Zoho ONE for Professional Services
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A collection of useful tips to improve how you use Business Catalyst solution in your business.
The question put to us was " We are looking at the possibility of rolling out a discussion forum for Members on the website but wanted, at least initially to limit New Topic Creation so that only ourselves had that ability. We have set the forum up to require moderation so that new topics need to be approved before publishing but wanted to know if there was a way to remove the ability outright?"
Our response to this is:
Generally a forum is meant to be an open discussion and you really want to limit the level of control otherwise it really isn’t a forum. On the other hand you don’t want open slather otherwise you can end up with a lot of rubbish or it can become so unstructured that people can’t find what they are interested in. The level of control offered through BC is not inconsistent with many forums and does offer a good solution.
Your choices are:
Now in answer to your specific question about removing the ability to post a new topic altogether – yes this is readily achieved with a change to the module layouts for the Forum module. In the Topics Page layout there is a call (twice) to {tag_newtopic…} that shows the button linking to creation of a new topic. All that is required is to remove that call altogether.
Tags: Module Forums