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Here is the german version on our Handbook: Forum Schritt für Schritt !
This document describes how to set up a forum for a Site - step-by-step.
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Introduction
Every Site on Wikidot can contain an autonomous, fully-featured forum. The forum is also used to add features to the Site such as page comments and page discussions. The forum can be also used to produce news feeds (RSS) and build the whole news infrastructure.
However, the forum is not enabled by default. Below are the steps required to set the forum up and possibly enable per page discussion.
Before you read this how-to you can look at Site Structure document to learn a bit about forums.
Setting a forum
Step 1 - Go to the Site Manager
Go to the Site Manager (by default available at the page admin:manage). There should be a link on the side bar of your pages.
Click on Forum & discussion » Settings.
You must have an administrator role within the Site to be able to do this.
Step 2 - Activate the forum
If your forum is not yet activated, click on activate forum now.
Step 3 - Nesting level
Decide if you want to have a linear discussion or threaded/nested discussion structure for your forum. Read more at the Site Structure document. Save options if you change the default settings.
Step 4 - Set up the structure
Before a forum can be used you must define categories the threads/topics would fall into.
Within the Site Manager click on Forum & discussion » Structure. There should be a group called Hidden that will contain deleted threads and per-page discussions, but this is not enough.
Look at Wikidot Community Forum to have an idea what the groups and categories are. Groups are top-level containers for categories and categories are containers for threads.
Suppose you want to create one group to hold two categories: General discussion and Help requests.
- Within Forum & discussion » Structure click on create a new group.
- Enter e.g. "Forum discussion" as the name and "General forum discussion related to site «your-site-name»". Click save within the dialog window.
- In the new group box click on add category. A dialog will appear. Enter "General discussion" as a name and something (or nothing) as a description. Click save within the dialog window.
- Add another category called "Help requests" with the same method as above.
- You can move groups/categories up or down by clicking links move up and move down.
- You can also delete empty groups and categories.
- If you have finished, click save at the bottom.
Warning: the category names should be long enough not to make problems with other short category names! A good proposal is a minimum length of 3 or more characters!
For individual categories there can be separate nesting level settings. Read more about it here.
Now your forum is almost ready.
Step 5 - Set permissions
By default only the Members of your Site are allowed to post and start threads.
If this is not what you want, you can extend permissions to all Wikidot Users (with valid Wikidot.com accounts).
You can also allow everyone (including Anonymous Users without Wikidot.com accounts) to use the forum. Use this with caution.
If you want Users to modify/edit posts, check/uncheck proper options. It is best to leave this option to the authors of the posts so every User is allowed to edit his/her own posts and not edit others.
Forum categories can have separate permissions or inherit the default settings.
So:
- Check/uncheck permissions for all forum categories or rather configure the default permissions that forum categories will use
- Save changes
Step 6 - Make links to the forum
All the forum pages are now created, but there are not yet any links that lead to them. It is best, then, to add links to the forum pages.
Simply include links to forum:start and forum:recent-posts somewhere, e.g. copy this code:
+ Forum
* [[[forum:start | Forum]]]
* [[[forum:recent-posts | Recent posts]]]
to your side bar (located at nav:side by default).
Or if you use the top-bar pull-down menu, you can insert:
* [[[forum:start | Forum]]]
* [[[forum:start | View categories]]]
* [[[forum:recent-posts | Recent posts]]]
to the top-bar source page which is by default located at nav:top.
And…
CONGRATULATIONS! Now you have a working forum!
Allowing per page discussion
It is quite easy to allow discussion and comments bound to individual pages. There are two ways you can do it:
Using a Comments module (recommended)
Simply put the Comments module at the bottom of a page just like it is done on this page. People will be able to add comments directly below the page content.
Linking to the forum
Simply go to Site Manager » Forum & discussion » Per page discussion. If you enable the option for specific categories, each of the pages will contain the button, discuss, at the bottom. No comments will be visible within the page.
