[drupal-support] how to create forums

[Haisam K. Ido]

Excellent.  Thank you.  Is there a webpage which contains this?

> Haisam,
>
>    In overview, you need to
>
>       - enable the forum module
>             administer->modules
>                check the 'forum' box to enable the forum module
>
>       - create a vocabulary which will associate to forum topics
>             administer->categories->Add Vocabulary
>                A good name would be "Forum Topics"
>                   e.g.
>                      Forum Topics
>                         Food
>                            Recipes
>                            Restaurants
>                                Greek
>                                Mexican
>                                Ethiopian
>                                Indonesian
>                            Nutrition
>
>                The "Type" this vocabulary should apply to is "forum topic"
>                Make it a single hierarchy
>                Disable multiple select
>                Make the vocabulary 'required'
>
>       - associate the vocabulary to forum topics:
>             administer->settings->forums
>                In the dropdown list of vocabularies, select the
>                vocabulary you have just created ("Forum Vocabulary")
>
>                If you have topics which should be 'containers' only,
>                and not have topics in them, select these in the
>                list of terms you have defined in your forum topics
>                vocabulary.  E.g., in our example, you could have
>                Food, Recipes, Restaurants, Nutrition be containers.
>                (or not :)
>
>       - decide which users will have permissions to create topics,
>         add comments, and so on.
>             administer->users->configure->permissions
>
>      Play with the other settings at your leisure to discover how they
> work.  Have fun... hope this helps.
>
>      Regards, Djun
>
> Quoting "Haisam K. Ido" <haisam at ido.org>:
>
>> I'm so confused on how to creat forums.
>>
>> I am able to create forum topics but when I click on ?q=forum I get the
>> statement that 'No Forums defined' .  I went to
>> administrator->settings->forum but I don't understand.  I'm using 4.5.2.
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