It's definitely extremely weak to have forums without views.

The only thing that's missing to get it to work is:

#477338: Multiple group: group by more than one field

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We discussed using views for the forum/topic lists and I think that's a good long term goal but it would require writing custom fields and also a lot of changes to Advanced Forum so we're not doing it for the moment at least. We are using views for the actual topics themselves via nodecomment.

Michelle

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Status: Active » Postponed
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michelle
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Status: Postponed » Fixed

AF now uses views for the topic listing. It's not 100% functional but I'm working off an issue in the AF queue so no need to keep this one open.

Michelle

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Flying Drupalist commented

Michelle, the issue was about forum listing, not topic listing.

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Status: Fixed » Postponed

Oh... Well, it didn't specify. That's something I have no plans to convert to a view. Don't know about anyone else. I'll set it back to postponed.

Michelle

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Title: Use views » Use views for forum listing
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merlinofchaos commented

Making the forum listing use Views is certainly a challenge. I agree with postponed.

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Is it even worthwhile? I could see the benefits with the topic listing. Not so sure on the main forum listing. The view would need to be so customized to handle things like abbreviated subforum listings and other specialized things that I think you'd lose any advantages of having it be a view. I think this is a case where assembling it in code is better.

Michelle

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Flying Drupalist commented

@Michelle, did you look at the link in the first post?

Well, my main motivation is to get away from the forum.module. I've been using views to list topics since last year.

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I did and it doesn't give any indication why using views for that page is a better solution. If your motivation is to get away from the forum module, you're in the wrong queue. We are agumenting core forum, not replacing it.

I'm a big views fan but it's not the solution to every problem. I think it's important that this page remain very customizable. Each forum in the list is an entity but will not necessarily be in a table even. So I don't think views is a good fit here.

Michelle

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Flying Drupalist commented

That makes sense, I have no real arguments, it's just that the forum.module do not suit my needs.

I am wondering about how you're handling sub forums though. Can you describe how that works in AF please?

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It's still on the to do list. The basic idea (like most of what we're doing) is to do like phpbb/vb does.

Michelle

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Status: Postponed » Closed (won't fix)

A month later and I'm still convinced views isn't a good fit for this page. It made sense on the topic list but the main forum page has a lot of fiddly customized bits and some folks might not want it to be a table at all. Since I doubt DruBB will do this independent of AF, I'm going to set this won't fix.

Michelle