Come together with the global Drupal community in Rotterdam, 28 Sept – 1 Oct 2026. Sessions, contribution, connection, and Early Bird savings until 8 June.When you create a custom content type, you should be able to specify if the node should also inherit of the forum node type. That would allow any custom-defined node to appear as a forum thread if a forum taxonomy is defined for it.
Another possibility would be to implement an option (check box) in the publishing options of the submit form, along with the "publish on front page and snippet options". This option, if checked, would provide forum node behavior to any other kind of node and would display any kind of nodes (including story, book, page) as a forum thread if a forum taxonomy is defined for it.
Related forum topic I had initiated to try to solve that:
http://drupal.org/node/99611
Comments
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heine commented5 is feature frozen; they go against the next version.
Comment #2
pasqualleComment #3
cafuego commentedThere is no forum node type, only a forum topic. Listing nodes with added comments, the way forums does, can be fairly easily achieved via views.
I expect that it makes far more sense to implement this either in advanced forum or as additional contrib module, if it is indeed still needed at all.