Question my RSS feed is on a dirty protest

CB was a problem but not the issue that messed up your RSS feed. The RSS came good after I posted a new topic. I did the CB upgrade as a favour to you.

mmm so there IS a bug in this forum? I've just done exactly the same thing in the live site that you did in the test site and surprise surprise Cilla, it doesn't work.

I'd love to see what type of hand this forum was intended for if its supposed to fit like a glove.

I used to run over night batch and backup schedules, correct JCL and bring up online systems in the morning for major banks and car manufacturers. This is beyond me.

You get what you pay for!

G'day, Bruce.

I made perhaps half-a-dozen changes to your test site. By the end of the process we had everything working. I can't say for sure that what I did made a difference or not. However, to summarise the changes I made, this is what I did.

• Uninstalled Agora forum software
• Removed (unpublished) references to other forums
• Disabled the System - Legacy plugin (your dev. site is now running Joomla 1.5 native)
• Modified the two SEO settings so that your site is now using native Joomla SEF URLs (this also allows Kunena to use SEF URLs)
• Removed Community Builder 1.2 com_comprofiler and mod_cblogin components
• Installed Community Builder 1.2.1 com_comprofiler and mod_cblogin components
• Published (enabled) and configured CB 1.2.1 Forum Integration plugin for Kunena
• Modified a couple of minor Kunena configuration settings (for example, turned off "subscribe me by default when I post" setting - not important but helpful, perhaps.

Would you like me to review your live site, similarly?

Cheers

sozz

...Since you asked so nicely.

I didn't realise you'd done so much. How did you work out what needed doing? All these different modules are written by different people - how do you work out what's what?

I appreciate your efforts.

live user name and password now the same as dev image.

sheffieldlions.co.uk/joomla2/administrator/

many many many many many many many many many thanks.

I'll have a look for you and PGM=IEFBR14 as appropriate

Yeah, I've lived in the IBM world, too! :blink:

Bruce, I got it all working eventually. The "trick" was in the way the forum categories were setup. I'll explain that later.

This is a summary of the steps I went through:

• Turn off legacy mode
• Turn on Joomla SEO/SEF
• Install Kunena 1.5.4
• Uninstall Community Builder 1.2
• Install CB 1.2.1
• Configured CB 1.2.1 to work with Kunena. I also created a CB member list - the CB items took half an hour to piece together.
• Add CB items to user menu; add Kunena to top menu; publish top menu on all pages
• Reviewed Kunena settings and adjusted the forum parameters

I made a number of recommendations in my Wiki article ( docs.kunena.com/index.php/Configuration#...nfiguration_settings ) which, basically, give effect to making your forum categories accessible to the public. These settings are:

• Locked = no
• Public Access Level = Everybody
• Include Child Groups = yes
• Admin Access Level = Manager
• Include Child Groups = yes
• Review posts = no

In your case I changed the Public Access Level and the two Include Child Groups settings (I don't know what they do - they may have no effect - but they do no harm that I can see). The main change, therefore, as far as generating a RSS feed for all to see is concerned, is to set the forum category to Public Access Level = Yes.

Of course you can change these categories and restrict their view so that non-registered users cannot see their contents and, in doing so, you also cut those items from the RSS feed. Makes sense, doesn't it. If you don't want non-registered users to see your forum material then why provide them a back-door means to view that material via RSS feeds.

You have a problem with your Joomla template that it doesn't collapse the left or right-hand modules neatly. This will mean that your Kunena forum will be constricted in width. I like the theme you've chosen but I don't think the template will work for you without making considerable changes to the CSS.

Cheers