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@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. -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]