Hi Paul

Are you logged in as a user or a member?

The forum node has a "Allow new topics" checkbox. Make sure that it is checked.

Also look at the two textfields. They define which membergroups are allowed to create topics and so on in the forum. And as var as I recall, you can enter "Everyone" to let all logged in members create topics. (check the description text for the field)

Hope this helps. Otherwise, let me know.

Hi Morten

I'm logged in as a user. I have checked the 'Allow new topics' checkbox. I have set the Allow post Groups to Authorized as stated in the description to allow all members to add new posts. I have set the same value in the Admin groups.

After your post I have tried with Everyone, but it made no difference. I'm not able to do anything as a user except Log out.

/Paul S

"Authorized" sounds right.

A "user" in umbraco terms is a backend user, such as an editor. A "member" is a frontend user that is logged in to the site.

uForum only authorizes using "members". But it does sound like you are logged in as a member, since you can see a logout button.

In the uForum-TopicsList.xslt file, you can see this code:

<xsl:choose>
        <xsl:when test="uForum:CanPost()">
          <div class="infoBox" id="newTopic">
            <a href="{uForum:NicePostingUrl($currentPage/@id)}">Create a new topic</a>
            <br/>
            <small>Create a new topic in this forum</small>
          </div>
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:otherwise>
          <div class="infoBox" id="newTopic">
            <span>You cannot post</span>
            <br/>
            <small>You do not have permission to post in this forum</small>
          </div>
        </xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>

So i should show either the "create new topic" or the "you do not have permission" message.

Only reason it would not, is if this is not true:

<xsl:if test="number($currentPage/forumAllowNewTopics) = 1">

You could try and do a 

<xsl:value-of select="$currentPage/forumAllowNewTopics"/>

at the top of that macro, to test what to value actually is. Maybe there is a bug in that logic.

Hi Morten

This returns nothing:
#<xsl:value-of select="$currentPage/forumAllowNewTopics"/>

This returns 1:
<xsl:value-of select="$currentPage/data [@alias='forumAllowNewTopics']/text()"/>

Ahh, looks like you are using the legacy xml schema in umbraco 4.5.1?

In that case you will probably need to modify the xslt files to match the old schema.

Okay - I'll do that

Thanks Morten
/Paul S

Hi Morten

You don't by any chance have an old version of the xlst before they were translated into the new schema. I don't have trained XSLT eyes.

/Paul S

The thing is that the logic was changed together with the change to the new schema, so I don't have a version that supports the old schema currently.

I have a long train ride tonight, so I might take a look at it then. Should not be too difficult to translate back to the old schema.

Looks like that is actually the only line that needs to be changed:

<xsl:if test="number($currentPage/forumAllowNewTopics) = 1">

to

<xsl:if test="number($currentPage/data [@alias='forumAllowNewTopics']) = 1">

Meanwhile I upgraded to 4.5.2 and my old XSLT script still worked although I didn't set the UseLegacyXmlSchema - and uForum didn't - so I made the change and now it's working

Thanks again
Paul S

Hi

When I create a topic I get this

Page not found

No umbraco document matches the url 'http://vgc.dk/admin/baneoplaeg/generelt/3-Just-another-comment.aspx'

umbraco tried this to match it using this xpath query'/root/*/* [@urlName = "admin"]/* [@urlName = "baneoplaeg"]/* [@urlName = "generelt"]/* [@urlName = "3-just-another-comment"]')

This page can be replaced with a custom 404 page by adding the id of the umbraco document to show as 404 page in the /config/umbracoSettings.config file. Just add the id to the '/settings/content/errors/error404' element.

but it's in the list. But when I click on the comment I get this:

Page not found

No umbraco document matches the url 'http://vgc.dk/admin/baneoplaeg/generelt/3-Just-another-comment.aspx'

umbraco tried this to match it using this xpath query'/root/*/* [@urlName = "admin"]/* [@urlName = "baneoplaeg"]/* [@urlName = "generelt"]/* [@urlName = "3-just-another-comment"]')

This page can be replaced with a custom 404 page by adding the id of the umbraco document to show as 404 page in the /config/umbracoSettings.config file. Just add the id to the '/settings/content/errors/error404' element.

So I must still be missing something

/Paul S

The displaying of topics should be handled by a 404 handler in the /config/404handlers.config file. Could you check that there is a uForum related handler in there?

Then 404handlers.config looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<NotFoundHandlers>
  <notFound assembly="umbraco" type="SearchForAlias" />
  <notFound assembly="umbraco" type="SearchForTemplate" />
  <notFound assembly="uForum" type="SearchForTopic" />
  <notFound assembly="umbraco" type="SearchForProfile" />
  <notFound assembly="umbraco" type="handle404" />
</NotFoundHandlers>

It looks like you are still having issues with the cache being in the old format. 

Are you working directly on a production site? You should really be doing this sort of debugging on a local dev server. Especially when switching back and forth between xml formats!

The SearchForTopic handler currently looks at the node name (in your case "node"), and since that is not the expected nodetype ("uForum"), then it does not find what it is looking for, and does not handle the url.

So in order to get uForum working, you will need to get you cache cleared, probably by publishing all your nodes and doing a Republish Entire Site. But be ware! This much break the rest of the site, so I would strongly encourage you to get a dev version up and running to do this stuff on.

On my local copy I have now publish the whole site without any changes. I have also downloaded the source and the node name is indeed node instead of uForum in the SearchForTopicHandler.

Anything else I could try?

Is there a problem in doing this:

//if (urlNode != null && topicId != "" && urlNode.Name == ContentProperties.ForumDocumentTypeAlias)

.ForumDocumentTypeAlias)

?

Well, the problem is that then the code will break when the xml eventually changes to the new format (since the noteTypeAlias attribute does not exist there).

But you might get away with mixing the two. 

if (urlNode != null 
    && topicId != "" 
    && (urlNode.Name == ContentProperties.ForumDocumentTypeAlias
        || urlNode.Attributes.GetNamedItem("nodeTypeAlias").Value == ContentProperties.ForumDocumentTypeAlias))

Yes - I did that after posting - good idea to make it work with both schemas

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