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By gothfox on
I never used Drupal before and must admin that I'm not familiar with Drupal inner workings, but now have to administer our company Drupal 4.6 based website. We have tried to enable the forum module and got this result, which doesn't look very "forumish" to me:
http://www.sintez.co.za/taxonomy_menu/12
I tried searching on the forums, installing flatforum module (which didn't work, possibly because our theme is xtemplate-based). Is there any way I can change the tree hierarchy of forum containers and forums into normal flat list, like Drupal forums, for example?
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Just flatten your Forum vocabulary
You don't need containers at all in Drupal. Just reconfigure each forum to be at the top level rather than in a container. Then delete the (now empty) containers.
Sorry I can't spell out exactly what those settings are (no Drupal site handy at the moment), but they shouldn't be hard to sniff out by looking through the forum/taxonomy settings.
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Anton
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We did something like that
We did something like that (and got rid of all the forums except one) to remove trees at least, but it's not really a solution. :( Something like drupal.org forums front page would be ideal, but after half a day digging forums I still have no idea how to make it.
The drupal.org forums are nested
"General", "Support", "Development" are containers not forums.
The drupal.org forum is a completely vanilla out of the box core forum module as far as I can tell. The only thing not out of the box is the drupal.org theme, but that doesn't seem to be doing anything apart from some colours and styles etc.
I'm not sure why you're using a taxonomy_menu path for your forum though - go directly to the forum module instead:
http://www.sintez.co.za/forum
That will give you a listing like the drupal.org forum page.
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Anton
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Creating the forum
Taxonomy is created when you go to forum menu as an administrator and create containers and forums.
I am not sure how else can one create a category for the forum.
Your http://knowledge.ilign.com/forum looks perfect, how can we achieve similar results?
thanks
Forums
That forum is just plain old pure core forum module. All we did was create standard 4 forums with no containers - I don't really know how else to explain how we did it or how else we could've done it. We just created the forums and there it was. If you're having trouble, you've probably added or done something extra that 'breaks' it.
Yep, there are taxonomy terms created for each forum - no difference here.
Do you have the taxonomy_menu contrib module installed like the original poster apparently did? I only ask because I've never used it, and it could have something to do with why you guys seem to be having trouble creating a forum listing.
What do your forums look like from the /forum url? /forum isn't a path alias, it is the forum modules overview page that just produces the forum listings like on our knowledge base or drupal.org. You won't get that page by trying to view a taxonomy term listing - you need to go to the /forum url. If you have created a url path alias called /forum that points to something else try deleting the url alias and let the forum module handle it.
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Anton
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It looks OK now!
Thanks,
The problem was the url /forum, I was not sure how to point to the actual forum, now that we fixed it . it looks OK.
yes... styro is right.....
going to this url: http://www.sintez.co.za/forum
your forums look fine.
Craig