Hello Zafer.

EasyDiscuss ACL setting is for user group. For example, you enable accepted option in ACL for registered user group. All of registered user can accepted the reply in easydiscuss.

Hope this help

Hello Izzan,

I created a forum post here and you gave me an answer. Someone (a registered user like me) see this post and can mark it as Answered. Is it sensible to you? For example, in your forum can I mark any answer as Answered no matter if post is mine or not.

Best regards,

Zafer

Hello Zafer,

The ACL option for "Mark Answered" and "Accepted" is checked together with if the user is the owner/admin/moderator. Even if the user is allowed to mark it as answer, he cannot perform it unless he is the owner of the post OR the admin of the site OR the moderator.

Hi Nik,
In my case it is not what you described. If I enable "Mark Answered" option for registered user group in ACL, any registered user can mark any reply as Answered. What might be wrong in this?

Hi Zafer,

I am really sorry for the delay of this reply as it is a weekend for us here.

Do you mean that if enable "Mark Answered" option for registered user group in ACL, you only want the question owner/admin/moderator have the permission to mark answer right? If yes, can you download my attachment file and replace in JoomlaFolder\components\com_easydiscuss\themes\simplistic\post.qna.php and see how it goes?

Hi Arlex,
Owner of the post should be able to mark a reply as Answered or Accepted. Not other irrelevant registered users. Even those irrelevant registered users should not see Accept Answer button. It is the right way, right? In ACL of ED's admin there should have been such setting like "post owner can mark as answered". I wonder how your demo works in a proper way. I mean, in your demo, registered user cannot see Accept Answer button if they are not owner of the post.
Can you confirm this file change is a solution for my issue? Should I re-do it with every update?

Hi Zafer,

I am really sorry for the delay of this reply as it is a weekend for us here.

Yes, can you give it a try and see how it goes?

By the way I already applied this fix in our locally repo, and it will be included next release version of Easydiscuss.

I totally agree with Zafer.

I am in the process of configuring my site and am surprised by the response that any irrelevant user (within the permitted user group and above) could mark a post as answered even though he or she may not be the owner of that post. I will also apply this hack for now.

Would suggest that you post this in the Downloads section in the meantime for other subscribers' benefits (as it should be a basic functionality or at least an optionality). Could you please confirm when the next version will be released?

Hey guys,

I am actually a little lost here. If you don't want to allow users to mark answers for every single discussion, you could actually turn this off in the ACL. Am I missing anything here?

Hi, Mark,

We want users to be able to mark answers but only if they are the author who originated the thread. ACL does not differentiate whether the user is the originator or not. That's why the hack is useful.

I just tested the functionality of the hack. It would appear that once the hack is installed, the system will allow the originator to mark answers regardless of settings in ACL. Is that intended?

Also, could you explain the difference between "Mark answered" vs "Accepted"? I do not see a button for "Accepted" and am curious about the how it operates.

I will repeat my request to have a more detailed manual to be provided for EasyDiscuss. There is too much guessing and trial and error as it stands now.

Thanks!

Hey there,

The "Accepted" acl allows the user to assign the discussion to themselves. For instance on our forums, if someone were to report a bug, we could set this to "accepted" which is not a state of "pending" or "resolved".

As for the "mark answered", it's entirely different. It updates the state to "resolved". That is the difference between both these rules.

By the way you have an interesting nickname

Hi, Mark, thanks for the clarification. That makes sense.

Yes, my nickname. Exactly as it says, a newbie to EasyDiscuss ;-)

Hi, Mark, could you also help with my question about the hack? Thanks again!

Hm, what help do you need with the hacks?

Hi, Mark, please see the quote below. Thanks!

stackideas newbie wrote:
I just tested the functionality of the hack. It would appear that once the hack is installed, the system will allow the originator to mark answers regardless of settings in ACL. Is that intended?

I just downloaded the file and it seems like the hack above will allow the user to mark the post as answered only IF they have "Accept Answer" acl enabled and they are the owner of the post.

Thanks, Mark! I think it's working as it should now.

Hi, Mark, I think it's working as it should now. Thanks!

You are most welcome