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jos2006 Posted: Mon, Aug 14 2006 2:35 PM

Hi,

I want all users to be able to post in my public blog. By setting the owner as 'Everyone' and providing 'Manage Content' to Everyone, Everyone is also able to change the setting of the Blog like description, etc. That's not what I want. So how do I set security in such a way that Everyone is able to post to the public Blog, without registering first?

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Logik! replied on Mon, Aug 14 2006 4:58 PM

Your answer can be found in this thread:

http://communityserver.org/forums/thread/536181.aspx

Remember that there are two places where it must be enabled...

  1. At the Membership level
  2. At the local Blog level
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jos2006 replied on Mon, Aug 14 2006 6:10 PM

Hi, thanks for your reply. However I can not find this setting: 

Control Panel, Administration, Membership, Posting Settings.

Change the "Allow Anonymous Posts" settings to yes.

If this changed in 2.1?

 Thanks again!

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Logik! replied on Mon, Aug 14 2006 7:00 PM

In the RTM of v2.1, go to Administration --> Settings --> Post Settings

Then, in the particular Blog you wish to enable, go to Global Settings --> Advanced Post Settings and enable anonymous comments.

I cannot recall how different it was for any of the betas, but there's no need to run them now.  Smile

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Logik! replied on Mon, Aug 14 2006 7:07 PM
Quick question:  Do you just want anonymous comments, or are you looking to have them post new entries as well?
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jos2006 replied on Tue, Aug 15 2006 12:03 PM

I have found how to enable anonymous comments but yes, I was looking for anonymous posts.

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Logik! replied on Tue, Aug 15 2006 2:12 PM

After looking more carefully at your request, I realize that I don't see any way to accomplish that.  Big Smile  Anyone who can blog can edit the blog.

Let's see if anyone knows of other approaches to address this.

If you don't mind me asking, why do you want to have anonymous bloggers?

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jos2006 replied on Tue, Aug 15 2006 3:10 PM

Yes, in this case I want an open blog where everybody is able to post news items.

Thanks.

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Logik! replied on Tue, Aug 15 2006 4:36 PM
This is very easy to configure in the forums, but it doesn't seem to be the typical use of blogs, which explains the difficulty in configuring it.
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This is too bad.

I'd also like a public blog. User generated content.

But it should work like this:
Anybody can write a blog entry and save it.
An administrator (me or trustee) must publish it.

Is it doable?     

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Logik! replied on Mon, Sep 4 2006 8:03 AM

From what I have seen, it doesn't appear that blogs were intended to have multiple, anonymous authors.

In all likelihood, you'd need to develop a CS Module to introduce this granularity to blog administration so that users of the blog could only publish drafts, and had no other normal admin-level controls.

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Logik!:

From what I have seen, it doesn't appear that blogs were intended to have multiple, anonymous authors.

In all likelihood, you'd need to develop a CS Module to introduce this granularity to blog administration so that users of the blog could only publish drafts, and had no other normal admin-level controls.

I'm not a developer.

Too bad. Perhaps someone will make such a module.

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