By push350z on

I want ot have a section where people can post questions, preferably without being a registered user but require them to put in there personal info, kind of like the comment module. Then I want the question/answer owner to be able to answer the question, and all of these questions/answers should readily availible to the user. The only thing I can come up with right now is a forum, but that's not really helping. Any ideas how I can do this? I guess it's kind of like a knowledge base.

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venkat-rk’s picture

venkat-rk commented

Try out the Topic module. Pretty close to your requirements.
http://drupal.org/node/35040

push350z’s picture

push350z commented

hmm topic looks like it might work if i make some user roles. I was gonna code it myself but before I re-created the wheel I wanted to make sure there wasn't something already out there that did this for me already.

Mateo’s picture

Mateo commented

This would be pretty easy to program. A lot of it depends on how you want the questions/answers displayed, etc.

darkodev’s picture

darkodev commented

I know this is an old thread, but thought this might be useful to someone who stumbles upon it as I did. I've long thought that comment should be another node type, but that's a different thread. Anyhow, it is possible to mimick this behaviour with nodecomment module.

http://drupal.org/project/nodecomment

You can create two cck types called question and answer and set the comment type of type 'question' to type 'answer.' This overrides the default comments module, but you can create a generic 'comment' type and set it as the comment type for other nodes like story and page, for example.

On one of our sites, we let users provide "tips" to the community. We also let users ask for "tip requests," to which users can respond with "tips." So we make a 'tip' type and a 'tip request' type and set the comment type of 'tip request' to 'tip'.

We can then use views to create our pages and blocks for 'recent tip requests' and 'recent tips.'

illSleepWheniDie’s picture

illSleepWheniDie commented

Thanks for ur kindness bro, this looks like my answer. I'll state my case if that can help others too ;)

I was looking for a general solution to these kinds:
Project -> Issues
Auction Items -> Bids
Blog -> Comments
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in other words, "Topic" -> "Replies"

These might be worth exploring too, addnode and add_n_reference

Good luck!

P.S. If anybody knows how to do advanced threaded views slashdot style .. gimme a ping. Thanks =)