Troubleshooting

Last updated January 5, 2012. Created by Michelle on March 4, 2008.
Edited by epiphanydigital. Log in to edit this page.

Note: This document is getting a bit old and may not be 100% accurate anymore but is still worth a look if you are having any of these problems.

Clear your cache! I've had countless "bug reports" taken care of simply by telling people to clear their cache. Cache can cause all sorts of weirdness. This should be the first thing you do followed by a hard browser refresh.

Problem: CSS/template overrides are not working in non default themes.
Solution: There is an issue with the global $theme variable not being set affecting only some sites that has never been solved. To work around this, I fall back to the default theme when the variable isn't set. For sites with this problem, you need to put your AF theme overrides in your default theme.

Problem: Fatal error: Unsupported operand types in /path/sites/all/modules/advanced_forum/includes/style.inc on line 132 (that number may change)
Solution: This error occurs when your site's theme is not enabled. Go to admin/build/themes and enable it.

Problem: Bullets missing in Artisteer themes.
Solution: http://drupal.org/node/790982#comment-2932334

Problem: The views count is not showing up on the topic list.
Solution: Enable the statistics module and enable view counts.

Problem: The first reply overlaps the bottom of the forum node.
Solution: This affects Garland and any theme that copied its negative margins. In your style.css, add #comments{margin:0; padding:0; top:0;} to cancel that out.

Problem: Two signatures are displayed with the signature_forum module enabled.
Solution: Switch off automatically adding signatures to content by browsing to Administer -> Site configuration -> Signatures for Forums. Expand Other options, un-check Automatically add signatures to content and Save configuration.

Problem: The default avatar doesn't show when the imagecache option is enabled.
Solution: Advanced Forum simply takes what you set as the default image and hands it off to Imagecache. Imagecache can't handle a full URL path. Therefore, you need to use a relative path to the image when you set the default image.

Problem: The posts are too tall.
Solution: By default, Advanced Forum sets the height to 350 to accomodate a fully loaded Author Pane. For sites with small/no avatars or not using all the contrib modules, this can result in a lot of whitespace when posts are short. To fix this, in advanced_forum-structure.css, find:

And change the 350 to something that suits your site better.

Problem: Blue Lagoon hides the unpublished node/comment styling from the theme.
Solution: Setting .node-unpublished .content {} to the same as .node-unpublished {} will apply the theme's unpublished style to the main content area of the post.

Please put support requests in the issue queue / forums. Comments are only to suggest changes to this page.