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How to-no posting in parent category-but allow in child cat's
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bill huggins
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May 1, 2012 - 11:02 am

In my first and new setup of SP, ive got multiple parent categories and child cats.

Right now, its showing a set of buttons for posting to the parent or child cats. How do I remove the button or restrict ability to post in parent cats?

I thought of maybe setting permissions so no posting was available, but would that also make the same permissions for the child cat's within?

 

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Bill H.

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Yellow Swordfish
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May 1, 2012 - 11:12 am

By categories I assume you mean forums and sub-forums.

Every forum and sub-forum can be controlled individually by the user group/permission relationship set on the forum record. So it would be a matter of setting a permission set on the parent forum that will disallow posting while using a permission set for the sub-forums that do allow it.

Is that what you meant?

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bill huggins
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May 1, 2012 - 11:46 am

Exactly on the nose.

I had tried it earlier, but when I restricted the parent forum permission's it automatically carried over to the child forums as well.

 

 Now that ive stepped away for a couple of hours, ill give it a go again and see how it goes.

 

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bill huggins
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May 1, 2012 - 12:26 pm

Must have been a temporary brain fart. All is good now.

 

I actually just created a new set of permissions, and assigned those to the parent forums. This way, I can still use that section for forum wide announcements and such as needed.

 

But I dont think visitors can post to the parent forums now, which is perfect.

 

Thanks

Bill

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May 1, 2012 - 1:17 pm

Great. Hope it goes well.

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