Hello William Matson,

Yes, if i'm not getting wrong meaning of your requirement, you can configure from your backend > Easydiscuss > Setting > Categories > select "FAQ category" > Permission tab (you can set which user group have the permission to view or select the category), see my screenshot : http://screencast.com/t/OaCXXded

If you're not referring this, is it possible elaborate your question with more details? Please advise.

I have posted a number of questions and answers in an FAQ section of my website. I want each of those discussions to appear in a specific sequence, instead of chronologically. Can the discussions be rearranged into a specific order?

Thanks for your help.

Hello William,

Sorry for late reply to this,
Unfortunately we do not have this specific option to arrange the order from frontpage discussion post.
By default when the user reply on the Easydiscuss post, it will go to the first discussion post display on frontpage (Is follow the creation date).
If you don't like this default, you can change the code from this file -> JoomlaFolder\components\com_easydiscuss\models\posts.php
LINE 374

				case 'replylatest':

					$orderby	= ' ORDER BY a.`created` ASC'; //used in discussion replies

					break;

				case 'latest':

				default:

					$orderby	= ' ORDER BY a.`replied` DESC'; //used in getsticky and get created date

					break;

Replace with

				case 'replylatest':

					$orderby	= ' ORDER BY a.`created` ASC'; //used in discussion replies

					break;

				case 'latest':

				default:

					$orderby	= ' ORDER BY a.`created` DESC'; //used in getsticky and get created date

					break;

This modification mean when user reply on that discussion post thread, it doesn't go to display on top of the first discussion post.

Thank you.

However, this does not solve my question. EasyDiscuss does not have the capability that I seek. I recommend that you consider adding thre features to a future release:
1. On the front end, enable sorting by date and sorting by alphabetical
2. On the admin side, enable selection of creation date and publication date. This feature is standard on all Joomla articles as you are aware. Why not here also? This would provide the solution to my inquiry.
3. On the admin side, enable the creation of new discussions.

Hello William Matson ,

You're welcome, sorry for late reply to this,
I will add this in our feature request list of Easydisucss and discuss this additional feature with our developers and see how it goes.
I'm sorry that make you inconvenience of this.