I have never filed a support request before, but as requested by killes, here goes.

I have installed drupal 4.5.2 at http://prevenge.aetherihosting.com/~psh/naany .

I have attempted to activate the forum module. As fas I can tell, I have configured the admin and vocab and categories correctly.

Whenever I post a new topic to the forum the forum list display page, instead of adding to the number of topics displayed, the module adds a -1 new topics to the forum. the new post shows up in the 'active topics' and 'recent topics' on the front page, but does not show up in the forum. in fact, anonymous users see nothing at all.

If I have not supplied enough info or if this is not how support requests work, i apologize.

thanks!

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stelman’s picture

stelman commented

This is a duplicate of http://drupal.org/node/11298
but worth noting, as that problem was never solved.

See also:
http://drupal.org/node/12552
http://drupal.org/node/13618
http://drupal.org/node/11274

Carlos Miranda Levy’s picture

Carlos Miranda Levy commented

There are some discrepancies between the treatment of nodes as articles and forums.

Even though you can enable any vocabulary to include "forum topic" nodes, that seems to be a bug or a legacy option from previous versions, for you can only effectively publish forum posts to the terms created under the vocabulary you specify as the "forum vocabulary".

So, here's what I did and advise others to do:

1. go to your taxonomy and make sure that the "forum topic" node type is not selected under "Types:" for each vocabulary.

2. create a new vocabulary just for forums and select the "forum topic" node type under "Types:".

3. go to /admin/settings/forum

4. Select your new forum vocabulary as the "Forum Vocabulary" (it should be the only one available if you followed steps 1 and 2 correctly).

5. Click on the Save Configuration button at the bottom of the page.

and you're set to go.

Now, when users select create content/forum topic, they will only be able to post to the terms under the "forum vocabulary", which are the only ones listed under the /forum page.

I hope this helps others.

I read somewhere that v4.6 comes with improved handling of forums by the way.

forngren’s picture

forngren commented
Status: Active » Postponed
forngren’s picture

forngren commented
Status: Postponed » Closed (fixed)

I misunderstood the word postponed... won't happen again