Sticky [Merged topic] The great, frequently-asked, "I cannot create a new thread in my forum" question

I cannot figure out how to get the Post to Forum link to work or the New Thread icon to show up in my forum.

I am logged in as a user.

Using Joomla 1.5 and the latest version of Kunena.

Can you explain in more detail? Where is the "post to Forum link" you refer to located? What is your access setting for your forum?

That's a very good question. Thank you for asking it.

I agree with you that the mechanics of posting messages and creating new threads are not intuitive; however, I observe that, by creating a new discussion topic yourself, you've already demonstrated your awareness of how to do it! You haven't stated, though, if the functionality is non operational at your site, so I'll assume that you don't have anything broken.

To summarise the procedure, your users won't see the icon unless they're viewing a message board or forum (to use the Kunena term).

Users can, of course, to messages they're viewing and that's one way your users will develop confidence to contribute to the discussions. When users want to start their own discussion topics, like you have done here, things get a bit trickier. To start the process they need to be viewing a "forum". For example, at www.kunena.com , your browser would need to displaying a page like www.kunena.com/forum?func=showcat&catid=2 .

Now, if you could package what I've just written into an easy-to-follow procedure for your users, your blood would be worth bottling! :laugh:

The page I am referring to is located at:
www.pagecafe.org/din/component/option,co...func=showcat&catid=1

It says Post to Forum at the top, but there is no area to submit content or a link on the Post to Forum text.


I am not sure what you mean by "When users want to start their own discussion topics, like you have done here, things get a bit trickier. To start the process they need to be viewing a "forum"." What is a forum?

I must be missing something somewhere!:dry:

You have other problems. No graphical elements showing. CSS doesn't look like it's loading. You've got some kind of infinite loop going on with your links. Probably more that I haven't seen.

Do you have some kind of SEF enabled? Were there errors when you installed Kunena?

We had plans for 1.1 (in fact is already done) to allow creating of new threads from everywhere, using a category selector done in ajax (you can thank jonijnm for it ), but the strong desire for 1.5 native version got priority, but you can expect this system in future releases. That way we will be able to create new posts not only from categoryes, but from anywhere we decide to put a button. Also we will be able to post to another forum different that the one we're currently (that one will still be marked as default when calling the post editor from there)