Hi,

I'm not sure on what are you referring but all registered users should be able to create new topics, can you please provide us with more details ?

Thanks 

Thanks,
On the set up as we have it when a User clicks Forums (we renamed Discussions) two buttons appear above the discussions: New Topics and Topics you participated in. We want to see another button called "Add topic". i.e. we want the user to be able to add a new topic and for it to be published immediately. (Just now only an administrator can add a topic).

To get the "Open new topic" button you will have to go into a certain Discussion board (Forum) to get it, after you have navigated there you - member should be able to create a new topic.

Please confirm ?

Thanks Khorvat but the question is different. We want Users to create new Discussion boards (Forums) on new subjects which they nominate. We don't want any Admin leading this. Thanks

Sorry for misunderstanding but your question stated "... is to enable all users to add a new discussion topic ..." although the Topic title is different.

Ok, there is a way to do so by adding Registered, or Users role (which every you use for your registered users) to web.config setting called DiscussionAdministratorRoles. Downside of  this approach is that everybody would have administrative permission on every board in the system. One other approach would be to amend DiscussionBoard WebPart and override permissions for "Add new discussion board", a bit more work but with this approach you can accomplish exactly what you are looking for.

Let me know how would you like to proceed?

Regards

Thanks, I'm looking for settings which enable the override permissions for "Add new discussion board" but cannot see this. Are you expecting this change to be made in the source code?

Yes, you should make that change in the source code. So you should have build your own custom solution and you need to inherit DiscussionContainer.ascx (visually) & DiscussionBoard.ascx (visually and in source code), then you should point to your DiscussionBoard.ascx and not MonoX's in the DiscussionContainer.ascx.

Now you should override the OnPreRender and set the btnNewBoard visibility.

Let us know if you need more information regarding this.

Regards

Thanks Khorvat, We don't have the full source code. Our first client has very limited budget and we cannot justify purchase of the full code as this time. Can you provide the code behind the discussion module so we can make this change ourselves. Thanks

I don't think you need the sourcecode to do inheritance like suggested above

you just need to make your own ascx (user control) as a copy of the original one (that ASP.net markup file contents are available in MonoX to see edit) and chane the aspx (page) to use it instead of the original one (can edit the page markup to do that as shown above) and also tell the .ascx (in its markup) to use your own codebehind C# class that descends from the original codebehind class of MonoX. I guess in the source code you have to override some method and after (or before, depends on the case) calling the ancestor method (sometimes some initialization method) to do your own extra stuff