Forums with Category Module

did you use the taxonomy wrapper module and run that first on the existing taxonomy of forums ? if not it needs to be done. may benefit you to take a look at the documentation on the developers website which I believe is listed on the project page or in the install.txt or readme.txt. category.greenash.net or something.

I am also seeing this behaviour

using a fresh install no old forums etc

book & taxonomy wrappers are installed

it sounds like an old bug which existed and I was caught out by before see http://drupal.org/node/140204

Tkgafs

im having the same problem as well with the Category module version 1.1. I can create Forums, Containers and Forum topics, but when i list the forums tree my all Forum appear empty and i can only access the topics through the node listing. I have the Taxonomy wrapper installed.

What do you mean when you suggest we use the "taxonomy wrapper module"? I do not see anything called a taxonomy wrapper module; I have Taxonomy installed and have the same problems. The same behavior can be observed with categories applied to Acidfree albums. This is a completely fresh install, with no old forums.

I note that Taxonomy in 5.1 indicates that it depends on Category, and not the other way around.

I had this problem in 4.7 and thought it was my installation, but maybe it isn't?

i had a different problem...most of my forum containers are gone..some forum posts are visible..dunno what happened..someone can help?

also i cant seem to find the option to make a book page too..
help please
:(

I think category module has some problems with forums module, even use taxonomy wrapper.
First, if you have forums and install category, you will lose all you forums contains and categories. so be careful.
second, if you set your forums contain again, category module treat it a categories not container.

I delete my former categories and terms of forums because it did not show on my forums anymore.
and set up new container form content->fourms, but I found I have same issue that i can not post any topic to my forums.
I have installed wrapper and update the program.

I've converted the existing Forums on our site from Taxonomy to Category, and it seems to work OK.

--- First, after enabling the Taxonomy-wrapper, you need to import the old Taxonomy data into Categories using the Category_legacy module. Additionally, you need to have that module patched, to update forum-specific data - my patch seen here http://drupal.org/node/158683 is now commited, so hopefully it'll be all OK soon.

--- Second, to run Forum with Category, you need to fix some small bugs. There is a code from bdragon somewhere in the Issues, called like 'Category compatibility forum' module, which works fine for me. I seem unable to find the Issue now (due to my time limitations), but I'm sure it exists somewhere.

Thanks, JirkaRybka.
I finally solve this issue following Jaza's tips.
I copy them and paste here. Hope this is useful for those having same issues.
"Using forum with category
Submitted by Jaza on 25 April 2006 - 12:57pm.
"Here are some detailed instructions for using forum with the categoryi module:
1. Install category, the taxonomy wrapperi, and forum.
2. Go to your site's administer -> forums page. The first time that you access this page, forum automatically creates a 'Forums' vocabulary (which then automatically triggers the taxonomy wrapper to create a corresponding 'Forums' containeri).
3. Go to your site's administer -> categories page, and verify that the 'Forums' container has been created.
4. Go back to administer -> forums, and create all of your site's forums and containers on this page, and not on the administer -> categories page (the word containers is used here in the forum module sense, not in the category module sense).
5. To create new forum topics, either go to create content -> forum topic, or click the post new topic link from one of your forums.
I just tested this now, with latest HEAD versions of Drupal and Category, and it all works fine for me.

Pasted from http://category.greenash.net.au/taxonomymodules#comment-30 "

"submitted by Jaza on April 26, 2006 - 00:12
One further tip that might help you: have a look in the 'variable' table in your DB, and see if there's a variable defined called 'forum_nav_vocabulary'. The forum module uses this variable to remember the vocabulary that it creates, and there doesn't seem to be any way to reset this, if for some reason you need to switch to a different vocabulary after first installing.
So if there's a row for that variable, delete it, and then clear your site's cache (SQL: 'TRUNCATE TABLE cache'). Also delete any forum containers / vocabularies that may have already been created. Then try following my instructions again.
Pasted from http://drupal.org/node/59728 "
By the way, thanks bdragon and VeryMisunderstood, they are very very helpful.

I recheck my forum today, another problem is about category_display.module

"warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in sites/all/modules/category/category_display/category_display.module on line 286."
so I go to admin-module disable it and it is OK now.

But I found even though I can post topics but all topics show"this topic has been removed".

what is this problem ? thanks

I try to uninstall taxonomy wrapper and found page
"example.com/category/wrapper/taxonomy/uninstall" not found.

Over a year of silence, plus sort-of duplicate of #117172: Analysis: Forum, so closing this one.