Thanks for reading.
Simple question, thorough explanation.
I'm looking to establish forums on my site, but would like the path to the root of the forums to be deeper into the site than /forums.
Eg: I would like to have
mysite.com/somesection - a part of the site
mysite.com/somesection/pagearea - a part of the section above that contains pages (for instance)
mysite.com/somesection/forumarea - a part of the section above that contains forums.
(I use pathauto with a default of [vocab]/[catpath] for catagories and for forum topic nodes, it's currently set to [vocab]/[catpath]/[nid] . )
To begin, I have tried changing the name of the vocabulary to which the forum topic is affixed to 'somesection' and adding terms called 'forumarea' and 'pagearea' , and included pages in this vocab. This allowed /somesection/forumarea to function as required, but now /somesection/pagearea behaves like a forum.
I also tried approaching this from the other angle, and created a new vocab called 'somesection' , added the terms and included pages and forum topics. However, when I create forum topics now, it of course still requires me to include a term from the vocabulary to which forum topics are irremoveably assigned.
I'm keen to use the Forum module (rather than CCKing up a new content type). Also, I'm using pathauto as I saw this as the solution to have posts automatically appear with this path: