By ceo3141 on

I have searched the Forums and cannot find anything on this, would appreciate any help.

Here is what I would like to do: I have created a Taxonomy, with Nodes associated with each Vocabulary Term. I would like to create a Forum for each term. I have done this by creating a separate Forum for each term; when you are in 1 forum, I do not want a link to forums for other terms, as Drupal will do if you don't create a separate Forum for each term. Authenticated Users should be able to create new Forum Topics, but it has to be associated with a term; what I am having trouble doing is forcing the Auth. Users to choose the term for the Category they are in.

For example: Vocabulary is Music:
-Classical
-Jazz
-Rock
So I create a Forum for each term; Authenticated Users can add a forum topic; I can force them to choose a Taxonomy term when they create the topic. But what I want is when they are in the Classical area, the forum topic is required to be 'Classical'; otherwise, they may post it accidentally in another area. This sounds trivial, but I have alot of terms, so I want to make sure their post goes into the right place.

Any ideas on how to do this?
Many thanks for any help.

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bwv commented

It sounds as though what you might need to do is to create a custom content type for each vocabulary. Install CCK, create a content type called "forumclassical" for example. Export the page or forum topic content, then import it into the "forumclassical" content type. In taxonomy, associate the classical vocabulary only with the "forumclassical" content type.

You may not be able to use forums for this, but you could create a series of Views (with the views module) and organize the data so that it looks like a forum.

On the other hand, it might work... you might have to experiment.

Not sure if there is a module to help you do this or not. Might want to look at this:

http://drupal.org/project/primary_term

and this

http://drupal.org/project/autotag

and some of the modules on this page:

http://drupal.org/project/Modules/category/71?page=2

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ceo3141 commented

Thank you for your reply. However, I have so many terms, and they change, so I would not want to create new content types.
I was wondering whether there is a way to add to the module code so that when the User is creating the new Forum Topic, the tag is merely selected by default. The select list is there, I just need some pointers on where to go in the code so that a value is pre-selected.