Thread title consistency
Is it possible to set our community so that those who reply CANNOT change the title of the thread, i.e. only allow it to be "Re: (thread title)"? A number of our users are requesting this, and I ...
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Hey Matt,
Long time no talk! I hope you're doing well!
If you're Studio-inclined, this would actually be pretty easy to accomplish through minor customization. I've come up with two ideas. Both of these ideas rely on keeping the subject field on the page, but preventing the user from editing. This allows the subject value to pass through to the post processing logic.
Idea 1: Hide the field using CSS
You could add some CSS to the skin to hide the field, such as:
#lia-body.ReplyPage .lia-content .lia-form-subject-entry { display: none; }
This will keep the field on the page so that the value can be automatically populated and passed through to the form handling when the user submits the post; however, the user will not be able to see the field, preventing them from changing the value.
Idea 2: Disable the field using JavaScript
You could add a component to the ReplyPage that had some JavaScript to disable the field. This would continue to show the field, but would prevent the user from editing it. The contents of the component might look like this:
<#if page.name?lower_case == "replypage" >
<@liaAddScript>
jQuery(document).ready(function() {
jQuery('#lia-body.ReplyPage .lia-content .lia-form-subject-entry input').attr('disabled','disabled');
}
</@liaAddScript>
</#if>
Like the previous idea, this will still allow the value to be passed through while preventing the user from editing it.
The main difference between these approaches is whether or not you want to continue showing the subject field to the user. Please note that neither of these ideas has been fully tested, so I strongly suggest trying this out in your staging environment first if you decide to go with either of these approaches.
I hope this helps!
Would either of these allow a moderator to change a thread subject? We have some very... creative members in our forum, and they can be quite colorful!
jloyless wrote:
Would either of these allow a moderator to change a thread subject? We have some very... creative members in our forum, and they can be quite colorful!
The original examples would hide it for all users. With a little freemarker, you could exclude certain roles if you wanted. For example, with the Idea #2 above, you could do something like:<#if page.name?lower_case == "replypage" > <#assign user_has_role = false /> <#list restadmin("/users/id/${user.id?c}/roles").roles.role as role> <#if role.name?? && (role.name == "Moderator" || role.name == "Administrator")> <#assign user_has_role = true /> </#if> </#list> <#if user_has_role > <#-- do nothing --> <#else> <@liaAddScript> jQuery(document).ready(function() { jQuery('#lia-body.ReplyPage .lia-content .lia-form-subject-entry input').attr('disabled','disabled'); } </@liaAddScript> </#if> </#if>Again, I highly recommend testing this out in your staging environment first.
That's quite a nice idea. I never really understood why someone should be able to modify a thread title mid-thread.
And I'd imagine it wouldn't affect a moderator's ability to edit a thread title, as those edit permissions are something separate.
Kendoji wrote:
That's quite a nice idea. I never really understood why someone should be able to modify a thread title mid-thread.
Historically, a lot of message board software allowed for the subject to be changed because that was a really easy way to show one-line replies in threaded view, or to indicate that you were changing the subject of the conversation (even though you were replying to the thread). By default, lithium displays a linear view of thread lists and thread message posts.
If you were to switch your preference to reading the community in "threaded" view (or via the Admin > Discussion Styles > Posts & Topics > Topics Display > Format for displaying posts> List by topics ), you would find the ability to change a message post title extremely useful. e.g. image below:Just a note that for more recent versions of JQuery the "attr" has been replaced by "prop".
Also the css classes in Lithium seem to have changed since this example so the following will now disable the Subject field:
jQuery('#lia-body.ReplyPage .lia-content .lia-form-subject-input').prop('disabled', true);
Also I didn't find it necessary to do a custom component - just added it to the Head section of the skin wrapper.
