how to allow replys to forum topics
patrickface - April 27, 2007 - 23:01
Hello
I'm using the Drupal 4.7 forum module to create threaded discussions. I've been able to create a number of standard forums for my users. The users can post topic within these forum. But no users (even the system super user) can post replys to any of the forum topics.
Can anyone suggest how to allow users to reply to forum topics?
Is the comment module
Is the comment module enabled, and then enabled for Read/Write for forum nodes?
not sure about the read/write for teh forums
Yes the comment module is enabled. But how can I check the Read/Write for forum nodes?
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Look under Settings,>content types and click configure next to forum. The default workflow is there.
You also might want to check your permissions under Access Control. Check post comments and if you like, post comments without approval.
Yes I Have these setting enabled but still no reply
Yes I have both "Check post comments and post comments without approval." checked. I also have all options under Access Control for the forum checked.
But still no user (logged in as admin, normal user or ...) can reply to a topic.
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Darn. One thing you can check: each post has a workflow just like the default settings we talked about above. Look at the edit page for one of the posts and right under the text box it says comment settings. Click that and you will have another set of
Disabled
Read only
Read/Write
If Read/Write is not checked there's your problem. You just have to check it for all the posts individually. New posts should be ok.
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if your read/write is correctly set for the forum topic content type; you will have to rattle off the contrib modules that you have installed so a possible conflict can be investigated.
still not working here is a summary of my settings
Hello
I put together a short summary of my settings hoping this will help. (drupal 4.7)
I've check the forums form a number of different user logins but still can not reply to a posting.
Home » administer
comment module is Enabled (checked)
Home » administer » settings » content types
Default comment setting is Read/Write
Home » administer >> access control
authenticated user have these options checked (access comments, post comments, post comments without approval) (create forum topics, edit own forum topics)
I've checked the edit page for each of the posts to see the value set for comment settings.
I've made sure that each post is Read/Write. (previously this was not checked)
These are all the modules I have enabled:
aggregator
block
comment
contemplate
content
date
filter
forum
help
image
imagefield
img_assist
menu
node
nodeasblock
number
optionwidgets
page
poll
poormanscron
sections
story
system
taxonomy
taxonomy_access
text
tinymce
upload
user
views
views_ui
watchdog
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Taxonomy access would affect the forum module because the forum module is based on taxonomy, double check its settings.
it's getting closer!!
Hello
Thank you so much for taking the time to help me. I was able to get the reply form to display below the post. By changing the location of comment submission. (this is the only setting I changed)
Home » administer >> comments >> Posting settings >> Location of comment submission form:
I changed it to "Display below post or comments" and the reply form shows up under the post. I was hoping to get just the link to "Post new forum topic" like the user uses at the 1st level. Is that possible? Any thoughts?
HELP! this didn't work, it added comment forms to all the pages
Changing the "comments >> configure >> Posting settings" really screwed up the site. It did add a why to reply to forum posting but also added comment forms to all pages within the site.
I just want to use the forums to allow users to make topic posts and to reply to those posts.
So I had to change back the "comments >> configure >> Posting settings" back to "Display on separate page". I don't want any of the pages to allow users to post comments. I'm looking for this functionality only with the forums.
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I checked the access control and I'm allowing users to make and edit posts.
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Go back to the first step with:
and set the default workflow for the other content types to disabled. Then you can visit each post and disable comments under the text box where it says comment settings. This will at least get you to where you need to be after the problem is fixed.
Are you using a modified theme by any chance?
can't reply to forurm topics
Hello
I've gone back to the and changed all other content types to disabled and disabled comments for each post.
I am using a modified theme. How might this effect the forum topic reply?
can't post a reply to forurm topics
I noticed after I did this step all topics now have a icon with an (envelope with a lock) next to each of them. Is this a problem?
"Then you can visit each post and disable comments under the text box where it says comment settings."
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Hi patrickface,
The theme question I asked concerned this:
If the comment box was not showing up in other locations the placeholder may have been deleted when the theme was modified. You might try enabling a standard theme and see if the box shows up there.
The icon is only a problem if you don't like it, I think. That must be in your theme somewhere as I have never seen that.
Is everything else working ok?
thank you
Hello
Thank you so much for your help. I was able to get the reply to work correctly. It was a problem with both my config and the modified theme we were using.