[drupal-support] how to create forums
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.
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/ ]
-- Djun M. Kim, Director djun.kim@cielosystems.com Cielo Systems Inc. http://www.cielosystems.com Strategic Software Research Tel: (604) 739-3941 302 - 1298 10th Avenue West FAX: (604) 739-3943 Vancouver, BC, V6H 1J4 Mobile:(778) 895-1379
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@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/ ]
-- Djun M. Kim, Director djun.kim@cielosystems.com Cielo Systems Inc. http://www.cielosystems.com Strategic Software Research Tel: (604) 739-3941 302 - 1298 10th Avenue West FAX: (604) 739-3943 Vancouver, BC, V6H 1J4 Mobile:(778) 895-1379
Well... there is this: http://drupal.org/node/1151 But it does not seem to have anything except comments! It could do with some work. Of course, anyone is welcome to help out (try discussing it on the drupal-docs mailing list http://drupal.org/mailing-lists ). Cheers, Ross. Haisam K. Ido wrote:
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@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/ ]
-- Djun M. Kim, Director djun.kim@cielosystems.com Cielo Systems Inc. http://www.cielosystems.com Strategic Software Research Tel: (604) 739-3941 302 - 1298 10th Avenue West FAX: (604) 739-3943 Vancouver, BC, V6H 1J4 Mobile:(778) 895-1379
On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 14:56:37 +0000, Ross Kendall <drupal@rosskendall.com> wrote:
Well... there is this: http://drupal.org/node/1151
But it does not seem to have anything except comments! It could do with some work.
Of course, anyone is welcome to help out (try discussing it on the drupal-docs mailing list http://drupal.org/mailing-lists ).
I made a note of it in drupal-docs. I wrote some documentation on create forums at http://support.bryght.com/adminguide/forums -- Richard Eriksson Bryght Community Support http://support.bryght.com/
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