By deathgod on

I have a forum called "Homepage News" but I only want to allow my moderators to publish content on it. In other words, how do I set it so that only the moderator user role can post threads. Thanks for any help,

Nick

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cog.rusty’s picture

cog.rusty commented

Have you tried http://drupal.org/project/forum_access ?

deathgod’s picture

deathgod commented

Thanks, I'll check it out, one more question about something thats confusing me (due to inexperience). Does the posts of sub-forums also show on the main forum or is it only shown in the sub-forum.
Example:
I have forum "General Anime" and that forum has two sub-forums, "Naruto Anime" and "Bleach Anime". Will all the posts in Naruto and Bleach be shown in the General Anime forum or will it only be shown in the sub-forums that it was posted in?

Thanks for the Link
Nick
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Naruto - narutomonkey.net - Naruto Forums

VM’s picture

VM commented

only shown in the forum that it was posted in. nested forums (subforums can be server intensive).

it may be better to organize by category rather then nested forums.

Example: use
category = General Anime
forum1 = Naruto Anime
forum2 = Bleach Anime

instead of

forum1 = General Anime
subforum1 = Naruto Anime
subforum2 = Bleach Anime

deathgod’s picture

deathgod commented

Why are sub-forums server intensive if the posts are only reflected in that sub-forum and not the parent forum?
In some instances, I will need to use sub-forums, (i.e. for the very niche categories that dont warrant a full forum profile) and I would prefer to have content displayed in the parent forum as well, but I'll sort out that later, was just curious if it was an in-built functionality or if i would have to go hunting.
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Naruto - narutomonkey.net - Naruto Forums

VM’s picture

VM commented

Why are sub forums server intensive.

drupal uses quite a few querries to make forums work. the deeper your forums are nested the more querries will have to be run. you can double check this by installing the devel module and inserting forum threads. watch the querries increase to a point that wont be a pleasure.

This is not limited to Drupal. Even forum software like phpbb runs into situations with nested forums (depending on the mod used, as phpbb doesnt come with subforums natively).