Posted by dreadstar on September 28, 2010 at 1:05am
On the core forum module, I have a subforum named Archives wherein I transfer old topics that are old. Every topic I move to this subforum I have to edit to "lock" the topic meaning changing the comments status to "read only". My site is getting more traffic and I am getting tired of doing this cleanup chore weekly. Is there a way to automate this wherein if I move any topic to the Archive subforum, it would automatically change the status of the topic to "read only"? Note that all the topics in my Archive subforums are locked.
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You can use a scheduler
You can use a scheduler module and take advantage of the core Drupal actions setting the comment option of a node to "read only" after a certain period has expired.
Tnx Jhef for the comment. Is
Tnx Jhef for the comment. Is there a way to have the comment option change to "read only" status immediately upon transfer to the archive subforum rather than setting it to expire for a certain period?
Yeah it's just a matter of
Yeah it's just a matter of how :) But I don't think there's a module for the functionality you just described. If you don't like the current available options, you could always write your own code..
"you could always write your
"you could always write your own code" ... ouch, easier said than done for a non programmer
@dreadstar Hi, I am looking
@dreadstar
Hi,
I am looking for the same functionality.
Have you discovered anything to execute it? Please share it
Nope. Upto this date, I just
Nope. Upto this date, I just manually lock the individual threads. Maybe there is a convoluted solution out there, but no easy solution I could find.