Public Preview with Login for Full Post
By Steve Lomas on Wednesday, 18 January 2017
Posted in General
Likes 0
Views 117
Votes 0
Hey all,

We are new to EasyDiscuss. We are planning a subscription site using Membership Pro for membership subscriptions and EasyDiscuss for a members-only Forum. The forum will be accessed by a menu that is assigned to the subscriber user group. The plan is to preview one or more posts from this private forum on the home page to help promote the forum as a subscription feature.

Is there some equivalent to the core joomla feature for articles, whereby turning on "Show Unauthorised Links" that would allow us to preview posts via your latest posts module from a Forum that is otherwise locked to the public forcing login if the visitor clicks on any of the links in the preview?

Alternatively, if that is not an option, is there was way to disable all links int he forum previews being displayed via your latest posts module?

Thanks!
Hey Steve,
If you do not want the public to create new discussion posts on any category, you can set the permission for this in the ACL section in the backend of EasyDiscuss(http://take.ms/ieoAv).
If you want to configure different permissions for different categories, you have to edit the permission settings for each category(http://take.ms/TctsP).
Raymond
·
Friday, 20 January 2017 10:23
·
0 Likes
·
0 Votes
·
0 Comments
·
Hi Steve,
Unfortunately, there is no setting equivalent to the "Show Unauthorised Links" options in Joomla articles.
If you really want to show unauthorized links in EasyDiscuss, you have to customize a core file: JoomlaFolder/administrator/components/com_easydiscuss/models/posts.php(http://take.ms/G9EKE)

If you really want to do this, please make a backup of your original file and take note that we do not provide support for future issues originating from these kinds of customization.

is there was way to disable all links int he forum previews being displayed via your latest posts module?
Do you mean disable the hyperlinks? If yes, there is no point in disabling the hyperlinks as those restricted discussion won't be showing to unauthorized users anyway.
Raymond
·
Wednesday, 18 January 2017 16:30
·
0 Likes
·
0 Votes
·
0 Comments
·
is there was way to disable all links int he forum previews being displayed via your latest posts module?

Do you mean disable the hyperlinks? If yes, there is no point in disabling the hyperlinks as those restricted discussion won't be showing to unauthorized users anyway.


Actually there is a point. If I can easily disable the hyperlinks, I can effectively accomplish the desired solution.
Steve Lomas
·
Thursday, 19 January 2017 13:18
·
0 Likes
·
0 Votes
·
0 Comments
·
Hey Steve,
Sure. Perhaps you can try using this custom css code to prevent users from clicking on the discussion title hyperlink in the Recent Discussion module.


div#ed.ed-mod.m-recent-discussions .m-post-title {

	pointer-events: none !important;

}
You can apply them here if you don't already have a custom css file: JoomlaFodler/templates/yourCurrentTemplate/html/com_easydiscuss/css/custom.css (create directory if it does not exist)
Raymond
·
Thursday, 19 January 2017 15:51
·
0 Likes
·
0 Votes
·
0 Comments
·
Thanks Raymond!

I was thinking the pointer-events none might be the way to go. Worked great.

One related question, and I have not looked for this yet, but does EasyDiscuss allow for public read-only and authenticated member write/authoring? That might be useful, for our purposes as well.
Steve Lomas
·
Friday, 20 January 2017 06:18
·
0 Likes
·
0 Votes
·
0 Comments
·
Perfect. I'll dig into that. Thanks, for the great support!
Steve Lomas
·
Friday, 20 January 2017 23:25
·
0 Likes
·
0 Votes
·
0 Comments
·
You are most welcome Steve, glad that your issues are resolved now
Mark
·
Friday, 20 January 2017 23:29
·
0 Likes
·
0 Votes
·
0 Comments
·
View Full Post