Re: Can Permalink be disabled or winked out?

Posted by GregChapman on Dec 30, 2016; 1:01pm
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Can-Permalink-be-disabled-or-winked-out-tp7597600p7597613.html

I have now read the other post and see there is the URL of your forum there, so I have investigated further.

I find that it appears unembedded. That suggests the code found at:
Options > Embedding options
has not been successfully inserted in the page on your main site. From the posts here I know a number of Weebly and Wix site owners have difficulties in finding the correct options within those site builders to get the code inserted in the right way. You might require help from Weebly to sort that out.

I also see that the removal of the branding has failed as that still appears.

However, far more critical to the maintenance and customisation of the forum is that not just the the Permalink link is missing but the entire set of links "Refresh  Permalink  Login  Register". So it's possible you have done more than removing the links and disabled the actual login macros in some way. The links are not just missing from the Login screen, but also the registration screen as well, the only two pages I can reach.

Unfortunately, I can't investigate further as, for some reason, the captcha required is not displaying on your site in any browser I use, so I am unable to register.

Because Nabble can take a long time to respond and if you are still only at the stage of developing your Nabble forum, it might be easier to abandon your current forum, create a new one and start again - though it would need to use a slightly different name to your current one.

You might want to take a look at http://www.aivuk.org.uk/members.html to see an example of a site that uses only Nabble's own security to control access. While anyone can register at any Nabble forum, on the AIVuk site you will find that registration gains you nothing as access is only granted to those who have been assigned manually to the forum's "Members" group. You can find more about different user groups from my post at:
http://support.nabble.com/Moderating-free-forum-tp6873076p6873871.html

However, in your case you will need to continue to use Weeby's access system as Nabble has no automated way of linking access to a subscription. Nevertheless, I still say that with correct embedding you should not need to delete the "Permalink" feature as the Nabble forum should never appear unless the visitor has access to the page in which the forum is embedded and you will control that through Weebly's facilities.