no way to restrict forum access to users with a certain role?

Hi George,

This is possible in Drupal, but not yet in Drupal Gardens.  We are working on implementing this feature and are tracking it internally as AN-12634.  I've added your "vote" to this log. Thanks for your input!

Add my vote, too!!

Me too! This would make it easier for me to use Drupal Gardens for my clients,

Hi Shay Moore and babs4104,

I've just added your votes to our internal thread for this feature which ranks high on our Gardens roadmap.

Thanks for your interest, and we'll be sure to post back here with any updates.

Best regards,

Hi there,

Content access control is here!

For Professional Subscription plans or higher, you can now restrict access to your site's content to privileged users. Drupal Gardens provides fine-grained access control to your site’s content using Taxonomy-based access control. You can define access control rules describing which users (by role) can view, edit, or delete content. Then you can apply these access control rules to any content you want. 

For more information on what you can do with this feature, please see our latest What's New Release Announcement for the most up-to-date list of feature enhancements and bug fixes.

As usual, Professional-level subscription holders and higher may direct all inquiries to our internal ticketing system.

Thanks!

Best regards,

Hi there,

For Professional plans and higher, you can now have fine-grained access control for forum topics in Drupal Gardens!

As of our latest service update on March 12th, you can define access control rules describing which users (by role) can view, edit, or delete a forum topic. Role indicators can also be applied to forum topics to highlight which topics are restricted.

For more information on the latest Gardens feature enhancements, check out our recent 'What's New' release announcement.

Thanks!

Best regards,