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using GForum at a news site
Hy,

i'd like to use the GForum at a news site. so i'd like to create a news page, wich lists 10, 20 of the firstlevel posts (content) in one subforum. no other user may be able to create topics there - but they should be able to answer to firstlevel topics. and i'd like to show on my news page how many answers i allready got.

i should be able to create other subforums where users CAN create firstlevel topics..

how should this be done? is this possible?

thx for supporting,
cu, Raphael.
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Re: [raphb] using GForum at a news site In reply to
Hi Raphael,

Yes, Gossamer Forum has a permission system that allows you to set up a forum with permissions that allows users only to reply to posts. It is used, for example, in our Bug Fix forum - in which users are not allowed to start new threads, but are permitted to respond to existing threads. For users who actually should be allowed to post (in our case, staff members) you can create another user group (e.g. "Staff"), and then assign permissions to create new threads to that group. The relevant permissions are "Read/Reply access" vs. "Read/Reply/Post access".

As for embedding the threads as news items in another page, take a look at this thread from a few months ago:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/...i?post=198292#198292

There were a few different ways present there that should be useful.

Jason Rhinelander
Gossamer Threads
jason@gossamer-threads.com
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Re: [Jagerman] using GForum at a news site In reply to
thx!

and hey - why aren't the search-machine-friendly installed everywhere? i sometimes see the "cool" links in the adressbar, and some other times it looks like most do..

Code:
;parent_post_id=222846;t=
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Re: [raphb] using GForum at a news site In reply to
Well, the ones like this:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/perl/gforum/gforum.cgi?post=222850#222850

come from the "Copy Shortcut" link beside the post - which is a very easy to grab a shortcut to a post, which is why I usually use it. The ones that look more like:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/perl/gforum/gforum.cgi?post=222839;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;forum_view=forum_view_collapsed;;page=unread#unread

come from someone copying and pasting the URL from their address bar.

The "cool" ones - like:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/forum/Gossamer_Forum_C7/Products_C7/Discussion_F22/using_GForum_at_a_news_site_P222839/

take a little more work as I'd have to piece it together manually, and then I'd still have to try to figure out the exact post ID to tack #<number> on the end. So, really, it's out of laziness Wink.

Jason Rhinelander
Gossamer Threads
jason@gossamer-threads.com