Forum Page Structure
If you activate the forum for your wiki, several pages are created automatically. These pages are normal wiki pages, and there is nothing miraculous about them. Their functionality is encapsulated by certain modules that should be elucidated below. Please - do not change these pages if it isn't necessary!
The Forum Start Page
displays an overview by category in tabular form.
[[module ForumStart]]
- Page Name: forum:start
- Example: Community Forum
- Feeds: new threads, new posts
The Forum Category Page
displays all threads of a certain forum category in tabular form, ordered by date of their respective most recent posts.
[[module ForumCategory]]
- Page Name: forum:category
- Example: General community discussion
- Feeds: new threads, new posts in this category
The Forum Thread Page
the view of a single forum thread.
[[module ForumThread]]
- Page Name: forum:thread
- Example: It only took me a day to break it...
- Feeds: new posts in this thread
The Forum Recent Posts Page
This displays all forum posts ordered chronologically.
[[module RecentPosts]]
- Page Name: forum:recent-posts
- Example: Recent Forum Posts
Reading the community forums, it seems that it is rather easy, if not paying strict attention, to delete a thread or category and render the forums inoperable.
You can move threads and categories, you can edit them, you can hide them in a "hidden Area" but please be VERY careful when deleting them!. Better still… DON'T :-)
Is it possible to delete threads? I can only delete posts, or the forum system pages, but not threads :(
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Unfortunately… no, you can only move the thread to deleted section…
Actually I'm also want to be able to delete thread…
Yes, you can delete single posts and have than only the header of the thread availoable -
You can than change the Thread title and summary ( blank it out)
and MOVE it to "hidden" Deleted Thread" group.
NEVER DELETE a ThREAD - it makes holes in the numbering index of your forum…
Have a look on our community site hidden - deletd threads:
http://community.wikidot.com/forum/c-9/deleted-threads
You will see some (unblanked) old posts and a lot of (blanked out) spam if you click on the
order by: last post date | thread starting date
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Can you please clarify [[module ForumCategory]] and [[module ForumThread]] usage? For me, specifiying those two modules as shown without parameters, gives error messages “No forum category has been specified.” resp. “Invalid thread.”.
The modules documentation lists modules
* RecentPosts — displays recent forum posts
* Comments — put comments below page content; a cool one!
* MiniRecentThreads — displays recent forum topics
* MiniActiveThreads — displays most active forum topics within some time period
* MiniRecentPosts — displays recent forum posts
but neither lists [[module ForumCategory]] nor [[module ForumThread]].
Any help appreciated. Thank you so much!
These posts are held in a page with the[[module ForumThread]].
the threads are in a page that has the [[module ForumCategory]]
they arn't in the documentation cos you can't do anything with them… but they are crucial to the working of the forum.
If you click the source button (top of the side bar in the middle,) you will see what i mean.
http://community.wikidot.com/howto:forums-fixing-them
I followed the directions and created a forum but when I go to the forum start it is a black page and when I choose to edit it I get a warning saying that I shouldn't if I want the forum to work. Can someone clarify it more on how to get it actually started?
Thanks,
Skunkmastere XXII
black. or Blank ?
I would think you have not set up your forum correctly.
No categories set up
have another read of Step 4. - set up the structure
When I click on your www.prosoc.wikidot.com on list all pages and than on forum categories
- I get only the hidden standards..
BUT NO ONE "OWN" Category.
You should never change the forum start pages itself!
they are only start ( module) commandos for the forum search on your site.. depending on your setup.
Have you setup your "groups" and "categories" in the site manager -?
http://community.wikidot.com/howto:forum-step-by-step -Helmut
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Okay, we are making progress, thanks to all who helped.. I have the forum now appearing in the SIDE!! and it seems to work. But I am unable, or don't know how, obviously, to start new threads. I, in fact, want to move the thread I started under Alumni to the new category Thesis students. Well, yeah, yesterday I did figure out how to make a category for thesis students, so now I have two categories… but I can't figure out how to open new threads…
https://greenwriting.wikidot.com/forum/start
advice?
thanks,
LG
Are you talking about
- Threads ( "create a new thread" Button)
or
- Categories (Site manager - Forum & discussion - Structure - add_category Button ( in the group where you wanted…)
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I created two categories and one thread inside one of the categories. I went back to edit my original post, and went ahead and did it despite the warnings. Now of course the whole forum is dysfunctional. I'd like to completely de-forumize my site and then start over. But can't find a way to do so. Help? And thanks in advance!
