Forum taxonomy menu not populated when creating new node

Thanks for the patch! It's working for my "authenticated user" who belongs to the private group that has this forum.

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subscribing - for me this issue appeared with the last update

subscribing - I am experiencing the same with version 6.x-2.0. I can select forum in the OG forum, but not in any other. I tried the patch, but to no avail. I got no error reports from using the patch.

Edit: I closed the new issue I made for the 6.x.-2.0 version, and post the information here instead (on suggestion from kentr.)

Description

Repeatable: Always

Steps to repeat:

1. download and unzip og_forum from  http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/og_forum-6.x-2.0.tar.gz into the modules folder.
2. Setup forum structure and Organic Forum settings as described below
3. goto URL node/add/forum

Expected results:

The forum dropdown list populated with the forums the user have access to post to.

Actual results:

The forum dropdown list is empty ("please select" being the only entry). It is not possible to add new forum topic.

Further details:

After updating OG forum to the latest version (6.x.2.0) it is no longer possible to add new forum topics via the URL node/add/forum, since the forum taxonomy dropdown is not populated , neither as anonymous, authenticated user or user 1.

If I make forum topics as a group member into the OG forum -  node/add/forum/83?gids[]=147 - the dropdown is populated with the OG forums. 

If I deactivete OG forum everything works as it should (except of course now the former OG forum appears in the forum list for all users).

We have the following forum structure - admin/content/forum:

• Public forum container 1
  • Public forum a
  • Public forum b
• Public forum container 2
  • Public forum c
  • Public forum d
  • ...
• OG Forum container
  • OG forum a
  • OG forum b
  • ...

Settings:

Organic groups access configuration admin/og/og_access >

• Visibility of posts : Visible only within the targeted groups.

Private groups

• New group home pages and default audience are always private.

OG forum admin/og/og_forum > group forum container >

• Would you like all group forums to be placed in the same container? : checked
• Forum publicity administration: nothing checked

Content type forum - admin/content/node-type/forum >

• Organic groups settings: May not be posted into a group (I also tried "Standard group post (typically only author may edit)").

Hope someone can clarify what has gone wrong. The error happened after a lot of modules being updated + Drupal core updated to 6.14 - so other things might play a role!

Yesterday I un-installed the old version of OG forum completely before I tried with the 6.x-2.0 version. This brought back the taxonomy in the dropdown - but suddenly the former hidden og forum (minus threads/nodes) was also visible to non-members. I tried to fiddle around to make it work, but couldn't.

Today I did the same with the 6.x-2.x-dev, 2009-Nov-11 version and the og_forum-580452-18.patch. The result was the same - the dropdown populated, but the og forum visible to non-members at /forum. After I set the group forum container to the "old" one at OG forum admin/og/og_forum > group forum container >, this container and its forums disappeared from the dropdown menu - both for non-members AND members. It is as if the old og forums (and/or container?) needs to be reconnected to the group/defined as og forums once again?

I thought about choosing the "retroactively update old groups" option, but I am not sure this will help me out, since I already have my forums.

As far as I can see from og_forum.module, the conditions that control the visibility of a forum has to do with the og_forum_is_public-function (line 1294). Here a row from the og_term table is tested for content and the status of the public-field.

When I look in my DB I can see, that I have no content in my og_term-table! I guess this is where my old og-forum ought to be?

Here are some more values from the DB regarding my old og-group that might be relevant:

Organic Group-table "og":

og_selective: 1
...
...
og_register: 1
og_directory: 1
og_private: 0

Patch #18 worked for me, subscribing.

Subscribing

Is this solved in dev? I ran into the same issue with og_forum 2.2...

Just to add my voice to this: still an issue with 6.x-2.x-dev (as of today), but the patch appears to work. My setup has two groups, each with their own forum, but when creating a Forum Topic the 'Forum' drop-down was empty. Applied the patch above and it seems to work. I've not done extensive testing yet, though.

subscribe - but patch worked great :)

Sorry: patch fails for me on both 6.x-2.2 and x-dev. The x-dev version looks different to what the patch is expecting. Was tempted to hand-edit, but am wondering:

- which version was the patch supposed to be against?
- the -dev version appears to incorporate some elements from the patch, but there's no mention of the patch being rolled into dev (unless I missed it?)

