Answers

Overview

Answers provides a question & answer service. Users can post questions and other users can answer them.

Summary of Functionality

What the module does:

• Users can ask new questions
  • Directly ('node/add/question')
  • After searching for similar questions ('questions/start_ask')
• Users can review questions
  • All questions: 'questions/all'
  • Unanswered questions: 'questions/unanswered'
  • Search for questions: 'questions/search'
• When viewing lists of questions, users can sort by title, post date, and number of answers
• Users can post answers to questions
• When displaying a question, the system shows the answers to that question.

The displays are based on standard CCK node displays and Views, so can be themed in the typical ways.

For more detail and configuration options, see the file "answers.readme.txt" in the module.

Supporting Modules

There are some supporting modules:

• Best Answer: Enables question authors to select a best answer. Depending on a setting, this will lock the question
• Answers Userpoints: Adds user reputations to Answers (using integration with UserPoints) following a point system like that on StackExchange
• Expire Questions: Automatically expire questions after a set amount of time has past (Now in alpha)
• Relevant Answers: Provide blocks which can be placed on pages to capture and display questions specific to each page

Module Dependencies

Authors

This module is based on:

• The original D5 "answers" module written by @amanuel
• The original D6 conversion of that module written by @inders Singh
• The original features version of the module written by Greg Harvey
• Updates by @chipcleary

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