Greetings and congratulations on having such an awesome and concise module! I was very excited to try it out, and it almost fits our needs for a client's project.

However, since much of his discussion is centered on the forum, we don't want to leave users who don't check for new nodes to be left out in the cold. They too should be able to find out when a new node has been published.

I'd like to cause the forum topics to be created immediately when the node is published. Having read the code, I'm not sure it's possible, or if this module is indeed the solution to our problems. If anybody has advice or suggestions, please don't hesitate to offer. Our deadline is creeping up. ;)

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AlexisWilke’s picture

AlexisWilke commented

Well... how much money do you have?! 8-)

Really, I'm not too sure how it can be done and making it work with Discuss this! but if you look into these you should get the same functionality:

1) Get Rules module, setup a rule that when Node of type X,Y,Z is created, create another node of type Forum.

2) Get CCK and stick the link to the type Forum in a CCK Node Link field (whatever that's called)

3) Enjoy.

Rules may not be necessary, I've heard of other modules that stick links in CCK Node Link fields, but I'm not too sure how those work. Anyway, changing Discuss this! to do what you're asking would not be sensible since the primary idea of Discuss this! is to let the first user create the forum post (because some nodes may never generate a post in the first place!)

carlthuringer’s picture

carlthuringer commented

Thanks for the prompt response and recommendation. If you can direct me to somebody who may be willing to give me some advice with Rules I would be even more grateful. :)

In my limited attempts with Rules, it doesn't seem possible to insert text into the body field of a node created as you say, nor does it seem like I can assign an Node Reference to the newly created forum node. I think I may need to create a custom action that simply does all the work in one shot, and then hook that up to rules.

Nontheless, I'm glad that you've offered a second on the viability of Rules for this task. I shall plunge into it once again, and hopefully find my solution soon.

AlexisWilke’s picture

AlexisWilke commented

Yeah... I still think that this case is much more adapted to Rules than Discuss this! which is very specialized.

lastent’s picture

lastent commented
Issue tags: +Forum, +rules

Hey and how would you assignt the new forum topic created to a forum?

AlexisWilke’s picture

AlexisWilke commented

lastent,

A forum topic is a term in the Forum taxonomy. You assign it by (1) loading the term; (2) assign to the forum post (node). That should be easy enough as long as you don't need to change the term in some dynamic manner.

Thank you.
Alexis

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dom. commented
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Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Module maintainer has changed. I'm closing this issue after years of inactivity, please open a new issue if needed.