Issue status update for http://drupal.org/node/20295 Project: Drupal Version: cvs Component: forum.module Category: feature requests Priority: normal Assigned to: Anonymous Reported by: pyromanfo Updated by: Axel Status: patch Similar work was started in 2004 as 'akvaforum' - separate module, where forum structure may include many terms and many vocabularies. Also any nodetypes may be forum topics. Module works faster than standard forum module with less queries to db. Now it some uncomplete (navigation links and breadcrumbs missed) and works for 4.5. Anyone interested for such forum for 4.6? Contribs CVS: modules/akvaforum http://www.drupal.ru/node/447 - some screenshots Axel Previous comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ April 11, 2005 - 08:07 : pyromanfo Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/flexiforum.patch (10.01 KB) When I saw what was planned for the 4.6.0 forum improvements I was intrigued and a little disappointed. On the one hand, it really did make things easier. On the other hand, it was moving the forum module further away from what I wanted to use it for, making it a little less useful for me. The main thing I wanted the forums for Drupal to do was allow me to use any node type in the forums, following the generic node-based design of Drupal itself. This actually pushed it further away from that goal, having a specific walled-off section of the site that only forum posts are allowed in, and now it's seperate from the other categories as well. So I got to looking at the forum.module code and realized how easy it would be to modify it to use any node type. That, combined with my Quickpost project would allow me the node-generic forum posting I wanted for my site. Enough rambling, here's the goods. Patch Description This patch takes the CVS forum.module and allows users to see any node types in the forums, such as stories, images, book pages, blog entries and flexinode types. It's a suprisingly simple little patch, and if you're like me wanted the forums to be a little more flexible, this patch helps in that regard. It's fairly simple, and I only did preliminary testing so let me know what you think. I don't think this'll get accepted into core, but I didn't know where else to put it. It's too simple to be it's own module and I don't know where else I'd put a patch. If this should be in the forums or something, I'll put it there. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ April 11, 2005 - 14:20 : moshe weitzman a pat ch which givces this functionality has a pretty good chance at landing in core. an analogous patch for blog has been submitted and well received .... i haven't looked at this one in particular. the UI issues here are just as important as the geek issues (i.e. any node can be part of the forum) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ April 11, 2005 - 20:11 : pyromanfo One UI issue I know of with this patch is I hardcoded the "Post a new topic" link to link to Quickpost, since that's the only easy way I knew of to do node-type independent content creation when specifying a term id. As a part of the content creation overhaul they're doing if they allow people to specify a term id for any node type then it could link it to that instead.