It would be nice if one could have a forum container for each "type" of group (I saw this in http://groups.drupal.org/groups) and a forum for each group.

The cvs version isn't compatible with the forum module but it would be nice if it if and did the above with taxonomy so I wouldn't have to do this for a million or so groups... ;)

Just my two cents.

Thanks in advance.

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webchick
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Not sure how I could implement this, really. Unlike the forum vocabulary which is auto-generated by the system, there is no way to determine which vocabulary (if any) refers to "type" of group. Some sites will have one vocabulary dedicated to categorizing groups, some will have none, and some might have more than one.

The URL you refer to is generated via the Views module. I assume you could generate a similar thing for your forums list with Views if you wanted. Setting its path to 'forum' should override the existing forum path, since "views" comes later in the alphabet than "forum."

I'll leave this open a couple days in case someone has some bright ideas, but then I'll probably set it to "won't fix"

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Ryanbach commented

Well, I don't really care so much that it is for each "type" so much as I wish that this was comptable with the standard Drupal forum module in core. I just think it would be nice if it worked and integrated with the forum module, so I could use both all my previous forums and this module, not one or the other.

You seem to be doing a very great job so far.

Thanks for you time. ;)

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rantenki commented

I have been messing with the core of Drupal pretty heavily for a client. I have had some luck enforcing the display of categories by culling those categories which have OG settings, and which have privacy set in the group. I do this by joining the term_data, og_term, and og together in order to determine the visibility settings, all inside of a hack to the taxonomy module.

I would be nice if it was possible to change the group associations of any taxonomy so that we could restrict visibility of private group categories from prying eyes. Since the og_forum already has the relations between terms and groups, it would be trivial to extend this to other taxonomies than the forum one.

I will see if the client will let me contribute this code.

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Veggieryan commented

I can't believe its not already like this!

whew!
some of us us og to keep things PRIVATE!
thanks!
ryan

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rubenk commented

Interesting. If contributed, would this code then also serve the dual purpose of multiple forums per OG, no?

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rantenki commented

I just consulted with the client, and they do not want to contribute the code back at this time, and my hands are tied as they are not distributing at all. However, I can tell you that it would be easy to either: modify the taxonomy module to check for the existence of og_forum (which is the quick and dirty way I did it, and hard to navigate if there are a large number of groups), or to modify the og module to add a list of forum topics in the node form (which is tougher to navigate if there are a lot of forum containers).

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darren oh
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Location Lakeland, Florida
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Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

The patch for issue 73570 should fix this.

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darren oh
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Location Lakeland, Florida
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I was wrong. Follow the discussion in issue 98131.