By paulj2sj on

On my site, when posting a new forum topic from clicking on the "post forum topic" link while on a forum category page, it does not default to the proper category. I noticed this forum page I am typing on now did default the "Forums" dropdown box to the appropriate forum.

Any ideas why this would be happening? Are there any modules that are known to interfere and cause this?

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vm commented

what path is shown in the "post forum topic" link ?

I can't think of any modules offhand that would interfere, what contributed modules are you using ?

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paulj2sj commented

path: http://www.example.com/node/add/forum/48

let me break it down for you:

address bar shows: http://www.example.com/forum/48, when i am browsing the forum category. I then click "Post new forum topic".
it takes me to: http://www.example.com/node/add/forum/48, i scroll down this page to the "categories" section, which by the way is collapsed (wish I knew how to make it always "not collapsed"). So I click "Categories" to drop this area down to see the dropdown list box. The dropdown list box has the top entry selected (which is #46), not the current current forum (48).

modules i'm using: Classified Ads, tinymce imce, pathauto

the path for the "post new forum topic" looks fine, it's like the forum module just is not telling the category forums dropdown list box to select the right forum.

Thanks.

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vm commented

If the path is correct for the link, I don't see why the forum.module wouldn't pick it up.

can you post a link to your site, and give a test user please.

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paulj2sj commented

thanks, but the site is closed off from the public. I appreciate the help though. I guess I'll have to take a look at the forum module's code and try to find out where it physically sets the dropdown box so I can see why it is not working...