Which site?
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http://fr337.wikidot.com
Welcome to the club!!! :-)
you need to have a read of this:-
http://community.wikidot.com/howto:forums-fixing-them
Once you have it working again, move any unwanted Categories and or threads to the HIDDEN bit.
i think you will find all the old stuff will re appear.
Hi,
I'm trying to insert in the home page of my site a link to a category I created in my forum called "Job Announcements", but I cannot do it.
Here's what I've already tried:
[[[forum:job-announcements | jobs]]]
[[[forum:29219 | jobs]]] (it's the number of the category)
[[[forum:c-29219 | jobs]]]
[[[forum:category="29219" | jobs]]]
[[[forum/c-29219/job-announcements | jobs]]]
Well, I'm stuck.
Any suggestion?
Thanks!
You have to use the full name of the category-start pages: i.e.:
From our community forum:
http://community.wikidot.com/forum/c-19/general-community-discussion
or | forum cat19
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But how to embedd a forum page in a site, while
include forum:start works fine
it does not work with sub forums
include-forum-thread
I've created the forums and they show but I cant submit comments to them they're just pretty bricks
I see your categories created for every group - this is OK so…
( I can only write on your site in the per page discussion "forum category" - no idea why….
I do not understand your question … is it solved now?
Regards
Helmut
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hey! have the same problem with my forum on http://hyderabadproject.wikidot.com - its just pretty boxes - what did you do??
gracias
What you have created are forum groups. Now you need to add sub-forums (categories) to those groups inside the admin panel.
admin:manage -> forums and discussion -> structure and then look for the "add category" link under each group and remember to save it once you are finished.
Ahhh okay. I had this problem, me too.
Thanks
Please help me! I need quickly to restore an old deleted post.
I moved it in hidden:deleted. now how can I restore it?
Okay I solved the problem, but please add a section to explain how to restore deleted posts… It isn't too easy especially to newbies…
Ok, so I made a forum but clearly I do not know what I'm doing. I added a link to forum:start and the recent posts to the side bar. Great! I click on it and I just get the two categories. Fine. But if I try to make a new thread something pops up wanting me to type in a password for 'Private'. What's that?
need a bit more info please
what site?
if its set to private, i wont be able to see and test.
if i want people to post anonymously, is there a way for them to set up a "temporary handle/screen name" or at the very least remove their IP address from the post?
hide ip
mmclean has you covered ^
mmclean knows nothing it seems. I am not looking to mask the ip address as that is all any css hack will do. I'm wondering if there is a way within the module to disable the ip address from either being recorded, or being posted to the screen( i.e. when you view source it does not display anyone's ip)
mmclean knows quite a bit. I failed to see the scope of what you wanted. Good luck.
I know, I know….
Many of my users are old and do not want to create an account on ANY system on the world…
Could many users are young and their parents do not want to have them created a lot of accounts wnywhere in the Internet world…
Fact: the account in Wikidot is bound to a unique mail adress
==> I made with my second mail adress ( neccessary ) a little account with user-id like "guest of…" and an easy password (and aplly by password of course) and give away this little "first help" to my personal friends who have never done anything with computers… This works for the first try in our wikidot world.
After some month some of them (not all) detect wikidot and the possibilities… they detect the world of www and 1/3 does no longer need such help… :)
In the ToS are the points:
I think, the ToS does not explicitely forbid this method, because the 2. account (most used by myelf for testing purposes) is controlled by myself… I can always change the password and stop any stupid actions of my guests. I believe, this is usable for the learning phase. And I give never away my own account.
But this is discutable …. could be the wikidot team has another meaning of this issue.
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I've aleady set up the forum on the site. It's easy enough.
