collecting comments about a Quiz from users

We will not be going back to the menu-triggered start event for Quiz. The main Quiz node will continue to be the controller for the quiz.

However, we are looking at ways of adding a step before the first question. This will be used for adding instructions, confirming that the user wants to take the quiz, and so on.

The access system in version 3 has undergone some changes, though I doubt any will give you exactly what you want out of the box. Feel free to post patches to the access system.

First, you can basically emulate some of the desired functionality by beginning the quiz with a Quiz Directions slide. When this slide appears first, the quiz timer is started (technically it is re-started) when the user clicks the submit button on the directions slide. But it's not going to solve your problem.

Here's a better solution:

Why not add a new node type that is displayed before a quiz node -- something like a quiz intro type that uses a node reference to associate with the quiz? This would give you a place to put any old arbitrary content and also have comments. Displaying the node reference as a "Start Quiz" link would essentially achieve all that you are asking for here, would it not? And you would have all of the usual access to the menu access system.

You could also hook_menu_alter() the node view menu item and modify the access callback, wrapping the standard user_access functions in your own custom access handler. I'd imagine that the function would do something like this:

my_access($node, $user) { // Not sure of the exact args for user_access()
  if ($node->type == 'quiz') {
    // Do your own stuff
  }
  else {
    user_access(); 
  }
}

This is probably the least intrusive way of doing things.

You could also check out Node Access.... That *might* work.

Feel free to hop onto #drupal-quiz in IRC and we can chat about various alternatives.

Changing title and adding to quiz "ToDo" list.

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