Kunena/plg_kunenadiscuss-1.6 — Issue #31: Kunena Discuss 1.7: Unpublished articles create forum topics
Author: sozzled
Created: 2011-11-21 00:22:13+00:00
State: open

When you are drafting a Joomla article (i.e. before the article has been published) it is not possible to prevent the creation of a forum topic when you view the article (obviously you need to have Author/Publisher/Administrator rights to see and edit unpublished articles).

One way that can help is if you use the tag {kunena_discuss:0} within the article to stop the creation of a forum topic. This only works, however, if the topic has been published. The issue here is how to hide the fact that you in the process of drafting an article.

On the one hand you cannot draft an article in Joomla without creating a forum topic: in other words, the {kunena_discuss:0} tag is not honoured by the Kunena Discuss plugin. On the other hand, you may not want to publish the article until other conditions are met. For example, you might be writing an article that talks about a new release of Kunena (say, on the K.org website) but not show that article until the new release of Kunena is available. This is a difficult issue for any website manager.

It would be a lot easier if the Kunena Discuss plugin checks to see if the article is published and, then, if someone views the topic, create a forum topic. In such cases it would not even be necessary to add a {kunena_discuss:0} tag at all! It also means that, when the article is published at a later date, the author does not have to remove the tag if they want to allow discussions.

It's a bug.