I read the installation document but get confused whether or not this module is compatible with forums.

Document says "If you wish to use taxonomy-dependent Drupal modules (e.g. forum, image, glossary) with this module, you must install the taxonomy wrapper module" but it emphasizes again "either import your existing taxonomy data first, disable the taxonomy wrapper, or delete your site's taxonomy data."
use wrapper or not.
in my understanding, if I set a container and forums under content-fourms, there should be a container or category added under content-category. I don't if it is right. but after i set up forums, there is nothing under categories.

how to use this module with forums?

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vm commented

There is some documentation on the developers site that may help you with this. keep in mind too that the project page for this module specifically states ,b>Warning: There are some longstanding bugs in Category, especially when dealing with menu handling! Please research other options before deciding to go with Category, and always keep backups!

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vm commented

meant to link to dev documentation see: http://category.greenash.net.au/docs

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bdragon commented

It is possible to get Category working with forums, but it requires a lot of patience. I have posted some code somewhere that I use to improve compatibility, but you still need to know a bit about how forum internals work to get it to work correctly....

I will put some effort into making the Drupal 6 version not have so many problems with Forum.

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rimma commented

Thank very much for your replies.
I uninstall the category module and try to re-setup my forum, but I still can not post any topic to forums.

maybe I need to reinstall fourms module.

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rimma commented

Oh, I reinstall my forums module but problem is still there.

after setting up container and forums, 'post forum topic' can not post any topic because the forums options do not show up in the edit page.

How to figure it out.

thanks in advance.

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mr.andrey commented

I too am still struggling with this one.

I tried just about everything posted with various patches and manual database alterations, and now I'm at a point where I can post, but all the forum topics appear to "have been moved" with forum not being able to get the `tid` from $node->taxonomy in the forum_submit() in forum.module.

If you want to look at how I got to this point, you can look at this topic comments #37 & #38 http://drupal.org/node/59728#comment-283846, but I don't recommend following it, since I still haven't got everything working.

I really would like to get the forum working.

Andrey.

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mr.andrey commented

I got it to work by adding a line in forum.module, but it seems like the problem needs to be resolved more upstream (see post: http://drupal.org/node/167762#comment-290015).

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JirkaRybka commented

See this: http://drupal.org/node/117172

Allowed me to use Category with Forums successfully on production site, no trouble after weeks of traffic.

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mr.andrey commented

It works!

The two patches did the trick:

http://drupal.org/files/issues/forum_compat.patch - this fixed the default forum problem
http://drupal.org/files/issues/validationtry2.patch - this fixed the $node->taxonomy tid=0 problem

Thanks!
Andrey.

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JirkaRybka commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

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