Question Can't edit my posts... "New topic" opened up edit attempt's data.

I do not know what caused this, it certainly isn't intentional. Any location in which you have the ability to post, you should also have the ability to edit your own post. If you don't have the ability to edit, you probably also shouldn't be able to post in that section. The only place I tried to get 'fancy' with configuration would be the Fab Lab, which should only allow the thread creator to post or edit in that thread. No one else should be able to generate reply posts. Or at least, I intended to set it up that way... I don't remember if I actually did or not.

I haven't changed the permissions on forums sections (except one and it applies to almost no one) for over a year and its been two weeks or so since the last forums code update. So... I'm not sure what to tell you. I'll look into it.

Resolved?

What about in a non-support thread ... like something in the Quad? Trying to work out if its a matter of different permissions / set up in categories.

hmm... i know what i'd look for in the code if i were altering code to fix things. but i can't think of a place in admin settings that would make this possible. i'll have to check in with the forums support site and see if they did something that changed this and if its on a patch cycle. I've been through all the diagnostics for the forums and double checked the various settings and turned up nothing.

If you are transferring from forums to CMS, the most efficient way I can think of would be to pull up the forums page in "Inspect Source" and find the text of the page that includes your story. Forums posts themselves use BBC (bulletin board code) but in the site generated forums page, everything is converted to display in html... which means all your font sizing, bolds, italics, and so on will be intact using the html version of things... the only thing that you'd want to change to follow our 'ideal' encoding is that forums posts use 'soft line returns'. That means if you follow the normal empty line between paragraphs, when you inspect the code you'll see a line break < br > at the end of your paragraph and a second one on the empty line before the next paragraph. You can just do a find/replace run to put in
< /p >

< p >
in their place. and then just replace the couple lone < br > at the beginning of sections with a < p > ... that's a VERY quick transition compared to some other transfers (like from Word into the CMS).

You can always hit up one of the staff for a hand too. Dan, Phoenix and I do a lot of document to CMS conversions and we each have our routines that let us do it without it being insane.