In order to make Elgg a viable option at my school, I need to prevent students from providing access to material to the public. All must be restricted to logged in, groups, or private. (unless there is a way to moderate that which is public: user submit and admin publish)
Anyone have a quick and easy way to remove it as an option? I'm looking through the code and may find a solution myself.
I also may need to close rss feeds. Probably can work that out too.
It may sound draconian, but this is the only way it will pass muster.
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You must log in to post replies.Great Dave! I can work my way through making a plugin to do 1 and 3. Sounds like you have a plan for 2.
Thanks!
I see where to edit engine/lib/access.php
What I can't get is the start.php for the plugin. Not sure what to hook into.
Diego pointed to a clever way to do much of this using the views system: http://community.elgg.org/pg/pages/view/4834/
Unfortunately, it is not bulletproof and I need to have it bulletproof as I see access levels being changed by users as the move from private drafts.
I hope to offer a k12 plugin for educators Nov 23, so others can jump into using Elgg for schools.
Well, I just got it to work and have created a plugin that removes "public" as an option when creating content. Next step is to disable rss feeds.
I'll put out the plugin shortly!
Steve
I combined this with the Walled Garden plugin. It removes the public option for access and the RSS/OpenDD options on the owner's block. I called it Higher Walls.