I’m working on a bug tracker as described by Lisa Wess.

However, it hasn’t been divulged how you would go about allowing only the author and admin comment on a raised bug.

Has anyone taken it this far?

Let’s see- entries are simply weblog entries.  So an easy way- I’d use an embed to include the comment form- nest it inside the weblog tag- conditionally embed it only if the author_id is the same as the logged in member id OR group_id==1 (or whatever ids your admins have).  Not as ironclad as checking during the actually submission (which wouldn’t be particularly hard using a hook/extension), but I suspect it would do the trick in most situations. 

Make sense?

would

work? Can’t see too many examples of this type of conditional.

That should work, except that you need to compare an id to an id (you’re doing id-username).

So something along these lines:

That still leaves you with the check for group id, which should be similar.  As Robin mentions, this isn’t foolproof since you’re just hiding the form and not actually checking on submission.  So if someone works out the submission url they can (in theory) still post.  If this isn’t mission critical it probably isn’t a problem though.

Hmmm - no joy with that.

The existing bugs are ones that I’ve created yet the comment form doesn’t appear.

after more searching I found that entry_author_id isn’t available to me at that point.

Robin, you stated elsewhere about:

php parsed on output to set the author_id- then embed and pass that variable as an embed- could put just the comment form or the comment entries and form on the embedded template.

how would I go about that?

If you definitely prefer the php?  (And sometimes you might, for easy placement.)  It’s basically just putting

Inside the weblog tag.  At which point, you’ve got a php variable $a_id you could pass as an embed variable, use as a conditional, etc.

On the flip side- the conditional inside the weblog tag should be workable- just a bit quirky due to some parse order issues.  This worked for me in a quick test:

But either approach should be fine for the display issue.