Question

Is there a way to allow general users to comment on a topic without being able to edit it?

I guess 2 extreme solutions are:

1. give everyone edit access and write "please do not edit this topic" at the top. Unwanted changes can be reversed.
2. put the text in a topic which most people can't edit, and use INCLUDE to put it into an editable topic with a comments box. If we needed lots of such topics, there would be a lot of doubling up.

Is there a middle ground?

Environment

-- TamsinTweddell - 05 Nov 2007

Answer

If you answer a question - or someone answered one of your questions - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status selector is below the edit box.

I would go for the second solution. This is in fact how the Blog app on twiki.org works. If you add a comment to a FooBar topic it creates a FooBarComments topic. This cold be done even across webs. See examples in WebChanges.

-- PeterThoeny - 11 Dec 2007