Walt Daniels wrote:
There don't seem to be issue pages for core modules so I am trying here.
As far as I can tell, core modules are treated as components of the Drupal project in the issue tracker.
If I have containers and forums within containers, e.g. like the Drupal forums are set up, then I go to the add topic page where I get a dropdown box to select which forum I want to add the topic to. The UI problem is that the list of possibilities includes the containers which it needs to or you couldn't have identically named forums in separate containers and figure out which is which. If you select the container rather than one of the forums in a container, it allows you to add a topic to the container. However there is no way of displaying the topics in a container and this is the problem and probably shouldn't be permitted because containers shouldn't have topics.
Proposed fix, when user hits submit check if he selected a containter rather than a forum and give an error, allowing him to reselect to a forum.
Here's an alternate fix: Remove the dropdown and remove the "post new topic" link from container pages. Posting always takes place in the currently open forum, period. A quick check of phpBB at Mozillazine and vBulletin at Macromedia tells me that that's the way they work. This feature in Drupal seems like an unnecessary complication. Gary