Search Form? Email notification?

Search function will be added in future versions.

Any development on search or subscription? seems like both of these are pretty much standard fare for a forum.

Has any body had success with any of the notification, subscription modules?

** I noticed in the styles folder for naked, there is a template file for searching. It sends a get variable to a search widget. Is this working some place?

It works in Drupal 6. Because the functionality relied on Node Comment, it's quite possible it wasn't ported to Drupal 7.

Hello Michelle,

Thank you so much for the fast response, and all your work on this.

I did find the Subscriptions module and I am testing it out now. There is a Beta for D7, crossing fingers now.

When you say Node Comment, are you referring to search functionality? Is there anything specific I should be looking for to have search on my forum topics (and comments)?

The reason I ask is because I can not find a search feature on my forum. I added the drupal search in a block, but it always returns "No Results", even when I go to advanced search and search only on Forum content.

Thanks again.

** edit **
The built in Drupal search does seem to find the forum topic, but not the comments. Again, any help would be appreciated.

The Node Comment module is required for the forum specific searches because it's a Views based search and that requires the thread to be a view rather than the normal node + comments.

The Drupal search isn't thread or forum specific but should work just fine on forum content. Possibly you haven't indexed your site.

Michelle

Since this topic is 5 year old, Has any one yet figured out any other way to add search form in the Advanced Forum? Thanks.

In search of solution for incorporating the search form to the forum pages, I have posted the question on Drupal Answers as well and found the solution. I am quoting the answer as it is under 1.

1. Embedding advanced search form view in the forum

You need to display the exposed filters in a block, and then display that block on single forum node pages.

Here's how to do that:

1. Edit the Forum Search view: /admin/structure/views/view/advanced_forum_search/edit.
2. Under "Exposed form" -> "Exposed form in block" choose "Yes".
3. Save the view.
4. Navigate to /admin/structure/block.
5. Enable the "Exposed form: advanced_forum_search-page" block, and show it for example in the "Content" area and only for "Forum topic" nodes. You can change this to your liking of course.

Users now can use this form from single forum nodes, and submitting it will take them to the search page.

Link: How to add Search form/Advanced search form view to advanced forum pages?

By this way you can add the advanced search form view at to top, under the title of the forum and you can also specify on which page it should appear and on which page not.

2. Other similar approach:

1. Inspired from the above answer and with some more research I have found other solution also. For this you can use Custom search module. As custom search module has a feature of defining the option to search the content for perticular content type, and this way you can define only Forum, which you can enable from the module configuration. And moreover, you can set that option as drop-down option same as provided by the advanced search form view. See attached image. Now this all thing comes as a block.

2. Now you can embed this block in the forum under the title of the forum as per method mentioned in the first option.

Image for the 1 approach mentioned in the comment #8.

Image for the 1 approach mentioned in the comment #8.