By swalsh84 on

Whenever I post a new forum topic, I can see it in the admin >> content page but it doesn't show up on the forums page. What's going on?

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bonobo commented

or are they being put into the moderation queue?

Log in as a user with "administer nodes" rights and check the default workflow for forums at admin/node/configure/types/forum

The default options should be set to "Published"

Also, on the admin/node screen, the status column should be set to published.

Finally, in admin/access, for the comment module, at least one role should have the rights to post comments.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

bonobo

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swalsh84 commented

So I'm super cool and did have the comment module enabled. I was thinking users were going to be able to comment on the static pages, which they can't because that's an option that you can disallow them to do. I still can't see them though. They are in the administer >> content page but when I click on the navigation link for forums it shows my containers and the forums, but no topics.

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bonobo commented

in the administer >> content page, what is the status of the posts?

Try posting a comment as your admin/first user, and set the status of the post to "Published" and "Promoted to Front Page".

Is this site live, or on a local test server?

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bonobo

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jladd commented

When I post a topic it ends up in the
"my forum topics" but at no stage do I get to choose which forum topic / container the post should go into.
ie: there is not combo box with the list of containers and topics as there is when I post here.
Have I not installed the forum module correctly ?

rgs, james.

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bonobo commented

When you go to admin/forum, have you created any containers and/or forums?

bonobo

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dumell commented

I had the same problem in several communities. A counter got out of sync when I created Forums (taxonomies) for testing purposes, then deleted them and created new ones. All my postings ended up getting categorized according to the original, and now deleted, taxonomies/forums.

Check out these discussions for ideas and fixes:

http://drupal.org/node/20747
http://drupal.org/node/22960
http://drupal.org/node/26583

And yes, searching is a good way to start :)