Forum module does not get it's categories back after the upgrade

I should add that when I choose to add a forum topic on the site, the categories are there, so the link between content types and the categories themselves work...

The only thing that failed to redirect correctly is in the forum module itself as it shows like it is empty (no categories and no containers...)

Thanks

I'm sure there is an easy way to upgrade a forum to category module, would anyone just take a couple of minutes to try and help?? Thsi is the last thing that I need to fix before moving to category module bu tI can,t understand how it is possible that it's so difficult to upgrade a forum to be used with category module.

Thanks for any help.. getting really desperate here

jaza, thank you so much for the fix!

I really love the category module, I could not understand that this was not actually working.

Thanks again,

patchak

Jaza,

I just don't get what are the variables to change!

Check out my forums variables line:

a:21:{i:0;i:30;i:1;i:34;i:2;i:39;i:3;i:42;i:4;i:45;i:5;i:48;i:6;s:2:"30";i:7;s:2:"30";i:8;s:2:"34";i:9;s:2:"39";i:10;s:2:"45";i:11;s:2:"42";i:12;N;i:13;N;i:14;N;i:15;N;i:16;N;i:17;s:2:"30";i:18;i:60;i:19;s:2:"30";i:20;s:2:"60";}

From what I can understand my forum containers (categories) are terms 30 and 60... But the thing is I have sub categories as well.. But the numbers in this line do not match the subcategories... Do I need to change the sub-categories (forum categories) or only the references to the forum containers (categories?).

Like I said I don't get all those extra number that are there, because they don't match with the sub categories terms numbers I had on the site...

Should I just change every reference to 30 and 60 to the new terms?? would that be enough?

thanks

Update:

The new forum containers (categories) are for ancient term 30 > now 151 and ancient term 60 > now 161.

I tried to replace every reference to 30 with 151 and to 60 with 161 and it gives huge series of errors,

* warning: in_array(): Wrong datatype for second argument in /homepages/46/d117124046/htdocs/jedebogue/www/chienTEST2/modules/forum.module on line 705.
* warning: in_array(): Wrong datatype for second argument in /homepages/46/d117124046/htdocs/jedebogue/www/chienTEST2/modules/forum.module on line 705.
* warning: in_array(): Wrong datatype for second argument in /homepages/46/d117124046/htdocs/jedebogue/www/chienTEST2/modules/forum.module on line 705.
* warning: in_array(): Wrong datatype for second argument in /homepages/46/d117124046/htdocs/jedebogue/www/chienTEST2/modules/forum.module on line 705.
* warning: in_array(): Wrong datatype for second argument in /homepages/46/d117124046/htdocs/jedebogue/www/chienTEST2/modules/forum.module on line 705.
* warning: in_array(): Wrong datatype for second argument in /homepages/46/d117124046/htdocs/jedebogue/www/chienTEST2/modules/forum.module on line 705.
* warning: in_array(): Wrong datatype for second argument in /homepages/46/d117124046/htdocs/jedebogue/www/chienTEST2/modules/forum.module on line 705.
* warning: in_array(): Wrong datatype for second argument in /homepages/46/d117124046/htdocs/jedebogue/www/chienTEST2/modules/forum.module on line 705.
* warning: in_array(): Wrong datatype for second argument in /homepages/46/d117124046/htdocs/jedebogue/www/chienTEST2/modules/forum.module on line 705.
* warning: in_array(): Wrong datatype for second argument in /homepages/46/d117124046/htdocs/jedebogue/www/chienTEST2/modules/forum.module on line 705.
* warning: in_array(): Wrong datatype for second argument in /homepages/46/d117124046/htdocs/jedebogue/www/chienTEST2/modules/forum.module on line 705.
* warning: in_array(): Wrong datatype for second argument in /homepages/46/d117124046/htdocs/jedebogue/www/chienTEST2/modules/forum.module on line 705.
* warning: in_array(): Wrong datatype for second argument in /homepages/46/d117124046/htdocs/jedebogue/www/chienTEST2/modules/forum.module on line 705.
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Could you for the sake of a good example post the new modified line that should work here please?

OR: when do you think the bug will be fixed so I could just wait till the bug is fixed instead of just wasting time doing it by hand?

Please note that the same bug applies to image module but the fix is more simple you have to edit the variables for the image module vocab and the image_gallery_vocab. That worked right away, but I'm confused with the forum variables, as my line seems way longer and more complex that the one in your example, and, like I sais replacing all occurences of term 30 and 60 to 151 and 161 does not work at all.

Thanks for your time,

Patchak

update 2:

Ok I managed to erase all the crap on my containers variable line, and leave only the two containers I actually have, like in your example. I also pointed the good forum_nav variable to the good node.

So far so good, I can actually navigate to the forums, and see all my containers and categories there, like it was before.

There is still a problem though, all the threads have been moved!!! I can't access any thread because besides all threads there is a link saying "this thread has been moved" (ce sujet a été déplacé) in french...

All the threads inside a specific container have been actually redirected to the forums's original alias... And when you click on the link you get to the node itself of the forum but outside the forum system...

This is getting pretty complicated as the nodes themselves are there on the system and well interlinked together, BUT they are not integrated in the forum system, they actually look like articles nodes or whatever.

I tried to upgrade the forum and to transfer it to category module with path redirection and also without path redirection and it is always the same problem. INSIDE the forum system, the threads are ALLL redirected to the forum's home page...

I hope this is clear enough so you can help, are you still looking at this Jaza? It seems like a major bug in the system if I can,t transfer my forums smoothly!

Thanks

I changed this issue to critical, as for the moment, it seems simply not possible to transfer a forum from taxonomy to category module.

All the threads in the forums are redirected to the containers's URL, which makes no sense.

I think category module is not usable to upgrade on a site that was using taxonomy and forums at this point, I have not been able to transfer a single forum correctly from more than 10 different try outs on different sites.

I even tried on a fresh install:

http://jedebogue.com/test2/?q=forum

as you can see here, category module looks up the containers and forums ok, but all the threads are redirected to what it seems is the old taxonomy term ID.

But if you go and browse the term forums itsels, all works and the threads are not redirected so this seems to be a bug in the communication between forum and category module.

http://jedebogue.com/test2/?q=node/49 --> as you can see here, you can actually browse the forums and the threads correctly, but not inside the forum's system...

Feedback on this issue would be appreciated

Actually I found a way to workaround this bug... You have to go in the edit menu for a node, and then check the "leave link to message" or whatever it says exactly... By clicking this, your threads will become active and redirected to the forums interface...

It's not a fix but seems to work fine.