By pnlnl on
I have a problem with the forums, and that is ''posts don't appear'', well i create the forums, add the categories, and it is ready for use, but when someone(even me) uses it like directly posting a topic from there it doesn't appear, nor by creating a forum topic by using create content, nothing appears in the forums, but if i promote the topic to the frontpage it appears only there...
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well i will list the things that i have
maybe smth is causing a conflict:
drupal 5.5 (upgraded from 5.3)
Modules
cck
content templates - content - content copy - embedded media field - embedded media import - feildgroup - embedded image field - node reference - number - option widgets - text - user reference - embedded video field
core optional
aggregator(disabled) - blog - blog api - book(disabled) - color (disabled) - comment (enabled) - contact(disabled) - drupal(disabled) - forum(i don't what i should do) - help(disabled) - legacy(disabled) - locale (disabled) - menu - path - ping(disabled) - poll - profile - search - statistics - taxonomy - throttle(disabled) - tracker(disabled) - upload
optional
remember me
other
autologout(disabled) - bookmark us - chatroom -simple invite - token
one more thing the modules are listed in order
EDIT: i have been reading about modules in the guidebookp, and i noticed that in current versions of drupal every module has a weight, i suspect that this could be the problem, could it be? and if it is how can i reset the weight of the module?
This doesn't really sound
This doesn't really sound like a weighting problem.
If you go to Administer -> Content -> Categories, do you have a vocabulary named Forums? While editing the Forums vocabulary, is the content type Forum topic checked? This associates the "Forum topic" with the vocabulary that controls the "containers" and "forums" for the forum module. Sometimes, if the forum module has been disabled and then re-enabled, the vocabulary loses the association with the Forum topic content type.
--keith
well yes i disabled
all the ''disable-able'' modules before upgrading to version 5.5, and maybe i did this also even after fully upgrading(don't remember) so if this is the problem.. i will have a look, for the moment i have the forum module disabled, i will re-enable it, and i will see this if this is the case
well that's what happened
i activated the module, went to the to the categories clicked on the forum, and i found that the forum checkbox is forcibly checked(you can't uncheck it) so i said everything must be fine now, i added a forum topic, then tried to post but it didn't work,,
i gave the categories section another spin, and i looked carefully, so i noticed that the type is missing(in the categories main menu) even if it is forcibly checked when i try to edit the vocabulary, so i deleted it, made a forums categorie manually and added forums to its vocab,... then i tried to post a topic it worked.
so i went back to have a final look on the categories only to see that there is another forums categorie, which displays forum topic and has the checkbox forcibly checked, so i deleted the forums vocab that i created and tried to post a smth there and it also worked this time, but one thing though before asking for help, i have tested multiple times but disabling and enabling the module, deleting everything related(including the forums categorie) disabling, checking if truly everthing is deleted, then enabling, and it didn't work, but as you see the method i used in my last try worked(at least for me), anyway i wonder if what happened to me is some sort of bug, i will abstain from talking further because i am indeed no expert and my knowledge here is very very basic(even below this) so i hope this will be helpful to others, and
thanks man for pointing me in the right direction, because i got to things way bigger than my head(for the moment)
so that's it problem resolved...
I'm glad you got it working,
I'm glad you got it working, even if you did have to "fiddle" with it a bit.
Note that for future versions, this should be handled automatically (see this issue http://drupal.org/node/199373 for Drupal 6 which was committed yesterday).
--keith
thanks another time, but Just a dumb question
Is version 6 of drupal compatible with version 5 modules
because i can't see any modules for version 6... i am thinking of upgrading,
well yes i know that i should check some announcements here and posts before asking, but i am too lazy and fatigued( have been working on my site for fives now with only five hours of rest a day, glad that i finally got into drupal).
Drupal 6 is in Release
Drupal 6 is in Release Candidate 1 stage, which means release is coming soon, but won't be immediate. There are about 9 critical issues left as of a few moments ago. Read more about this here.
But, many (or most) modules have not been updated for Drupal 6 compatibility, although people are actively working on this now that 6 has reached RC1 stage. This link has information on Drupal 6 contributed module status.
--keith
well that's good
i guess i'll stick with v5.x for now because i am a noob, i wouldn't be able to be much of a help, catchu later i guess
old post .....but I had the
old post .....but I had the same problem....
All I did was:
1. disable Forums module
2. save
3. enable forums module
4. save.
As previous have mentioned, disabling the FORUMS module (for upgrading), 'dislodges' Forum topics from the Forum Topic vocabulary.
Doing the 4 above steps, and nothing else, worked for me.