We're in the process of evaluating software for a hobby community site and I looked at Drupal now again, but have not used it yet.
Currently we are looking for a feature that I have not found in the docs (but maybe not searched enough):
Forum post presented on a (CMS-made) page.

Background is that forum discussions often get lengthy, over weeks or month, filled mainly with smalltalk - but some pearls in between. Now an editor might write a page that aggregates the most interesting results or remarks from a forum discussion.
Traditionally one would either copy-n-paste the respective forum message or insert a link to the forum post or thread in the page.

Now with a integrated system like Drupal we figure a way to refer a forum post in a page so that the reader:
- sees the title, author and a short abstract (like first 20 words) of a post,
formatted in some extra color, or indented etc
- may open the complete post by clicking on '+' or 'show full' etc
- may follow a link "open forum thread"
- Backtrack (kinda): The forum post gets an automatic link "Documented here"

The editor of the page would need some way to select from (all) forum threads, or from a list of posts he had marked in some way before.

Does this feature or some similar functionality exist in Drupal (possibly with extra modules)?
If not, could it be realized with the supplied means (i.e. not programming everything from scratch)?

Comments

Michelle’s picture

Doesn't seem like this would be too hard. Just use the Flag module and you can flag the replies that are interesting. You then make a view of the flagged comments.

Michelle

bb42’s picture

Thanks - this looks like it's worth checking out.