Background
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I'm using Drupal with the taxonomy access module installed. Some of my discussion forums are private and some are public.
Problem
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The way the UI works currently, users are expected to select the forum topic from the drop down menu. This is a problem because a user might accidentally categorize a post that was meant to be private in a public forum.
Even if public display of private info weren't an issue for some sites, I think requiring the user to select an appropriate category requires the user to do too much thinking especially if there is a large forum hieracrchy. Why not make selecting a category more more intuitive and automatic?
Proposal
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1) Remove the "post new forum topic" link from any page that lists taxonomy categories only. The link should only show up on those forum pages that contain actual user-submitted topic posts.
2) Change language of the link to be specific to the page the user is currently viewing. For example: "create new post in the [name_of_term] topic". Maybe we could put the the [name_of_term] in bold or red just to make it clear to the user which topic they are posting to.
2) Get rid of the category drop down menu from the user interface so they can't change the category setting.
3) This way, the user doesn't have to think about which category to post in.
Author's note: This is a repost of this same feature request I made for version 4.5.0. I am reclassifying as CVS. Admins, please delete my 4.5.0 verison.
| Comment | File | Size | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| #7 | forum_4.patch | 2.21 KB | G-LiTe |
Comments
Comment #1
drummI think UI should be driven by what is best for the user, not what is best for the code. This is not only a problem with forum topics, the same problem exists with other modules when you use access by categories. Would be nice if there were a generalized way to handle this.
Issues are not deleted, please mark the status as "won't fix" and it will no longer be seen unless someone is looking for it.
Comment #2
moshe weitzman commentedsounds good to me.
Comment #3
dries commentedI'm OK with the first two suggestions, but I'm not sure about the third (getting rid of the drop down menu). Also, I vote against the use of bold and red.
Comment #4
(not verified) commentedInstead of getting rid of the category drop down, make it auto select the current category.
Comment #5
TDobes commentedThis is how it currently works. I too vote against removing the category selector (the second #2) from the forum post/edit form.
#1 sounds like a good idea.
as for the first #2, the standard within Drupal is to place items like that in <em> tags. (not red or bold)
Comment #6
Steve Dondley commentedOK, thanks for the feedback. I'll code something and have something for us to look at this week.
Comment #7
G-LiTe commentedI just checked out CVS, and haven't seen any of this realized yet. Attached is a small patch along the lines of suggestion #1.
Not sure what is going on in CVS exactly, I only just started looking at Drupal again. Either I'm blind or taxonomy_access is broken, though. :p
Comment #8
liam mcdermott commentedChanging version and title. Seems people are only interested in implementing #1 and #2 from the original feature request.
Comment #9
liam mcdermott commentedMarking #164281: Remove "create forum topics" when only forum containers visible as duplicate of this. There's a vintage October 2007 patch on that issue, which aims to fix #1 of this feature request, if anyone's interested.
Comment #10
liam mcdermott commentedMarking #21557: Create forum node: disallow containers from forum selection as duplicate of this.
Comment #11
kentr commentedClosed due to inactivity.