By joe@www.joepilot.net on
I'm working on getting a new site up and running and am running into issues with the CVS forum module. The problem is that when I create a forum topic, it does not show up in the forum. If you would like to see what I mean, visit new.alphaetarho.org. Check out the post at the top of the page and then click the "forums" link at the top left of the page. I am using the newest forum.module from CVS.
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Taxonomy
Now any new forum topics will be associated with the taxonomy and will this be shown in your forum.
All of this information is in the installation directions for the forums module.
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That's how the old forums
That's how the old forums work. For some reason it was decided that the forum layout should be controlled by a seperate system apart from the vocabulary. I should have mentioned that I fully understand the old style forums.
I'm using 2.13 cvs and it
I'm using 2.13 cvs and it worked ok for me on kali.blkmtn.org
I created 3 forums and then posted to one of them.
-sp
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I haven't tested CVS yet,
I haven't tested CVS yet, but it absolutely is still based on vocabulary, it's just using what is known as "private vocabularies", which are controlled through a UI directly in forum settings (as opposed to having to make changes in two places -- taxo and forum -- when setting things up).
Make sure you're running the newest version of all modules, not just forum.
Do I need to create the
Do I need to create the taxonomy and the forum? I am very confused as to how this is laid out. If I have a forum taxonomy, I can select the term to associate with a node I am creating. These terms do not show up in the forum though and only match the taxonomy, not the forums.
I may just wipe the site and stick with 5.2.
I just did admin \ forum \
I just did admin \ forum \ add forum. That got me forums.
There is the familiar taxonomy stuff in the creation part there. Look at http://kali.blkmtn.org, I set up some test forums and a test container. It is much more intuitive now.
-sp
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-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
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Getting the forums to work ok...
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.
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still isnt working
i enabled the forums module then i went to taxonomy and added a vocabulary for forums with the appropriate terms, and also checked the forum topic in types and the i went to settings but there was no link for forums, so i put the link admin/settings/forum, but it was an empty page (probably doesn't exist)
could you please help.