I am pretty mad at having wasted so much time at trying to get forums and blogs to work AS I WANT on a customer website.
Firstly, it appears you can have only one blog module working on a site. Putting 'another' blog module merely repeats the first one. Not too great if you want to give 2 different people their own blog and show only their content on their page. How stupid would this be if this process applied to text modules and each new module included the content of every other module?????? Consequently that plan is binned after wasting time on it.
Then there's the forums. Yep, you can have different forums on different pages. But can these forums be replied to by any visiting punter. NO it would seem. Not only that can you set up each forum so that the other role users cant start threads on another forum???? No again it would seem.
You start a new ROLE GROUP. Then you add a ROLE. Then you add a single USER TO THE ROLE. Still with me??
Then you try setting up the forum using those roles/user. There, that should mean that you can stipulate who can and cant start a new thread on a forum. and other bits as requierd. Reasonable suumption? Not if you're the forum module. It just allows a user not even assigned to the role to start a thread in another forum. STUPID!
Assigning users to roles within groups is useless as the forum will not you select any options within the role. So having wasted yet more time (TIME = MONEY) we are here posting what should be an unnecsessary topic.
No amout of playing with different settings resolves this idiotic and what surely should be a very simple to set up process.
So, any Einsteins out there with a solution??????