Now, for my forum, I want to restrict all but a couple of my users from viewing certain categories. Is there any current way to do this?
For instance, we have admin1, admin2, user1, user2, user3, user4, and user5.
Of course, Admins 1 and 2 should be able to do anything they need to. After all, they are admin. Now, If I have want user1 to have access to a category, but I don't want users 2-5 to be able to see it, how would I do this. Of course, I could promote User1 to moderator, then restrict access, but that won't give me the solution I need.
Then, if I wanted users 2-4 to have exclusive access to another category. If User1 was a moderator, he would have access to this new category as well.
Are there any partial/complete solutions for this? I'm going to keep looking around the site until I find something. Thanks!
You can't restrict the viewing of anything in a public site, however, many people would like this. Rate up the feature request here. The more ratings it gets, the more the developers can know that custom permissions are needed.
You can temporarily workaround this by creating a second private site, and getting the people you want to access as members on that site. With some creativity, you can even make it look like the private forum site is part of your normal site, and rig the navigation elements accordingly. At WiiHD, the forums are at a second wikidot site, but most of the guests aren't going to realize that because the CSS is the same, the nav elements all work just like they do at the main site, and the only internally accessible part of the second site is the forum. Once I apply the custom domain, then it'll be really hard for most people to realize they've left wiihd.
I'm trying to start a forum at My Wiki, but the "Activate Forum" button does not appear in my {Site Manager | Forums & Discussions | Settings} page. So, I'm stuck on Step 2.
You've got a forum. Seems you activated it on 7/19. Next you need to build the forum by creating categories. You can do that in admin:manage.
Thanks, I didn't realize I had created a forum. Perhaps the premature senility is setting in.
Most mistake done with forum:
do not forget the "save" buttons (2x) after you have created your categories !
( i do it soometimes today too..)
if you like you can MOVE UP/Down your (hidden) "Per Page Discussions" Category in another (existing) group…
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My forum works on Firefox 3.0.1, but doesnt work on IE6 (2000 OS) or IE7 (2003 OS).
Any advice is appreciated.
Site is http://sow.wikidot.com/forum:start
I've tried to recreate everything from scratch on the forum, and even downloaded IE 7 on one of boxes with the same result.
email me here or at moc.oohay|ialokink#moc.oohay|ialokink
Regards,
Kostas
sadly IE continues to completely ignore web standards, and i guess it has a problem with this theme. if i had to guess, i think it it's probably the gray rounded box is somehow pushing the forum off the viewable area of the page. i'll look at it a little later.
Good call. That was it exactly, I went in and removed the side bar for bloo template and it works great now in IE.
Regards,
Kostas
Hi everybody,
I just set up a working forum BUT, now it seems i can't see the threats nor posts. I can only see the threat-description and summary, but the threat itself remains hidden. It must have something to do with the settings on my computer, but i don't have a clue what it is….
Can anyone help me out?
Thank you so much!
Anne-Marie
P.s. this is the adress: http://schakelzaken.wikidot.com/forum:start (yeah, it's in Dutch :-/)
Someone is "hiding" or deleting some posts in the "threads" now… in the moment I see the threads on your forum, after the refresh they are gone.
Do you "delete" a post ( your post is gone) ==> NEVER delete a thread - only delete ay post.
Looks like it is working now?
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And:
==> You have NO Category in the following group defined:
"Interessante onderwerpen voor netwerkbijeenkomsten"
here is no thread possible, because no category is defined in the forum setup…
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Thanks Helmuti,
I know that there's no category defined in the setup for "Interessante onderwerpen voor netwerkbijeenkomsten" because i first wanted to fix the other problem.
Well, that's fixed now, so i'll continue building this website. =) See if i can upload powerpoints…
But thanks again for the quick respons!
A-M
I thought for a moment this was a job for the wikdot threat-response SWAT team. Threads. That's funny (but not nearly as funny as me trying to pronounce Schakelzaken).
Is this not what you see when you click through?
HAHAHA!
