By darumaki on

Does anyone know why this would happen ? I switched from uieforum to the Drupal forum, everything appears ok, but when I create a topic, it does not show up. This has me scratching my head.

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bwv commented

Have you created a forum vocabulary so that your forum post knows where in the forum hierarchy it should go?

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darumaki commented

I figure it out, categories and content types got messed up in the process of switching from uieforum to the default, so had to redo it again, its working now

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darumaki commented

I have noticed this still happens, when you create a new forum topic, it does not show up until you run cron or rebuild permissions, so if users post it won't show up right away, is this normal for Drupal forum ?

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bwv commented

No, this is not normal at all.
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groberts100 commented

I installed uieforum, reverted back to the 5.5 default forum and no posts are showing up.

Arrrrrrrrrrgh.

Could uieforum have changed something that the regular forum module needs ?

Is there any way to re run the default forum's install script ?

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Blitter commented

What access control modules are you using?

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groberts100 commented

Thanks for asking.

Since installing Drupal 5.5 I've not changed the access module so I guess its whatever comes with 5.5.

I will start debugging the forum module to see whats going on but it kind of defeats the productivity boost that these modules offer if we have to learn about their implementations.

Thanks again.

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bwv commented

At this point you might want to do a clean install of 5.7; update your database and see what happens.
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groberts100 commented

I backed everything up and upgraded to 5.7 but still the postings are not showing up in the forums. Nodes are being added to the database but there is a clause in the query to gather postings that joins with the taxonomy table, I think some records might have been deleted by UIEForum, not sure yet.

Reverted from 5.7 to 5.5 since I don't have time to test the 12 or so optional modules I use.

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bwv commented

The fix to this is probably quite simple, but its difficult to diagnose without access to your site. If you are using 12 modules for 5.5, they should all work just fine with 5.7.
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groberts100 commented

Merci bien bwv.

I think the following mysql statement statement has fixed the problem.

insert into vocabulary_node_types values (1, 'forum');

I have no idea why or when this record got deleted.

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jehoho commented

That is exactly what I found in my database table vocabulary_node_types:
no link from vid 1 to forum!
So I inserted it using this sql code.
It works.
Remember when testing: forum topics inserted before fixing are still hidden of course because missing link to forum topic.
New topics inserted after fixing are shown.

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mishakogan commented

I did sql insert but it didn't help. Still stuck on this issue

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Cwolly commented

This worked for me also. Has this been reported as a bug?

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jonny_noog commented

Thought I'd mention that I have just upgraded a Drupal install from 5.7 to 5.10 and ran into this exact issue. Turns out that the vocabulary_node_types table had indeed lost it's record for the forum type at some point during the upgrade.

I dropped vocabulary_node_types and recreated it from my previously taken backup SQL dump which included the forum type and related vid, this seems to have solved the issue.

So whatever the root cause is, the issue still seems to be present upgrading to 5.10.

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ik2xnw commented

That worked for me also! Thanks a LOOOOOT!

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cyberskier commented

Wow, groberts100's solution worked for me, too. Many thanks. I'd been banging my head against a wall for ages.

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snackmaster commented

I have a similar problem - People post to the forums and the posts show up in the "Active Topics" menu block but do not show up as topics within the Forums. This happened after recently upgrading to v5.6

I have checked Access and registered users have access.
I've checked Categories and Forums is a Vocabulary item with my 3 original Forums as List Items.
I wrote a test post as site admin and it did not show up in the forums but did show up in the "Active Topics" menu block.

Confused as to what happened, why and how to fix!

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snackmaster commented

fixed it - Forums had a Category Type of "Forum Topic" but with 5.6 apparently also needed to have an additional type of "page" (or always did and was somehow disabled during upgrade)

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wanyax commented

can u be more specific? not everyone understand what u talkin about...

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webalchemist commented

I followed the advice above for entering 1, forum. When that did not work for me, I did about 10 seconds more research and got it working. By first viewing the vocabularies table, I found that my forum VID was actually 2, not one. Once changed my entry in the vocabulary_node_types from 1, forum to 2, forum, it worked like a champ (for new posts)!!

Happy mysqling!!

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druupydog commented

Check Your vid # like webalchemist says!

Your vid number must be the one originally set for your forum. It is not necessarily 1. There are other modules that will save their data in vocabulary_node_types like ubercart for example. I looked back at my saved SQL backups and found that my vid # was 2.

My vocabulary_node_types table was wiped clean! I think it was during an update as the timing of the update coincided with the problem.

The clear symptom of this issue for my Drupal installation was that the Forum drop down selector no longer displayed on the create Forum Topic page.

Drupal chiefs should take note and see if there is something going on with the updates.