Moodle

forum locking: new feature

Details

  • Type: New Feature New Feature
  • Status: Open Open
  • Priority: Minor Minor
  • Resolution: Unresolved
  • Affects Version/s: 1.8
  • Fix Version/s: None
  • Component/s: Forum
  • Labels:
    None
  • Environment:
    any
  • Database:
    Any
  • Affected Branches:
    MOODLE_18_STABLE

Description

It would be very nice for instructors to have the ability to lock or expire a forum. There are many situations where it would be desirable to leave a forum as "read only". This could be done by setting an expiration date (automatic state change) or a tick box (manual state change).

This is related to
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-999 (expiration date request)

Discussion:
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=84499
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=87979

Issue Links

This issue will help resolve:
MDL-999 Time feature on Forums Minor Open
This issue will be resolved by:
MDL-15235 Ability to set opening and closing dates on forums Minor Closed

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Román Huerta added a comment -

Hi, is there any advance on these, issue? I need it for a moodle implementation I have, so I think I'll begin coding, if there is any update please tell me

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Román Huerta added a comment - Hi, is there any advance on these, issue? I need it for a moodle implementation I have, so I think I'll begin coding, if there is any update please tell me
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Román Huerta added a comment -

Hi, I just make some changes on some files to implement this new feature, I don't know if it is the best way, but here I upload them

Also you have to set a new field on the forum table, the name I used was "limittime" and it is a bigint(10) for timestamp.

Thanks

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Román Huerta added a comment - Hi, I just make some changes on some files to implement this new feature, I don't know if it is the best way, but here I upload them Also you have to set a new field on the forum table, the name I used was "limittime" and it is a bigint(10) for timestamp. Thanks
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Buddy Ethridge added a comment -

I would like to further expand this request by including the ability to lock not only a forum manually, but also a particular thread/topic. This can currently be done by moving a chosen thread to a new forum that has posting disabled, but it would be nice for a user with 'editing' capabilities to lock a topic without having to move it from it's original forum.

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Buddy Ethridge added a comment - I would like to further expand this request by including the ability to lock not only a forum manually, but also a particular thread/topic. This can currently be done by moving a chosen thread to a new forum that has posting disabled, but it would be nice for a user with 'editing' capabilities to lock a topic without having to move it from it's original forum.

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