Question

I'm wondering if there is a way to restrict a group from editing webs, but allow them to post comments to topics. This would support some workflow around comment validation, and separate out "general" comments from SME comments.

Environment

-- MerrellMaschino - 06 Oct 2005

Answer

If you answer a question - or someone answered one of your questions - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status selector is below the edit box.

I am not aware of an easy way to accomplish this with the current CommentPlugin spec. You could use a locked down web for actual content and different open web for comments. Each topic in the locked web has a corresponding comment topic in the comment web. In the actual topic you could include the comment topic with %INCLUDE{Comments.%TOPIC%}%

-- PeterThoeny - 07 Oct 2005

This just leaves the pending question of how to have a NewTopic facility that will create both the topic in the current web and the shadow topic in the Comments web.

-- AntonAylward - 01 Nov 2005

This is available once TopicCreatePlugin is released (see TopicCreatePluginDev). I supplied a 80% working plugin to StanleyKnutson quite a while ago. He needed this functionality and stated to release the plugin. I'll ask him.

-- PeterThoeny - 01 Nov 2005

What is the best way to have "locked" and "open" content in the same topic?

-- MerrellMaschino - 09 Feb 2006

TWikiAccessControl is per topic, that is you would need to lock down a topic and include another open topic into it.

-- PeterThoeny - 09 Feb 2006

This is a frequently asked question also answered in HowToDenyEditingAllowCommenting (and other places, I'm sure). Don't people do some research before asking these days anymore?

-- FranzJosefSilli - 11 Feb 2006