And i thought i was cool setting up this forum and talking ICT. Ruined my reputation allready… darn! ;-)
Anywayz, thank so much for you quick respons scottplan and Helmuti_pdorf! I was messing around with my (wikidot!) history and accidently solved the problem. Still don't know why the threaDs and posts were hidden before. Well, the problem is solved now so i can continue building this site.
Thanks again mates!
Anne-Marie
P.s. Don't even try to pronounce schakelklassen ;-)
Hello again!
As i continue to work with the wikidot-forum, more questions arise…
Maybe you can help me out again.
First question: can i add a powerpoint-presentation in a thread, post of reply?
Second question: (and that's a silly one but i just can't figure it out!) how can a add an extra 'Enter' (white line) between texts? If a simply Enter a couple of times, i see it in my Edit-screen, but not in the real version (sorry for my vague language, but it's hard for me to say these things in English).
And: Is it possible to get an email or something when someone put a new thread or post? I'm sure you can adjust that somewhere.
Thank you SO much for your help!
Greetings,
Anne-Marie
A) First question: Powerpoint:
1. You can NOT upload (or include) a ppt file ( Powerpoint) "directly" to a thread or post- there is no page to hold & attach it!
( with the exception of only the little "forum:thread" page - holding the thread module).
2 What you can do is attach ( upload ) such file on to a page of your wiki ( perhaps a "general page" - holding all uploade files - with a special category to give allowence for uploads later to other members too…)
2.1 and insert a little [[file /general page/file... ppt]] in the post / thread. - this is possible.
3. Not sure if all visitors can open the ppt file from such link - please test it out….
B) Second Question: Enter more blank lines with only "Enter" key
1. A single Enter inserts the carriage return or Line feed on a line . Multiple blank lines are compressed by the wikidot parser to only one..
2. If you need more blank lines you can key in " _" (space + underscore ) as the LAST characters of a line like this example ( 6x " _"):
gives 6 blank lines ( instead of 1) :
Hope this makes it clear ?
C) Third question: And: Is it possible to get an email or something when someone put a new thread or post?
Do you see the "RSS : new posts? " at the right top? This is a so called "RSS feed" to send you an information if asomething has changed.
I use for my own infos mails feedblitz.com and get always ( every day 1-3) mails what has changed …
There are some howto's for this thema too: http://community.wikidot.com/system2:page-tags-howto/tag/feedblitz/category/howto
( feedblitz related)
Hope this helps?
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Users would need either to have Powerpoint or the free powerpoint viewer on their pc. What I would do instead is to use Zoho Show which is one of Zoho's range of free ajax-based online office products, import a powerpoint presentation into it (or create it from scratch in Zoho Show) then embed it into the wiki page or forum.
When publishing your presentation in Zoho Show you would get code like this:
<iframe height="335" width="450" name="Welcome3" style="border:1px solid #AABBCC" scrolling="no" src="http://show.zoho.com/embed?USER=zohoshow&DOC=show20&IFRAME=yes" frameBorder="0"></iframe>
Just copy it to your wiki and wrap it in [[embed]] and [[/embed]] tags to get this:
Rob
Thank you both. I'm gonna try it out tomorrow for sure!
By the way, does any of you ever have the problem that sometimes the category names have dissapeared? I've had it when i just started the forum, and since i added some new categories just now, it happened again. Hope this doesn't happen to the viewers of my page (not that i have one YET but still…).
Anne-Marie
YYYYESSS! The zoho-way works!
Thnx again…
RSS is cool, but it's a bit onerous to put on a newbie user. Especially if your wiki is private, in which case some of the more common RSS readers won't be able to read the authentication-required feed.
Automated emails would hit a sweet spot (for me).
Hello there,
This is the last question i'm going to ask you, then i'll stop bugging you and spam another forum with my questions. =)
BUT, yesterday is presented my wiki to a group of teachers (who'll hopefully use it any time soon) and today i checked my forum and i can't read my threads nor posts!! (It says: This page doesn't exist yet) I don't know how to get it back since my hystory only shows one revision (from 11 sept, and i've changed many things after that). Do you know how i can fix my forum real quickly??
http://schakelzaken.wikidot.com/forum/c-56729/groep-2-en-3
Greetings,
Anne-Marie
Hm, on the main page of the forum (start) i see more revisions, but i can't figure out which one is the one that deleted the thread/post pages.
