Hello,

I've been using 3.2 and it's really nice.  Thanks for the great work.  I haven't set up a personal blog yet, but it looks easy to do.

I've got a question.  I have a site where we want some blogs (maybe 8 authors) for the public to read and some blogs that are just for the staff (2 or 3 authors).  We would even like the same author/user to be able to post some blogs for public view and others (using a different category) for staff viewing.

Is there a way to:
- have two different sets of blogs on the same portal
- set permissions on the blog categories to filter who views them
- be able to select which blogs and their categories that are shown for each presentation page

Any thoughts, comments or strategies would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Wylie

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Chris Wylie
Chief Executive Officer

1775 W. State Street Suite 371, Boise ID 83702 USA
 

Perhaps a solution like ActiveForums which allows each forum to have its own view role settings.

The blogs could have viewable role selections for both parent blogs and child blogs (categories).  These filters could be kept in the module settings so they do not affect other instances of the blog elsewhere in the portal.

The filter would affect both the direct viewing of the blog and it's listing.

Easy for me to say!

Thanks again Hans-Peter.

Wylie

FWIW - A problem that ActiveForums has is that seperate instances of the forum will link back and forth between instances (from one page to the other).  This is disorientating to the user!

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Chris Wylie
Chief Executive Officer

1775 W. State Street Suite 371, Boise ID 83702 USA
 

Hi, just starting to use the blog module here too.  It's quite powerful!

A solution to the user-centric approach might be to consider a Page Blog (i.e. page-based instead of user-based) option.  This could be a simpler module with just a single blog and comments area.  Maybe the usual DNN security roles could be used to control edit access to the blog so multiple people could edit it if necessary.

Thanks,
-Mat