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By Johnny5Step on
Just started using Drupal 4.7 the download file has the date July 10, 2006 in it. and it's up and running fine, I'm a total newbie to Drupal so I may be missing some instructions that are obvious.
I'm sure this is in the handbooks or the forums somewhere, but I can't find it. So if this is a common issue, I apologize in advance.
Is there a way to have the Forum Containers have their own URLs? Or some other way where you can seperate them out?
For instance if you wanted a community area that had forums for all members, and a Students area that had forums that only Student members could access and post in, and another Teachers area that only Teacher members could access and post in and so forth?
I saw a note that said Forums could have their own URLs, but no details on that.
Thanks for any assistance or reference to resources,
Comments
You can use the path module
You can use the path module for this to create url aliases to the forum urls. Enable path in your modules, then go to /admin/path
the settings would be
existing system path:
forum/##
alias
forum/new_name (for example)
Seperating out the forums
Thank you for the speedy reply, your instructions worked exactly as you said.
One further question. In the URL aliasing, if I alias "forum/8" to "../Folder/SubFolder" is that possible?
Also will aliasing make it only show up in the new location and not on the original forums page?
Or this this a whole different part of the situation?
What I am trying to do is separate out the forums where there will be a main forum page that all the members can get to which is accessed by the "user forum" link in the navigation block. And other areas, where specific subgroups such as Students, Teachers, Administrators, can have their own forums that only they can access and post to. Is that the same thing you are talking about?
Thanks,
The alias is just that, it
The alias is just that, it will change the links on the forum page - that is, when you hover over them or click on them they will have the new name not forum/8. And, yes, you can name the alias whatever you want really forum/8 can be folder/folder/folder/newname
What is not easily done, at least as far as I know, is to control access down to specific forum containers - under access control, forums are an all or nothing permission for your user groups. You could probably duplicate the entire forum module, changing all references in each copy to studentforum, teacherforum, etc. and then grant permissions for the student userrole to post and view in the "studentforum", etc. - but I have no idea whether this would work or not - and it could possibly cause problems.
It would be similar to duplicating the story module which I did on my site to restrict the creation of certain "types" of stories to certain user roles - http://drupal.org/node/40684
Taxonomy access
As the forum creates categories via taxonomy, the module taxonomy access control is a very good solution for setting advanced permissions on different forums.
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