Guest posting in forums.

Guest posting in forums.

by Frank Omega -
Number of replies: 2
Hi.

I would like to give Guest (non-registered, non-logged-in users) to be able to post on a forum I have in my front page. I have the following options selected:
Administration ► Users► Permissions ► Define roles

Guest Role
Forum:
  • Reply to posts: Allowed
  • Start new discussions: Allowed
  • View discussions: Allowed

Administration ► Users ► Permissions ► User policies
  • Role for visitors: Guest
  • Role for guest: Guest
However, when a guest tries to start a new threead, receives:

Sorry, guests are not allowed to post.

Would you like to log in now with a full user account?

Any idea how I might be able to enable this?

Thank you so much smile
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In reply to Frank Omega

Re: Guest posting in forums.

by Randy Orwin -
Hi Frank,

Unfortunately you can't set up the guest role to post into any forums due to special security restrictions put in place specifically for the guest account. See this discussion, http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=69674 for more information about this. You can also follow this discussion, http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12917 in the issue tracker.

As far as your current role definition, doing this kind of override will allow access for a guest to participate in any forum in any course on the site, assuming guests could actually participate in a forum. Not necessarily something you would want to do. You would always want to use the override permissions tab on the specific activity.

I hope that this helps.
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In reply to Randy Orwin

Re: Guest posting in forums.

by Frank Omega -
Too bad. I can live without this but it would have made my life so much easier.

Thank you for the help.
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