Allow Author to Close Discussion

cbavota

I want to allow the person who started a discussion to close/open the discussion if they feel the need to. As it stands, I know I can change the roles and permission for members, but I wasn't sure if that gave all members the ability to close/open a discussion, or only the author.

cbavota

Anybody out there?

Tim

There doesn't seem to be a method for doing this yet, but its a good idea.

cbavota

That would be an amazing feature, so Authors can have more control over their own discussions. Thanks.

Tim

We're considering how to properly implement this. It goes hand-in-hand with allowing authors to delete their own comments and discussions. Stay tuned.

oliverraduner

+1 for this feature request

Rajio

Hrm I like the idea of giving a discussion-starter a sort of cusom user level within their own discussion so they can moderate it (to some extent) themselves.

vanillaxp

I do exactly need this option too. However, there does not seem to be an answer to this question for a while. Can anyone help on this issue?

tom762

Any news on this one? It's a very useful option.

[Deleted User]

I really want this. I wish that authors could do anything they want with their discussions except announcing the discussion. Close, delete, edit (always), sink, but not announce.

[Deleted User]

@Lincoln what are the reports about it?

Linc

@ilovetech said:
Lincoln what are the reports about it?

I'm not clear what you're asking...

hgtonight

You can enable your authors to always be able to edit by using the Advanced Forum Settings page (http://forum.example.com/vanilla/settings/advanced)

EDIT - There are no event hooks in the discussion controller pertaining to closing or deleting discussions, but I could see wrapping similar functionality in a plugin with different permissions checking. Then you would do some preliminary permissions checking and only insert the options if they don't have the all reaching permissions and are the author of this discussion.

Linc

In 2.1, there is the ability to allow authors to delete their own comments via config.

[Deleted User]

@Lincoln How do you allow authors to delete their own comments via the config file?

Shadowdare

In 2.1b2, the config setting that goes in /conf/config.php to allow authors to delete their own comments if they are still allowed to edit is:

$Configuration['Vanilla']['Comments']['AllowSelfDelete'] = TRUE;

[Deleted User]

@shadowdare I changed my mind, but what's up with this new button bar? I was kinda wondering why the site was down.

[Deleted User]

And @Lincoln This discussion about "Deleting and Editing your own comments" should be split. Almost 98.99% of that topic is COMPLETELY different from why this discussion was started. We should split those comments to another discussion