Really what it would probably be would be a flag (say "lock") that disables further flagging. You could also use a CCK field I suppose. So this is possible and not even very difficult, but I'm not sure that such a specific functionality is appropriate to include directly in Flag. There are a LOT of common use cases for Flag, and if we included them all, the module would start to develop cruft of functionality you had to remove or never used.

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YK85 commented

Hi quicksketch,

A 'lock' flag that can only be accessed by admin I can create. But I'm not sure how to make this flag freeze the flagging/unflagging of the other flags on the node by authenticated users.

Yea, flag module can be used in so many use cases and is such a powerful feature to have.
You're awesome work is very much appreciated!

Thanks

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mooffie commented
Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

yaz085,

There's now a handbook page explaining about hook_flag_access().

I'm not sure how to make this flag freeze the flagging/unflagging of the other flags

Our API page explains how to determine if a some node is flagged by a certain flag.

At alternative to hook_flag_access() is: #952114: Have hook_flag_validate(). I'm marking this a duplicate of that one.