The "best posts" wiki documents listed at the top of the Newspapers on Drupal group page are valuable resources, and from time to time I want to direct non-members to them (including at times entire classrooms full of students). But it seems they are only accessible to logged in members.
The entries seem already to be saved as "public" but that doesn't do the trick. The alternative--making casual readers create a login on this group--doesn't seem like it would necessarily benefit the group and (as I have observed) serves as a deterrent to potential readers who might be somewhat interested in drupal but put off at having to create one more login.
Is it possible to make these docs publicly accessible to anonymous users? If so, how? If not, why not?
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Seems to work now...
I've noticed the same thing, but now it appears to work. =)
//Johan Falk, Sweden
This appears ...
This appears to be a bug. I also am getting "access denied" when not logged in.
Is there someone with admin
Is there someone with admin privileges who could be contacted to check it out? Would this be Nikolai (as group manager) or someone else?
There's really nothing you
There's really nothing you can do as a group manager to change access for anonymous users, so it might actually be a bug - a temporary one hopefully...
I used the groups.drupal
I used the groups.drupal contact tab to send a support request on this. We shall see...
Aha!
Aha! No response from the site admins, but I think I've found the problem:
I notice that the links to the documents are made with something called "freelinking" and that they seem to let users click on somewhat meaningful links and then be redirected to drupal-style node numbers. I've run into problems with link redirects in the past. I still cannot access the pages as a non-logged user by following these links, but if I simply put the direct URL in my browser window, there's no problem.
Nikolai, do you have permissions to edit the group homepage (I'm betting) and, if so, would you be willing please to try using direct links to these docs rather than freelinking redirects?
Thanks.
nice detective work - fixed
nice detective work - fixed now.
Great! I'm not sure what you
Great! I'm not sure what you did, but I can get to the docs through the links even when not logged in. Thanks!