I see i can start a new page, but i presume that if i do so, my old threads and posts will be gone…
Hi Anne.
You have delete something you shouldn't!
Join the club. You are not alone, by a long shot.
Here is a link to a fix all forum problems how to.
http://community.wikidot.com/howto:forums-fixing-them
Problem solved! =D
With theme Bloo, my forum isn't working. With an other theme, it works. Why? What can I do?
I have the same problem. Seems to be a bug in the Bloo theme which places the forum elements off screen. Work around for me is to use the Bloo without side bar for the forum.
Very interesting!
I can use a forum on my wiki but when I add new category's, I can't see them?
Is there a patch to fix the Bloo theme?
Most mistake done with "new" categories: have you done the SAVE?
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First I would like to say that the forum is nicely designed and thank you for the free wiki.
The problem is that it takes a loooooooooooong time for a visitor to post at the site. First, he has to register at wikidot which is moderately long considering that he has to validate his email. Then he has to join the site. And then track the thread he was interested in and post. My guess is that 95% of the visitors will simply leave before posting because of this lengthy process. Can the process be made simpler?
Hi, Arvind,
There is actually a wish for that: http://community.wikidot.com/wishlist:wikidot-registration. Please rate it!
It may also be a good idea to repost your message there (the more examples of how badly-needed this feature is, the better).
Best,
Eduardo
Eduardo R. Ribeiro
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On the community-forum ( here) EVERY wikidot member can post without membership (the anonymous posting it too hard to fight spam). You need not to be a member.
If you talk about a private site - there is no other chance , perhaps a given generell password for pllication would help to make the last step easier.
If you talk about a public site, than the site admin can setup the forum as public for wikidot registered members, not only for site members..
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I tried to create a forum and it is not working. It says I need to select a catagory, but I have. Many times. Help please!!!
I can't see the source of the page but is this all you have at the edit section.
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1. it seems your forum is working now?
I can see your posts in http://nascwtest2.wikidot.com/forum/start in the category/group "Ideas for the Office" and on the hidden "per page discussions" I can see another thread..
2. it seems your forum is only open for members of your site… I am not alloewd to post here. this is ok if you wnat this…
3. on your welcome page you ask "what now???" - have a look at http://community.wikidot.com/howto:site-check-llist
Tip: read http://community.wikidot.com/howto:interface-design
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I seem to have found a novel way to screw up a forum. I was copying the sidebar text from another wikidot site to this one. This included the code:
Forum
After I finished the sidebar, I noticed the “forum” link and clicked on it, not really knowing what I was doing (it had been a while since I created the first forum). It said forum:start did not exist; do I want to create it? I said yes—-and apparently screwed up my forum irretrievably.
I went to the site manager, and when I tried to activate the forum I got: “Oooops! An error occured while processing the request.”
I followed the instructions in http://community.wikidot.com/howto:forums-fixing-them
and created all the files specified. I still can’t activate the forum, and if I try to do anything else with it I get: “Oooops! Forum not activated (yet).”
Can I get rid of this forum and start over? I swear I’ll use the normal instructions this time!!
Thanks,
JA
having had a quick look, it seems no categories have been set up.
Let me restate what happened: I had done NOTHING to set up the forum. I had just copied the links to forum:start and forum:recent-posts to my sidebar, and when I clicked on the forum:start link I was prompted to create the page, since it didn't exist. Silly me, I thought this was an authorized shortcut to create a forum! But no, the system just created a regular page as usual, which I can't seem to turn into a proper forum page.
So, I had to create all the forum pages from scratch, following advice in http://community.wikidot.com/howto:forums-fixing-them. But they don't work. I can't access the forum Structure commands to create categories or anything else. I would like to either delete all the forum pages and start from scratch or figure out how to make them work.