Here's the patch.rej

***************
*** 419,426 ****
          return;
        }
      }
-       $return['join'] = "LEFT JOIN {og_term} ogt ON t.tid = ogt.tid";
-       $return['where'] = "ogt.nid IS NULL";
        if ($og_forum_container = variable_get('forum_default_container', FALSE)) {
          $return['where'] .= " AND t.tid != $og_forum_container";
        }
--- 419,426 ----
          return;
        }
      }
+       $return['join'] = "LEFT JOIN {og_term} ogt ON t.tid = ogt.tid LEFT JOIN {og_uid} u  on u.nid = ogt.nid";
+       $return['where'] = "(ogt.nid IS NULL OR (ogt.nid = u.nid AND u.uid = {$user->uid} )) ";
        if ($og_forum_container = variable_get('forum_default_container', FALSE)) {
          $return['where'] .= " AND t.tid != $og_forum_container";
        }

Thanks for any pointers: I have no forums in my drop downs.

has this been fixed?

users can see, when adding a forum node, taxonomy from groups. forums which are not in groups are not showing up in the menu. but are browsable in from the site.com/forum

using dev version.

The patch in #33 does not apply cleanly @ DEV using patch.
When applied manually, it does not solve the issue described herein.

Once I figure out what it's supposed to be doing, I'll post a new patch.

For non-group members (including user/1), this issue persists.

From what I can see, there are a few possible solutions:
1. a user with "administer forums" permission can add a forum wherever they please, regardless of og membership
2. a user with "administer organic groups" + "administer forums" should be able to add a forum wherever they please.
3. add an "administer og forums" permission to overcome this issue.
I've rolled one patch for each of the options above, because I'm not sure which one makes the most sense.

Whatever course we agree on, user/1 should not have any restrictions, ever, and all these patches remove those restrictions.

sorry for the miscommunication.
By "a user with 'administer forums' permission can add a forum wherever they please", i mean "a user with 'administer forums' permission can assign a forum to any existing forum vocab term".

In other words, for administrative users the "Choose a forum" menu should not filter any choices -- the patches in #38 accomplish this.

Only one of my groups shows up in the drop down.

I have two groups each with their own forum. The forums are not inside of the same container, they are both at root level.

The first forum, school (gid=116), is listed using url node/add/forum but my second group, staff (gid=122), is not listed. I am a member and a manager of both.

If I use the form "node/add/forum?gids=[]=122" I get nothing in the drop down. Right now members of the second group have no way to post to their forum.

I had previously commented out line 1380 because of problems with #831006: Invalid og_group_context makes Forums inaccessible I could be wrong, but now I am wondering if these two issues are related in some way.

Is there a patch file for the current version, from 2010-11-18, 6.x-2.x-dev? I am not sure what the patches in #38 are for because from the descriptions they do not seem to have anything to do with this issue.

After some manual fixes to the og_term table, I finally got the second group to be able to post to their forum, but for folks like myself who are members of both groups, it refuses to show me all my forums in a single drop down form node/add/forum ...

To get it to work for the second group, one has to access the forum via node/[gid]/og/forum/[tid] and then click the link to add a forum post. Otherwise it apparently cannot find the second group for context checking.

This is just crazy .... I should be able to use node/add/forum and pick which ever forum I want my post based on all the forums where I have permission.

Edit: to make the gid and tid visible

One of the issues that Forum taxonomy menu not populated when creating new node is that you have the Taxonomy access permissions" module enabled. If you have this module enabled you will have to set the permissions something like:

anonymous user : Forum#1 View (A) Update(I) Delete (I) Create(Uncheked) List(Checked)

authenticated user :Forum#1 View (A) Update(A) Delete (A) Create(Cheked) List(Checked)

Forum#1 is the taxonomy term of your forum.