Question Kunena Discuss: Can not make it work

Hello
I found the solution : www.kunena.org/forum/180-Kunena-Discuss-...s-not-working-at-all

chellofr: exactly! :woohoo:

WSC wrote: I have the same problem with Category Mapping. However if a put a Default forum category in, the "Discuss this article" appears on every article and posts to the Default forum. But equally when I do this, the Allowed/Denied content categories don't work.

So as it stands I either have a "Discuss" on every page or none of them.

Would you also like to post a screenshot of your Kunena Discuss settings, too, please? Maybe then we can discover the cause of your same/similar problem. It would also assist your case to provide us with a copy of your configuration report.

*** General observations ***

What we have discovered in this topic so far is that there is no defect in the Kunena Discuss plugin. The problems that people (who have resolved their issues) were having were caused by their unfamiliarity with the plugin and the lack of a good set of instructions that explains how to use Kunena Discuss properly. Writing good instructions takes time but it is not solely my responsibility, other forum moderators or the developers to write that documentation. Any member of this community can write documentation.

If anyone would like to help us write better documentation, please send me a PM and I'll be only to glad to answer any questions people may have with writing documentation. With better documentation we can help a lot more people quicker and better than we're doing at the moment and I think that's what our main objectives should be. Thanks.

Sorry - I started another thread as this one looked like it was moving towards resolution. As I said there:

I was having trouble getitng Kunena Discuss to work properly as I was using the top-level category ID in the Category Mapping box (what uesd to be known as a Section in old Joomla). When I replaced this with the lower category that actually contained the articles in question, it was fine and posted to the correct forum.

Is it not possible to use the top-level category in Mapping? I have over 200 sub categories - surely I don't have to map each one individually?

Let me make sure that I understand your question correctly: you have 200 categories (or sub-categories, if we want to be literally correct) for Joomla articles, is that right? You want to map each "J! article" category's articles to separate Kunena forum categories. Is that a fair summary of your question? :dry:

No. I have Category called Daily News (ID 88) that contains sub-categories for months, each of which contains articles. I have created a new forum category Daily News Discussion (ID 35). If I set the Category Mapping as 88,35 I get nothing.

However if I take the ID of October 2011 (139), which is a subcategory of Daily News, and enter 139,35 then the Discussion appears below the articles for October 2011, as you'd expect. And if I add September 2011 (ID 138) so it reads 139,35;138,35 then it appears on September as well, as you'd expect. So it works on that level.

So my question is: do I have to map each sub-category individually, rather than being able to include all sub-categories by mapping the top level category?