Ref - http://drupal.org/node/261744

I am still trying to understand this and FAQ module. SO Nancy, can the question be answered by any person ? effectively I am looking to put small "node based forum" under every node. So if the node is /Britney_Spears , people can ask questions about Britney spears and others can answer it.

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I am confused as to what you are trying to do. If you want a forum, why not use forums?

One of the design points of Faq_Ask was to restrict who could answer (the expert). You can allow the "authenticated user" to become experts, but that kind of defeats the purpose.

If Faq_Ask is used to create the question, it is merely an unpublished FAQ (with no answer yet). Faq_Ask then provides a block to show the unanswered (i.e. unpublished) questions. Once it is answered, it becomes a normal FAQ and is handled by the FAQ module (and/or comments module).

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Pushkar Gaikwad commented

nancy, Can I embed forum into every node ? if I can than surely that would be awesome and can help me alot

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The "Support" section of this web site is a Forum implementation. Anyone can ask a question and anyone can answer it. It does not use FAQ or Faq_Ask. It sounds like that is what you want.

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Pushkar Gaikwad commented

nancy, every module has a page in Drupal.org, right ? and every such page has these issues listed, for example http://drupal.org/project/issues/faq_ask so how exactly this has been done ? I know this is not relevant to faq_ask but you may be having good idea about it or how I can do it.

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That's done by the Project module. I assume there is a field in the issues table that links back to the project.

But I am still confused. What you describe above is what forums do, so why not use forums?

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Pushkar Gaikwad commented

Nancy can I put forum into every Node ?

Here is the thing, I am building a 500 page website and I want to put forum into every node of it so people can ask questions related to node content and others can answer it. If this can be done, my problem will be solved. :)

PS - I know u don't know much about forums but still,.. :)

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Well, comments is pretty close to the same.

The other thing that could possibly be done is to use hook_links or even hook_form_alter to add a link to the forums.

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You might find something helpful here: http://drupal.org/node/69415

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Pushkar Gaikwad commented

Hi Nancy can you tell me how can I use comments ? any contrib module which can come handy here ? node_comment module could had been handy but it is still not ported to 6.x yet :(

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I just use the standard core comments module that is enabled on the modules admin screen. I'm not sure you need anything else.

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Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Closed (fixed)

thanks nancy, I may have found the solution in http://drupal.org/project/nodecomment, the maintainer will soon come up with 6.x so I can use views with comments which should do the trick for me though I will keep options open :)

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Okay

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maria_zk commented
Status: Closed (fixed) » Active

I am reopening this as I would like to have exactly the same functionality as poseidon123 described, and I was wondering if it would be possible to get some help. Here's the thing:

I would like to assign a FAQ under each node of a specific content type. So as in the first post: "if the node is /Britney_Spears , people can ask questions about Britney spears and others can answer it." With forums, everyone would be able to answer. Same with nodecomments. However i need the FAQ functionality to restrict people being able to answer by role.

Example: Under the britney node, people with ask permissions will be able to post questions. The node author only would be able to answer. And this list with q&a could be displayed under this node.

Is this possible with this module? Maybe have a node reference and restrict all questions and answers to this node only?

Thank you!

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Version: 6.x-1.1 » 6.x-2.x-dev
Category: support » feature

Although this is not possible at the moment, this could be a way of doing things. This would mean that there should be a specific ask-a-question block that assigns the node author of the node where the block is being listed as the expert for this particular question and in addition lists all the answered questions relevant to the node in another block that may be added to the bottom of the node page as well?
How to go about linking the questions to the node? Through taxonomy or should the question also have an external node reference?

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Is this still a valid request or are there other ways of accomplishing this by now?

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stenjo commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Seems to be a very particular sceanrio where this would be useful. I'm closing this for now. Suggestions would be the use of context module and taxonomy in some way or another.