By Artem on

My Googlers' Blogs site is an aggregator of all the known blogs of the Google employees. It publishes some 3-10 items a day and people would like to discuss some of them. Unfortunately usual comments don't suite the situation, the post goes out of the front page too fast.

I'd like to have every aggregated to have a link "Discuss this article on the forum" such that when it is first clicked a forum topic is created "on demand" and the first forum post has a link back to the article discussed. It would help people discuss the post they really want to discuss.

How could I implement this feature? Could you advise any modules to try? Or maybe some similar modules that I could modify for my purposes?

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pwolanin’s picture

pwolanin commented

an interesting question. Seems like you essentially want to put a default value into the body of the forum topic that includes the link?

or, you want the topic to actually be created with no additional chance for user input, and then that user can add the first comment?

If you want to make a small module that creates forum topics programatically, maybe these will help:

http://drupal.org/node/64691
http://drupal.org/node/68127
http://drupal.org/node/71691

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Artem’s picture

Artem commented

Seems like you essentially want to put a default value into the body of the forum topic that includes the link?

or, you want the topic to actually be created with no additional chance for user input, and then that user can add the first comment?

Both solutions are ok as long as the topic is not actually saved until the first comment (to prevent occasional creation of topics with no comments).

pwolanin, thank you for the links, they are useful pointers to the API to look at if I don't find an existing module.

arjunkr’s picture

arjunkr commented

were you able to find solution, Please let me know.