Thanks
Yes!! I was able to delete the offending code from the sidebar and delete (really rename) all the files and start over. Thanks so much for helping me so quickly!
JA
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I hid my forum group ("STS 5404 Modern American Science forums", the only active group in the forum), and it no longer shows up under Forums, but the recent posts still show up in Recent Posts. So then I moved the only category in that group ("Weekly Reading") up into the "Hidden" group, but that made no difference either. (It is now moved back.) I tried removing all the permissions from the category, but there is no "Read" permission, so that made no difference either.
What good is hiding the forum if the entries can still be accessed via Recent Posts? Is my only option to go in and delete every individual post? I don't actually want to delete the posts at this time, just hide them so I can make the site public. (Yes, the site is temporarily public now so that you can see it, but I don't want to make it permanently public until I can hide posts that were made with the expectation of privacy.)
Thanks much,
JA
I would of thought that the word "hidden" means, well er… er… hidden.
Apparently not.
It would seem that not many are interested in this.
http://community.wikidot.com/bugs:show-hidden-threads-are-viewable-by-anyone
For now I'll just remove the "recent posts" link from the main page. If I need it back I'll decide whether to delete the private posts. Thanks for checking. This probably isn't a common problem; it only came up because the site is in transition from private to public.
Ja
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I hid my old forum (which worked just fine) and created a new one today. When I click on the link to the discussion (forum) page, it goes to the tilte page but there are no discussion categories shown. I did save it after creating it. However, I also cannot get back to it, because I was playing with themes and chose one with no sidebar, so cannot get back to manage site. HELP???
HAve a look at http://community.wikidot.com/howto:forums-fixing-them
You can access any page on your wiki by typing its address in the browser address bar. So to get to your site manager you can always type http://swfc.wikidot.com/admin:manage whatever theme you are using.
Rob
Thank you for helping me get my menus back! And thanks for the other advice. I did go through the trouble-shooting guide you suggested. However, it still displayed the page with just the title. I could roll my mouse button over it and read it, but it would not stay on the screen. I just deleted my site and started over. It is working fine now. Thanks again!
You saved my friend's wiki forum.
I kind of messed it up, but I fixed it with this.
Thank you SO much!
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Nothing is working for me! I did exactly what you said. I messed up once and had to delete something but thats it! Every link doesn't exist! Please help me.
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http://community.wikidot.com/howto:forums-fixing-them if you have "deleted something"..
In case of emergency or impossibility you can ask one of our members/admins to help you directly - than you can invite her/him for membership and make him to admin.
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I did not create new groups or categories, instead showing the group named Hidden. Forum does not work. I get a blank page with title Forum Categories.
I also enabled per page discussion. It also does not work. I get a blank page with title Forum Thread when I click on Discuss.
Could not figure out.
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Have you read http://community.wikidot.com/howto:forums-fixing-them as that provides useful advice when forums are not working as expected.
Looking at your forum:start page I can't see that you have got [[module ForumStart]] in it. Make sure it does and check the rest of the advice on the link I gave.
Failing that, if you invite one of us admins to administer your site temporarily we can fix it and let you know what was wrong.
Rob
Thanks Rob.
It is so weird. I just checked the page and [[module ForumStart]] is there but still it was not working. Then I clicked Save (just for nothing) and now all is okay. Interesting..
Hi, im trying to put links to certain category pages in my top bar menu so my users have direct links to categories that list all the threads. Just like up above when it was talking about "The Forum Category Page", what is the coding for that blue link to the right of example? the one that brings you to "General Community Discussion"? I would like to put those kinds of links in my top bar menu for direct links to pages. Thanx
Do mean creating a link like this?
The Water Cooler Discussion
The above is a link to my very inactive forum, but you get the idea. The trick is to click the link to your main category that displays the threads. Then copy that URL and make a link out it. My link above looks like this:
You can create the link without the "*" to have it open in the same browser window.
Does this help?
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Yes, that is exactly what i was trying to find out. Thank you.
