Ok, thanks. I was hoping there was a simple way to properly disable discussions for a site. It sounds like I would have to override the edit views of the standard types if I wanted to truly hide the discussion functionality, but I don't want to have to do that, so I'll have to live with it, and (probably repeatedly) explain to users what it's for and whether they should use it.
"Raphael Ritz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Ben Kingston wrote: >> I want the discussion option to be completely unavailable to all users. >>>From what I can tell, that "allow discussion" property simply sets the >> default for new items (of that type). > > Didn't I just say that as well? > >> I don't want the options shown at all in edit forms, etc. I want to turn >> that entire functionality off. > > On the views, this is controlled by the 'Reply to item' permission > and I think Plone's default templates honor that correctly. > > For the 'edit' I think you are offered this field as soon as you have > general modification rights on the object. This is pretty useless > as soon as no-one can respond anyway so you could just make this field > 'invisible'. To my knowlegde there is no specific permission > to control this particular field. > > Raphael > >> Thanks, >> Ben >> >> "Raphael Ritz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >>>Ben Kingston wrote: >>> >>>>Hello, >>>>I want to completely disable all discussions on my Plone site. >>>>Is there a way to do this for the whole site, or per ArchType, etc? >>> >>>Per type, yes. YOu do that in ZMI -> portal_types -> <any type> >>> >>>Look for the 'allow discussion' flag. >>> >>>This value determines the 'default' in the Plone UI. >>> >>>Raphael >>> >>> >>>>I am converting an existing Product to use Plone 2.1, and am using >>>>ArcheTypes to define the objects of my Product. >>>> >>>>Thanks, >>>>Ben >>> >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ Setup mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/setup
