By adamshamilton on

To be brief My concern is that Advanced Forum did not provide more immediate visual choices than I had before.

How can I:

Get more navigation back into the Forum (like link back to the top of the forum)?

Change themes or colors?

Is "search" available for forums specifically?

I am new to Drupal (2-3 days ago) and don't know much about all the development and module options.

Thanks!

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vm commented

Search searches the entire search table. You can use advanced search (part of core) to choose what content types you want to search by expanding the "advanced search" collapsed menu at the search screen.

Changing colors and themes are handled by the them tpl.php files in advanced forum and adjusted as any theme is in Drupal. Using css and adjusting as you see fit the tpl.php provided and moved to your theme folder. (ie: like links back to the top level forum.) You can also create menus as you see fit and use block visibility to "only show" on the forum path.

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adamshamilton commented

Okay so I understand Search. Now, when I installed "advanced forum" thinking I would have a lot more theme choices but the choices available were not what I was expecting (boxy and boxy stacked and naked?... hmmm).

The version installed now is 6.x-1.0 and 2.0 is out now. Will differences are available in that update?

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vm commented

There is no advanced forum 2.0 release at this time only the -dev which isn't suitable for proudction sites. It will become 2.0 but hasn't yet. As far as what changes to expect, you can read the roadmap on the project page. The 1.x series is considered stable and new features will be going into the 2.x series and when those new features are stable, other features will go into the 3.x series.

I think you are misisng the fundamentals of advanced forum. advanced forum, gives you some starter layouts, from there you can manipulate those ones you've been given or use the starters and build on theme. View advaned forum as a module that adds some glue to already existing features in drupal that weren't obvious without using advaned forum.

If you look at drupal.org forums or a fresh install of forums, there are some big differences so I'm not sure what you don't think you are seeing but are supposed to. drupal doesn't use icons by default and doesn't supply you with tpl.php files by default beyond what in in the core modules/forum folder. Advanced forum makes it far easier to theme the forums than doing it from scratch.