advanced_forum_topic_list view show "this topic has been moved to"

advanced_forum_topic_list has its own custom style provided by the advanced_forum_plugin_style_forum_topic_list class.

One of the functions in that class - get_forum_ids() - tries to work out what the forum ID(s) for the current page are.

The theme preprocessing in template_preprocess_advanced_forum_topic_list_view.inc compares the forum each topic is assigned to (topic_actual_forum) with the forum id(s) as provided by the get_forum_ids() function. The purpose of this is to identify topics which have been moved to other forums (shadow topics) and leave a sign post in the old location so visitors can find the topic in its new location.

As far as I can see, the problem you're having edubacco, is that the page display you've created with advanced_forum_topic_list doesn't seem to actually represent any one forum, so every topic appears to belong elsewhere.

I believe you should be able to prevent every topic from showing up as a 'shadow' by editing the settings of "Style: Forum topic list" for your page display, and setting 'Source of forum ID:' to none.

However, I've not tried this. Please let us know if it works for you.

my specific issue was related to taxonamy access control, forum access and taxonomy working in collusion to thwart my users best efforts; specifically during any insert or update nodeapi operation. So i hacked up AF to check to ensure a forum record existed if a term_node record existed because i think they should be in sync for forum node types. if the forum record was deleted, i recreated it from the info in term_node.

but take this with a grain of salt. my site has nearly 100 modules attempting to work together so i could have gotten this all wrong.

Glad it worked.

i resolved this deleting an 'override this field', but i don't remember which.