Question

I am using the DiscussionForumAddOn in conjunction with the CommentPlugin in an attempt to implement a blogging system on my local TWiki. Apart from tweaking a little with the appearance of the ouputted pages I have not altered the original DiscussionForumAddOn. Currently the blog is made up of articles which have a comment box, derived from the CommentPlugin at the bottom of each article allowing users to make comments.

Each article is made up of header information derived from the DiscussionForumHead file and the body of the article itself. Upon submitting a comment, the comment text should be added onto the end of the article. However, this is not happening and instead of reloading the page with the newly added comment, the generic DiscussionForumHead file is displayed.

If you exclude the header INCLUDE from the article file then the comment is displayed properly. Does anyone know why this happens or has encountered this problem before. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

-- DeclanGraham - 12 May 2004

Answer

Are you refering to the DiscussionForum on TWiki.org? This looks like a bug with the latest TWiki installed on TWiki.org. See related SupportFormBroken.

-- PeterThoeny - 12 May 2004

Follow-up

Sorry Peter, the first paragraph of my question seems to have gone astray. I'm using DiscussionForum on my local TWiki and was not refering to the DiscussionForum on TWiki.org. I've prepended the first paragraph to the question above. Hope this clarifies things.

-- DeclanGraham - 12 May 2004

SteveRJones implies in CommentPluginDev that there are a number of issues with DiscussionForumAddOn - you may want to consult with him as to the nature of those issues, as they may cover your problems?

-- CrawfordCurrie - 12 May 2004

I have found this to be a problem that first showed up with the April 11 release of CommentPlugin. I had to backrev to the Feb 18 version and DiscussionForumAddOn appears to work fine.

I am in the process of updating the DiscussionForumAddOn and if I can figure out what is happening I will fix it (unles someone does it forst). Otherwise, there will be a posted CAVEAT wrt to the version of CommentPlugin that it is compatible with.

-- SteveRJones - 12 May 2004

No follow-up so I'm setting this to "answered". -- CC