By BuyBub.com on

Hi folks,

Drupal is great and what I'm looking to do right now is the following:

I'd like to be able to start a new forum or a forum topic that is linked directly to a node. What I'm trying to achieve is that each node has a couple of topics that can be discussed on by the community.

For example, I create a node that describes a software application and I'd like to enable my users to post questions, issues and support requests for this very product while they are viewing this specific node. The forum topic linked to this node should be distinctly separated from other forum topics and it should be insertable as a CCK field (preferably).

Do you know any module available that has such functionality?

Thank,
BB

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WorldFallz commented

I did something similar by using the http://drupal.org/project/talk module to move the comments for a node to a separate tab called "Discussion". If that's not sufficient for what you're looking for you could probably automate the creation of forum topics for nodes with the http://drupal.org/project/rules module.

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BuyBub.com’s picture

BuyBub.com commented

Thanks for the super-speedy reply. I'll definitively have a look.

zilla’s picture

zilla commented

once again i see somebody confined by the logic of a 'forum' - i'm totally against forums (except for this one ;)

you'd be much more well served by creating a custom content type and calling it a 'forum' and disabling the forum module - this will allow for you to do soooo much more...you could use relevant content to pull related discussions, taxonomies across content types to pull in assorted discussions, turn comments into their own nodes (kind of what you're looking at in some way)...you could use views or panels to pull it together in a very clever way on one page for each top-level topic and so on...oh, and it will be much easier to style and deal with as an admin - forgot containers and just think vocabs with sub-vocabs...you could have tag clouds for each and so on...much more flexible...

in this case, if you specifically use the module that lets you turn comments into nodes, you can then have each comment be required to inherit a unique taxonomy - in this case: issue, question, support request (and so on) and from there group them with simple views (relative to node id at top level i suppose, though not sure how to do that as i don't use views much beyond default configurations)

so imagine a node created:

custom content type: forumsthing (with body, title, cck fields or whatever else)
--vocabulary for this: categories
-----hardware
-----sw apps
-----etc

comments as nodes (body, title, cck, etc whatever you want)
--vocabulary for this: typeofreply
-----support request
-----issues
-----questions
etc

seems so much easier to me...

BuyBub.com’s picture

BuyBub.com commented

Thanks for your contribution, this looks like a quite interesting approach to me.

My only concern is, how do I associate View with a specific node? Do I have to create separate Views for each node or is there any way to automatically assign a View that handles comment nodes to a specific node, e.g. based on $node->nid?

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zilla commented

there's gotta be a way to do this - using views by node id - but i'm not a serious views user

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