By bwooster47 on

I am using 4.6.0, and have searched the archives on how to do Forum configuration, but my "administer" menu does not show many of the command pages listed in all the docs!

I have enabled the Forum module.
I have a category called "Topic" and all types (including Forum Topic) is enabled for this vocabulary.

I can see the administer -> forum command, and it allows me to create Forum Container, Forum Topic, and also has a third pane - Configure.
None of these allow me to attach a vocabulary.

Some help documents mentioned I should look into administer -> settings -> forum to connect vocabularies and forums, but I don't have any command at that location - administer -> settings has nothing called forums.

So, http://....mysite/forum link shows me my forum container, and forums, but they are all empty. There is a button on the page that says "Post new forum topic" and I can click on it and create new content, and assign a category from the "Topic" vocabulary (which is what I created as applying to all content types, including Forum).
But this content never gets attached to the forum.

Help!

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airfx commented

I have exactly the same probleme...

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bobcat commented

I have the same problem as well.

I want to make a heiarchy of areas on my website. And I want each area to have it's own forums. I think this is exactly what the vocabulary thing is supposed to be for, but I can't assign containers in this fashion.

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sas789 commented

I too have encountered this problem. Eagerly awaiting someone with more knowledge than me to shed light on the issue.

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sas789 commented

I gave up trying to get forums in 4.6.0 to work (after several days). I switched to 4.5.2 instead. Luckily my site hasn't gone live yet. Perhaps I will upgrade to 4.6 when someone fixes the forum issue. For my site, forums are too important not to work.

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cga commented

Exactly the same problem, but I saw forums running in the 4.6 release candidate.

Is it a recorded bug ?

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cga commented

There is a bug report associated with this problem : http://drupal.org/node/22960

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bwooster47 commented

I don't know if the bug report is the same problem listed here.

The issue I had was that I had deleted the original "Forum" vocabulary, and then created a new one, with a different name, but it did have "Forum Topics" selected under Types.
I also tried added more vocabularies, with "Forum Topics" type seleceted.

No luck, none of these categories ever showed up when I tried to create a new content for a forum.

I gave up, removed the entire Drupal install, re-installed it, and this time I left the original "Forum" vocabulary untouched.

Now, adding a new forum content worked fine.
I also added more vocabularies, and checked Forum Topic type for them, and they too shown up fine for selection in the drop-down list when creating a new forum topic.

So, I don't know how to reproduce this, but I did have a real problem, for now, am staying away from the Forum module, atleast for now!

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lrogers commented

I also have this problem after trying to change the vocabulary. I deleted the Forum container and categories and added my own and my forums quit working. One data point, perhaps worthy of notice, is that the forum table in the data base has all of the forum entries with valid nid's (node id) but the tid's (term id) are all 0. There are valid term definitions in the term table and I do select a term when composing a post.

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kattni commented

The bug posted by someone earlier, http://drupal.org/node/22960 , isn't related to the original issue. Has anyone filed a bug for this specific issue? I'm having the same problem as well.

Same problem as in the Forum settings not being where the documentation says they should be, etc.

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Capnj commented

Possibly same problem as in http://drupal.org/node/26583, and the solution is posted. I'll repeat the solution here:

#5 submitted by Kenrick on July 15, 2005 - 10:34 updated

You might try looking at the "variable" table.
The row with name:
forum_nav_vocabulary
will have a serialized value entry like:
i:X;

The "X" will be a number that should match the vid field in the "Vocabulary" table that corresponds with your Forum Topics. If these got mucked up you could try manually making them match up in the database, by either changing the X "variable" in or changing the vid in "vocabulary".

It worked for me. I also had to deactivate and reactivate the forum module for it to kick in.

- gil -

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magdeline commented

I had the same problem after deleting the default forum vocalbury. I saw Capnj's post and went into the database to update the forum_nav_vocabulary to my new vid number. This seems to work great. I attempted to create a new forum topic and saw the list of forums in the drop down in the creation form.

However, posting a new forum topic, I get the message "This topic has been moved" in the forum listing and if I clicked on the link in the message, it goes to a undefined forum (with tid=0)

Does anyone know how to fix that?