Ever since I installed (and uninstalled) ACL for forum management, I now have a major problem. Anytime I create a forum topic, it's not listed on the forum container page even though the topic exists... Permission are fine and the appropriate people can view the topic if I directly link them to it...

Also, when I use the forum in conjunction with OG (OG Forum), new topics are posted to each group's "portal page" but again, are not listed anywhere in the forum container listing. It still shows 0 topics, 0 replies.

I've completely removed ACL and rebuilt the permissions... that did not fix the problem. Perhaps ACL has left permission traces somewhere in the DB and is causing this headache?

Please advise. Thank you.

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salvis
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Please look at your node_access table. If you don't have any other access modules installed, then it should contain a single row:

+-----+-----+---------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| nid | gid | realm         | grant_view | grant_update | grant_delete |
+-----+-----+---------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
|   0 |   0 | all           |          1 |            0 |            0 |
+-----+-----+---------------+------------+--------------+--------------+

This is what [Rebuild permissions] should do for you.

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pxlpshr commented

There are 10 pages of stuff.... the only "access module" i have is OG... if that's even classified as an access module. Also, via phpMyAdmin, how do I get an ASCII dump of the table like you've posted?

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pxlpshr commented

Well, I disabled OG access control... completely removed everything from node_access table... and forums are still being quirky. When I re-enabled OG access control, everything was rebuilt... effectively creating about 10 pages worth of node_access rows.

I went ahead and made a new topic... and the permissions are correct... The problem is, it just doesn't list the new post anywhere on the forum listing/container page... even though it shows a new topic was created on the group's home page.

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pxlpshr commented

I fixed the issue by deleting the forum category entirely from Content Management > Category...

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salvis
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Thanks for reporting back! I don't understand what happened, but I'm glad you've been able to fix it.

Could this have been related to http://drupal.org/node/175957?

Please let me know of you find out anything else...

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pxlpshr commented

No problem salvis, and no... #175957 doesn't seem to be related. Here's what I think happened:

When I first got my hands on Drupal, I spent a lot of time 'fiddling' with the different modules... at one point I had installed the forum module but later removed it, perhaps without doing a proper uninstall. So using the same install of Drupal, I began working on our corporate site.

Recently, we decided to open private forums for our developers so when I re-installed the module, I suppose the category was already created but referenced an old forum for which no longer existed; this is why forum posts could be created and viewed but were not being sorted to the proper forum container.

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salvis
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Status: Active » Fixed

Thanks for the explanation!

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Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.