Question/Answer

Last updated March 17, 2011. Created by jcisio on October 28, 2010.
Edited by Stephen Rockwell, aspilicious. Log in to edit this page.

Question/Answer module adds a question/answer section for website. Different from other modules, it uses only one node type for question, and the core comment.module for answer. This allow reutilisation of CCK, Views...

Version 6 of this module is dependant on CCK and CTools. Both are in D7-core, thus version 7 has not any dependency.

Features

• Users who post questions are allowed to select a comment as the answer.
• The selected answer is displayed right below question.
• The posters may specify a date, after this duration, there will be a "most voted answer" if no comment is selected as the answer (not yet implemented, might require Voting API).

Usage

Installation

• Create a new content type, or reuse existing one
• Add a new number/integer field for this content type (require Number module, shipped with CCK): go to admin/content/node-type/NODETYPE/fields (D6) or admin/structure/types/manage/NODETYPE/fields (D7)
• Select the format "Selected answer" for this field in the "Display fields" section: admin/content/node-type/NODETYPE/display (D6) or admin/structure/types/manage/NODETYPE/display (D7).
• Go to the Q/A settings page (admin/settings/question_answer in D6 and admin/config/question_answer in D7) and select the content type/field name above.
• That's all!

Question expiration

You can set the expiration time for each question. After this time, the reply with the most votes will be automatically selected as the answer.

• Go to the Q/A content type, create a new field "duration"
• Type: Integer (D7: List (Integer))
• Widget: Select list
• In the configure page, enter prefined time in second, for example (unlimited, 1 day, 7 days and 30 days):
  
  0|No expiration
86400|1 day
604800|1 week
2592000|1 month
• Go to the Q/A setting page, select this field.
• Install VotingAPI module and another module, for example, vote_up_down (don't forget to enable "vud on comments").
• Go to permissions page, allow anonymous to vote on comments.

Screenshots

An answered question
An opened question