By sungkhum on

Somehow my forum is not longer showing categories on the admin/taxonomy

Anyone know how to fix this?

Thanks,
Nathan

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.7.x

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venkat-rk’s picture

venkat-rk commented

Are you using the category module by any chance?

sungkhum’s picture

sungkhum commented

Yes, but then I had to uninstall it - I couldn't figure out how to get it to work with my multilingual site. I assume that is what did it. Can you help me fix it?

Thanks,
Nathan

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venkat-rk commented

I don't really know. If you already disabled the category module, go to the system table of your drupal database and run the following sql query to remove all category related records from the db. This might help you (certainly won't harm you if you have stopped using category module):

DELETE FROM system WHERE name LIKE 'category%';

Try creating the forums again using regular taxonomy.

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sungkhum commented

I'm going to try what was said in this post (which I found after long hours of searching) http://drupal.org/node/26583

What Kenrick says at the #5 position on that page:
"You might try looking at the "variable" table.
The row with name:
forum_nav_vocabulary
will have a serialized value entry like:
i:X;

The "X" will be a number that should match the vid field in the "Vocabulary" table that corresponds with your Forum Topics. If these got mucked up you could try manually making them match up in the database, by either changing the X "variable" in or changing the vid in "vocabulary"."

I will post if it works.

-Nathan

sungkhum’s picture

sungkhum commented

Actually I found a better way (at least for me, since my forum was already deleted).

Source: http://drupal.org/node/22960

Solution:
- delete all the forums
- disable Forum module (?q=admin/modules)
- using phpMyAdmin (or mySQL command line), go to the Drupal variable table, find the entry where the name is forum_nav_vocabulary, and delete it
- re-enable Forum module
- recreate forums"

My forums are all better now :)

-Nathan

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gabble commented

My forum is broken, cannot add new contents!
Using i18n cvs and drupal 4.7.1!
The categories select box in the "add forum topic" page is greyed out, so if you try to post:

An illegal choice has been detected. Please contact the site administrator.

If I login as user #1, everything works as expected!!

gabble’s picture

gabble commented

I solved the problem by:

1) recreating the forum containers and moving the old forums in the new containers;
2) editing the old forums and re-saving them without modifying anything

Something got scrambled, I don't know why, but everything's fine now...

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davereplicant commented

Drupal 4.7.2
Category CVS

Have managed to conquer the category module and am very happy with it.
Enabling Simplenews was a sinch with the legacy category module (32nd time round).

The only thing I'm stuck on now is that I can Set up forums and drop them in my own menu's and everything seems to look fine, I can submit a post no problem and get confirmation of a successful post.

The post does not show up in my Forum.

Works fine when I use taxonomy module.

Also I the Forum is not showing up in the legacy import area.

Could this have something to do with it?

All help would be appreciated.

Thank you.

Dave

www.dawnofthereplicants.com