By ctrygstad on

Sorry about the silly question, I installed Drupal yesterday for the first time. How would I create a list of forum categories followed by their forum topics, similar to http://drupal.org/forum?

I'm guessing I add a block, and configure it with something from the API? I see forum_overview(); might make sense, but it doesn't work. I've also installed the Views module, and that doesn't seem to help.

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VM commented

turn on the forum.module in adminster -> modules

the visit administer -> forums to set up categories and forums.

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ctrygstad commented

the forum module is turned on

and the categories and forums are setup as well. Just need the next step to display them.

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VM commented

I see.

goto administer -> menus

enable the forums menu link or create a link in your primary links to forum.

if you mean you want to turn on clean urls

do so in adminster -> settings -> general settings

this will remove the ?= from pages.

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ctrygstad commented

Ok, I'm in there, but it seems to force me to choose a parent item. I want the forum listing to be a separate block in the content section. Thanks for the quick followups.

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ideviate commented

do u mean just going into blocks administration page and activating the related blocks?

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VM commented

if you mean the recent topic blocks or new topic blocks,

goto adminster -> blocks and add the blocks on the forum/* pages

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ctrygstad commented

Just a laundry list of the categories, with the specific forums underneath them, very similar to http://drupal.org/forum

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VM commented

what happens when you go to yoursite.com/forum now?
What you see here (on drupal.org) is standard operating procedure for how the forum.module works.

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ctrygstad commented

I can see the forums, not formatted exactly the way I want, but its a step in the right direction.
Ooops, I figured it out partly, by creating a menu under menus, I could create something that didn't require a parent.
Then I enabled the forums item and put it under the forum menu. Then it was enabled as a block with a source of "/index.php?q=forum" and clicked the "expand" checkbox. Now, the forums link is where I want it, and if I click it, it goes to the right place, but it doesn't expand like i expected. So, I must have to add the categories and forums to the menu manually?