[drupal-support] how to create forums

Ross Kendall drupal at rosskendall.com
Tue Mar 1 14:57:22 UTC 2005


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?
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>>Haisam,
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>>   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
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>>Quoting "Haisam K. Ido" <haisam at ido.org>:
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>>>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/ ]
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