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Posted by Kris   USA  (198 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Mon 23 Jun 2003 04:24 AM (UTC)
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I'm trying to close a subject thread on one of my forums. I tried editing the table for the subject, and found a 'closed' field. Out of sheer guess, I entered '1' into the field and saved the changes.

I went back to the subject thread, and next to the 'reply to subject' link was in black letters '(closed)'. So it seemed to have worked. But then I tried replying to it. Suffice it to say, it let me reply to it as if it wasn't closed at all.

Is there a way of setting it to 'closed' while having it do more than just put '(closed)' next to the reply link? Eg how would I get it to actually disallow new posts to the subject, or has something like that not been added in yet?
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Posted by Samson   USA  (683 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Reply #1 on Mon 23 Jun 2003 09:14 AM (UTC)
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At a guess I'd say it's because you're the forum administrator and that allows you to override the closed setting. I've seen a few other forums who's software will let you do that. But Nick will obviously be able to answer best :)
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (22,975 posts)  [Biography] bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #2 on Mon 23 Jun 2003 08:59 PM (UTC)
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Samson is right, most of the restrictions in system can be overridden by the administrators and to a certain extent, section moderators.

You are best off setting up a "test" user who is not an administrator to test this sort of thing.
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Kris   USA  (198 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Reply #3 on Tue 24 Jun 2003 09:39 AM (UTC)
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Ahh i c. Yup it does work. Tnx Nick :)
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