By skinnydog on
I have battling this for days. Has anyone got the Forum Module to work?
I can POST the Forum categories. The show up on Forum.
When I post a new Forum Topic they do not show up on the Forum page...
I have battling this for days. Has anyone got the Forum Module to work?
I can POST the Forum categories. The show up on Forum.
When I post a new Forum Topic they do not show up on the Forum page...
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Works fine
The forum module is working just fine for me and thousands of other people... I can't make enough sense out of your post to tell what might be wrong. Could you explain it more, please?
Michelle
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My site: http://shellmultimedia.com
Don't think so.
I looked though other Forum posts and seems others have had this problem but it has never been resolved.
http://drupal.org/node/84180
I am using Drupal 5.1 I installed the required modules for Forum.
I added the Forum Categories throught Admin->forum they show on the /forum page.
When I "post new forum topic" the topics will not show up on the Forum page.
it says 0 topics etc.
Also I do not have the option to select what category I want the Forum topic to be in.
They forum topics exist as content but are not associated with the Forum.
Hi. My past experiences are
Hi. My past experiences are quiet smooth for forums. I cannot figure whats going on wrong at your end with this much of data. But can guide you through a simple way.
Make sure that you follow all points and I think it should be done.
1) Goto Administer->Site Building->Modules, in that check forum module. Forum module to work here is dependent on content and taxonomy module. So make sure that taxonomy and comment module are enabled. If they are enabled than drupal will show that they are enabled.
2) Goto Administer->Site Building->Blocks, in that provide appropriate display area for "New forum topics", "Active forum topics". If you do not want to display any one of them just select none.
3) Goto Administer->Content Management->Forums.
(i) Add Container. Keep parent as root only.
(ii) Add Forum. Now select already created container as parent over here.
4) Goto Create Content->Forum Topic, Provide appropriate topic name and description. In parent select appropriate forum. You can select container also but it is not best practice. Best practice will be to select forum under some container.
Submit this forum topic and you are done.
Topic will appear on that side of your content that you might have selected in step (2). If you are not able to still find it than log out once as it may happen that due to other conditions of block you may not see on all pages so just log out and start from main page.
I think this should help. Feel free to ask more.
Nehal Mehta,
Chief Solution Architect,
openMalo
Nope not it.
Hi nehalmehta,
Thanks for the response. This did not help :(
WhenI got to post the new forum topic I did not see any parent select.
The Forum topic did show up in the "new forum topics" block though.
Note I also have "Categories" installed maybe it is conflicting?
Arg this driving me a little insane.
-scott
there are a few resolutions
there are a few resolutions in that thread you link to.
if you have the categories.module installed (the conrtib one) you need to read the documentation on the developers website, which should be listed in the install.txt becauase that modules affects any module that uses taxonomy, which the core forum.module does indeed use.
your problem is corrrected by importing the original taxonomy and turning on a some sort of wrapper. I stopped using the category.module about a year ago, so I cann't comment any further.
I wonder why I installed Category...
Thanks.
No I am wondering why installed this category module.
"Categories" can be
"Categories" can be conflicting. But I do not think it should be problem here. Please write more what you use in "Categories". But as "New forum topics" is visible there should not be problem with "Categories"
Also check this stuffs:
1) Goto Administer->Site Building->Blocks, now go to "Configure" of "New Forums topics" or "Active forum topics". Select which is visible somewhere on your site. I mean one you have selected to be displayed.
i) In "Block title" just give name which you want to display instead of "New Forum topics".
ii) In "Customer Visibility Settings" select "Users cannot control whether or not they see this block" option.
iii) In "Show block for specific roles" do not select any users so it remains visible to all users.
iv) In "Show block on specific pages" select "Show on every page except the listed pages" option.
You said "New forum topic" is visible but you cannot add topic.
To add topic you must goto "Create Content" -> "Start Forum Topic", I think at that place you should see forum in parent option.
Now log out and login. I think this should help.
Please feel free to ask.
Nehal Mehta,
Chief Solution Architect,
openMalo
I disagree
That's the most likely thing to be the problem here. As VM said, you need the taxonomy wrapper and other fiddling to get Category and default taxonomy based stuff like forums to play nice together.
OP: If you don't need Category, uninstall it. It's not worth the headaches unless you have a reason to use it.
Michelle
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My site: http://shellmultimedia.com
removing Categories worked
thanks everyone.