Question Access for only author and moderators

Hello

I want to make a category at my Kunena 2.0.1 where any registered user can start a topic. Both authors and moderators should have a full access to the topic but anybody else should not ever see it. Is this possible?

thx

G'day, mdsqr, welcome to Kunena and thank you for a very interesting question. The answer to your question is yes and no.

Yes, it's possible for a person to start a topic and that the only people who can reply to the topic can be authors and forum moderators but, no, it's not possible to secure the contents of the original post and all the replies so that the only people who can read the contents are the topic creator and those others.

There are ways, however, that you can retain confidentiality. If you have a spare hour or two I could discuss some ideas with you.

This would be an interesting challenge for any web-based discussion forum; I have yet to see one that has solved this problem. The functional requirement would be better met, in my opinion, with a help-desk application and maybe that's something you might like to investigate.

Kunena is not a help-desk application.

There are ways, however, that you can retain confidentiality. If you have a spare hour or two I could discuss some ideas with you.

Which ways do you mean?

The functional requirement would be better met, in my opinion, with a help-desk application and maybe that's something you might like to investigate.

Yes I can find some joomla component for this. Perhaps I should stop thinking Vb way and start thinking joomla way instead

mdsqr wrote: Which ways do you mean?

As I wrote, if you have a couple of hours to discuss this issue and consider a range of ideas, I would be prepared to invest some of that time with you. I am not, however, going to canvass a broad range of options, some of which may not be agreeable to you, on the off-chance that one or two ideas may be acceptable, I simply do not have that much time. I believe in the principle that nothing is impossible but everything has a cost. At this time I am merely suggesting that the cost is our time to discuss possible ideas and that's all I am suggesting.