Thanks for the tips. Your instructions got me most of the way. The plugin loaded fine, the Interceptor Settings page found the class, and I was able to configure the interceptor from there as well.  Unfortunately, something's not quite working yet. The interceptor is supposed to put new user's discussion messages into the moderation queue, but instead they post immediately.

The NewbieModerationInterceptor code (attached) is based on your ModerationInterceptor and worked fine with CS 1.6.  For the plugin version, I added some additional setters for GroupManager and StatusLevelManager to import the properties from my spring.xml file, and I verified that they are being initialized properly. I also updated various other declarations and statements to match the ones in the latest ModerationInterceptor (CS 2.5.13).

I added a bunch of log statements to see if the code was executing, and it appears to function correctly except that the final assignment (line 53) is effectly ignored.

        forumManager.setModerationValue(message, JiveConstants.MESSAGE_MODERATION_HIDDEN);

Since it didn't work, I also tried the statement used in the banMessageInterceptor:

        ModerationUtil.forceContentObjectModeration(message);

This was even worse, since it yielded a NullPointerException.

I put the first call back in, but can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. Am I using the wrong call to send the message to moderation?

I'll also attach the last few hours of our clearspace.log. The last test using forumManager was done at 18:53, and the one using ModerationUtil was done at 16:31.

Excellent, thanks! I just tested the plugin after making your suggested changes and it works great now.

The only minor caveat is that all moderated messages used to show up in my moderation queue (as a system admin and global moderator in CS 1.6). Now the only way I could see the moderation queue for a community was to explicitly set myself as moderator for that community, even though moderation was showing as inherited on the Permission Summary. Is that the expected behavior now?

Bruce

I just ran through another set of tests (on our development system) and none of the 3 admins can see a newly-posted moderated message. All 3 of us have all 5 permission types checked on the Console -> Spaces -> Permissions page. I even tried explicitly setting my Moderator Content privilege at the 1st-level (not root) community, and still couldn't see a moderated message from its sub-community. Only after explicitly setting myself as a moderator of that subcommunity could I get a moderated post to appear in my queue.

It's not that onerous to add myself to each community, I guess. OTOH, if user-generated social groups take off, I'm not sure if this will make our newbie plugin put messages in a queue that nobody is moderating.

Bruce

OK. Thanks for the clarification. In our case, we wrote the Newbie interceptor so only a tiny percentage of posts would go to moderation. Enabling moderation at the root level would totally defeat the purpose (and make our moderators rather grumpy ).

I like the way that CS 1.6 handles this, and think that an Admin (or "global moderator") should be able to access all the active moderation queues by simply electing to "Moderate Content" at the root-level "Admins & Moderators" page. Right now I believe this setting is pointless (unless you want to moderate every item in every community).

And if I understand you correctly, I suggest that someone modify the document/dicussion explanation on your root "Moderation Settings" page. Shouldn't it say it applies to "All spaces, projects, and social groups" instead of just "All social groups"?

Thanks again,

Bruce