The table on the forums page lists the forums everything alphabetically. Forums that are not inside a container and containers are treated alike. So if you do not use weight for ordering, it is not clearly visible which forum inside a container and which is not. You can see this here: http://limmertime.de/drupal-modultest/forum

Only thing is forums outside a container are not indented.

It would make sense to list all forums that are not inside a container at the top, which makes it more clear. One can sort this out by applying lesser weight to those forums, but what if not and if someone is new to Drupal and not used to the weight system.

Forums that are not inside containers should get lesser weight by default, so they are always on top if you don't change any weights.

If weights are applied manually, things change, but in this case the user will be aware why.

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michelle’s picture

michelle
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Version: 5.5 » 7.x-dev

Feature requests need to go against 7.x.

Michelle

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mgifford
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The link provided doesn't work. This is a link to my sandbox for D7 - http://drupal7.dev.openconcept.ca/forum

I think in terms of weight though we're actually looking at the structure page http://drupal7.dev.openconcept.ca/forum#overlay=admin/structure/forum

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eigentor commented

Baa, core forum is a mess :)
Is this pure stark styling?

I cannot make out any containers from that (which is a bug in itself).

Advanced forum displays containers as seperate tables.
Mike, got the energy for working on this? This must definitely be much improved in D8 - best and easiest would be to incorporate the best changes that Advanced Forum makes.

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Ya, it does certainly need attention.

I've just made Stark the default here:
http://drupal7.dev.openconcept.ca/forum

I've also made a clear test container & sub- container...

Just noticed that Advanced Forums hasn't got a D7 beta or signed the #D7CX pledge..

I can't see having the time to take on being the forum maintainer. I'm looking at the accessibility stuff and that takes a good chunk out of my day as it is. Sorry. Hopefully someone will step forward though.

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I need to get D6 done first before I can worry about D7, but it will be ported.

Michelle

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Can someone explain to me how in admin/structure/forum the forum_overview() function is grabbing the tabledrag (I assume from modules/taxonomy/taxonomy.admin.inc) differently from admin/structure/taxonomy

I'm trying to get my head around what is different here and for that matter how ordering forums is supposed to work in the forums.

Mike

Status: Active » Closed (outdated)

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