Hello all,
The company I work for is trying to put together a question & answers site, similar to Yahoo! Answers, but only relating to technology questions. I've searched the forums for this type of functionality and did manage to come across one or two posts that proved useful. However, one of the suggestions was to use the NodeComment module to display 'answers' (one node type) to 'questions' (another node type). The only problem with that was we couldn't get the answers to show up under the question nodes. It was configured correctly, the answer nodes were set to be the 'comments' for the question nodes, but they still never showed up.
We've also seen suggestions of using the topic module. It looks great and would probably be best, but it's only for Drupal 4.6 and we currently are using Drupal 5.2.
One other thing we would like not to do is not use forums for the questions and answers system.
If anyone has continued reading this far, I applaud you! :-)
I would like to ask for any kind of advice or suggestions anyone has to offer.
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Hm, well I just tried out
Hm, well I just tried out using nodecomments to achieve this on my local install it worked fine. I am using the beta3 version. Which version are you using? One other thing I have done in the past with non-showing default views (this is a views display issue if the comments don't show) is to go to Administer > Site building > Views and click Add next to default view. This will open up a screen to edit and override the default. Just save it as is and see if the view works.
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I will try what you
I will try what you suggested. :-) I believe we have the beta version as well, but will probably use the official release on our production site.
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There is also, a question.module for Drupal 5.x in the downloads area, see : http://drupal.org/project/question
We have looked at the
We have looked at the question module, and the only reason we didn't use it is because we want everyone to be able to post and answer questions, not just the 'experts'.
Re: questions and answers without using the questions module.
I think thats a brilliant idea as suggested by add1sun I had a similar problem:- A new node is created and i would like anyone to ask a question but only the author of the post to be able to answer the question.
Solution:
Use the existing comments module & in the template for the node.tpl.php add in funtionality for where author of comment does not = author of node then DIV for Question and where author = author of node then Div for answer.
Crude but effective.
Nash
Example site
The site Mothersclick.com has a great Q and A going. I'd like to know what is used to make it happen. It might be the comment system mentioned here. Any ideas?