By BarisW on

Hi there,

When I try to submit a forum topic, I'm unable to select to which forum the topic belongs. The whole taxonomy part of the submit-form has gone. All forum-categories do exists thought, but they won't appear on the forum submit form. I only have a title and a body field.

I tried uninstalling the forum and reinstalling it, but that didn't solve the issue.
Recently I upgraded from 5.1 to 5.2 Could this have caused this problem? Everything else seems to work fine.

Please help!

Kind regard,

B. Wanschers
Sixcolored

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Comments

cog.rusty’s picture

cog.rusty commented

This usually happens when you delete the Forums taxonomy vocabulary and then create a new Forums vocabulary yourself. The initial Forums vocabulary has a "special" ID which is kept in the database in the 'variable' table, in the row "forum_nav_vocabulary".

the Forums vocabulary you are actually using must be a single hierarchy, must apply to the "forum" node type, and must have the ID (vid) contained in the "forum_nav_vocabulary" entry.

This ID must agree with the vocabulary ID (vid) in the 'vocabulary' and the 'vocabulary_node_types' tables. So you have to make everything use the same forums vid in the database. (Not the 'vid' is the 'forum' table, that one is a revision ID, not a vocabulary ID.)

If the forum is new and and you don't care to drop it, you can clean up things this way:

http://drupal.org/node/169078#comment-263873

Perhaps i have been too thorough there, and you will be OK with steps 3.4.5 and 9.

BarisW’s picture

BarisW commented

Hi Rusty,

thanks for you thorough reply.
I followed al your steps (uninstalled and re-installed the forum), but this didn't work.

Still the taxonomy (select forum) didn't show up.
When I re-read your reply, I saw you mentioned the 'vocabulary' and the 'vocabulary_node_types' tables. When I looked in the database, it occured that there was no 'forum' entry in the vocabulary_node_types! I inserted it manually (1, forum) and this did the trick. Thanks so much for your help :)

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jhun vert’s picture

jhun vert commented

Thank you thank you thank you, it works...