This might not be the right place to post this question, but then again it might be perfect.

I have a different theme only for the forum section of my website. I am using the Module "sections" to switch between the two themes within the same site....here is the issue.
When a forum topic is created I have pathauto make an alias so it still resides with in the forums/* area. But when someone goes to edit a topic or reply to a comment it goes to the "reply/45 or content/edit/45" (the numbers are sequentially given to any content across the site). There is no way of knowing what number that the content of the forums is getting and so I have no way of letting "sections" know which content to apply the theming.
Is there any way to weed out the forum content and comments away from the rest of my sites content?

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michelle
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Hate seeing this sit unresponded to so thought I'd say I'm not ignoring you; I just haven't had a chance to look into this, yet.

Michelle

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maedi commented

You're on the right track. In pathauto, under "Node path settings" you should see "Pattern for all Forum Topic paths:" change this to something like "forum/topic/[nid]" and you'll be able to theme forum nodes like the rest.

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michelle
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Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

Did you ever figure out how to do this? I still don't know and it's been some time so I thought I'd see if you'd figured it out on your own.

Michelle

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hankpalan.com commented

Well for the time being I didn't have time to screw with it, so I just left it looking like the rest of the site. However, I will have to do this eventually. When I do I will make sure to post it here.

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michelle
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Title: Forum Theme Issue » Theme forum post edit form
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Postponed

Ok, setting this postponed for now and changing the title so I remember what it is. If you don't get to it first, I'm sure I'll end up looking into it eventualy. But it's not a super high priority for me.

Michelle

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Rob T commented

I know what you're talking about, spankteal. I have similar issues using CSS Injector on my 6.x project.

Since our theme change depends on path (/forums, /forums*), when the path changes when we edit the node (forum topic) and do something with comments, the theme change doesn't carry over to these. Thus, the themed experience that we try to deliver gets mangled.

What this requires is the overriding of system paths for node editing and commenting... somehow grabbing information from the source node and rewriting the path based on that??? I don't know.

Hopefully something will emerge. But until then, I am just going to make due with what I can.

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michelle
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Version: 6.x-1.x-dev » 6.x-2.x-dev
Component: Theming » Code
Category: support » feature
Status: Postponed » Active
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michelle
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Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Ok, this has been hanging out for over year and I'm still not real clear on what, if anything, AF can do here.

Michelle