Hi All,
On my forum I would like to have ananymous user be able to create new threads and posts. I changed my permissions to allow anonymous; create pages, move/rename pages, upload files and rename files. BUT, if I then logout of my account and try to post or create a thread, "Opps…."
Any ideas? Can someone please test for me as well?
The forum permissions sit in a different area. Go to Forum | Permissions and give anonymous users the right to create threads, etc. Note that allowing anonymous edits is a good way to get spam.
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Thanks for that.
I have set up my (new) Wiki to be private (amongst family) and have just set up a forum for discussion, but even I, the MA, cannot start a new thread! I'm asked for my user name/password - and when I type it in, even that doesn't work!
try clearing all your cookies, this usually does the trick.
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Um… Is this spam, or replyy to an earlier post. If so, you can send them a pm. If it is spam, why are you spamming, and has anyone else noticed higher spam rates?
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No it's not spam. It seems to me that MRigney has just posted in the community forum by mistake instead of his own forum which is likely to be at http://welcomecubs.wikidot.com/. It does happen from time to time.
Rob
If it was spam, it would say something like:
80% Off All Nametags!
CLICK HERE FOR TWO FREE NAMETAGS!
Like Rob said, it appears to be someone who lost their way for a bit.
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I think I followed all instructions correctly. I successfuly created categories and added Forum (start) to the sidebar menu.
I don't understand why when I click on Form (start), it taks me to the category page. I don't see how I can start a new post. If I click at the bottom of the page (discuss), I get the New Post link. That seems to work fine, but I don't see how to categorize my post. Don't you categorize at the same time you create the post?
In summary: 1) Are you supposed to go to the categories page on forum start; 2) how to create a new post from the categories page 3) how to set a category when setting a new post.
I would really appreciate any help. Thanks.
Sounds liek you createdt he categories manually? You're not meant to do that.
Try deleting those pages, then going to Site Manager > Forum Discussion and click on the button titled 'activate forum'
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Please - do not delete the automatic generated "forum:.." .pages!
1.) like on our community site - the left menu poin "Forum" ( http://community.wikidot.com/forum:start) on the page "forum:start" leads tpo the "OVERVIEW" of all existing Grouos and Categories.
2) to create a new post select by clicking on one of the existing categories - and than you are in one of the (numbered) category "containers" like "/forum/c-16/forum-questions"
( in our community = http://community.wikidot.com/forum/c-16/forum-questions )
Here you can create a new "Thread" - opening a new worm of posts - with one post by you.
3) by selecting of a category such a thread and all posts within are set UNDER these category.
Hope this helps?
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Yes, this is great. I understand now. In the link that you sent — http://community.wikidot.com/forum/c-16/forum-questions ) - I understand the links are categories; then the bolded titles are all different forums — ie, The Community is a forum; Help is a forum, etc.?
When you use the comments module on a page so that comments can be posted below, is there a way to categorize them as you post them?
What do you mean by wanting to 'categorise' the comments?
They are sorted in chronological order, and you can determine whether you want that to be shown ascending (default) or descending (which I think can be done by the attribute order="reverse")
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This are /c-nnn/ containers ( = "single forum"s if you like this word) - relating to your site manager setup - where you have build ´"groups" and under them your "categories". You will find these groups here in the forum:start…
All this comments are stored in "ONE category" : the "Per page discussion" in the group "hidden".
Click on the "hidden" button at the bottom of the forzm overview and you will get the 2 automatically existing categories "per page discussions" and "deleted" ..
All comments belong in one side to the per page discussin (forum category) and on the other side they are LINKED to the pages - where the "module Comments" is inserted or the discuss buttton is allowed.
About your question of the categorisation: all "page" categories ( the name part before the first ":" ) with a comment using the "discuss" button have to be allowed "to use this button" in the setup of the forum in your site manager at - "forum & discussions" - Per page discussions" :
here you have to switch on for every "category:" for your pages where such per page discussion is posible…
On this site manager page you will find for EVERY existing category of your site the possibiility to disable/ enable ( or use the default) starting with this explanation:
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