Sticky A Kunena Discuss workshop: How to allow my users to comment on my Joomla articles in my forum

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I just can't get a handle on where I create a category-certainly not at content tab!

I am attaching a screenshot taken from one of my J 3.2.2 sites where I use Kunena Discuss 3.0.1. This is an example of a fairly "typical" arrangement.

I have a forum category (category 11) where I want comments about Joomla articles I have written on my site.

In my case, I only want people to comment on articles contained in one Joomla article category (category 50). So, I have entered the following information into:

Kunena Discuss » Default Forum Category = 11
Kunena Discuss » Allowed Content Categories = 50

... and I have left most of the other settings almost unchanged. Does this help?

I'm not sure how that's going to get my articles to sink up, isn't there some sort of category I'm supposed to create-I think that's my hitch! But I will check your settings with mine.Usually to make something work, I have to create something and link it, I just can't see what that would be

Let me start by asking you two questions:

What category are your Joomla articles currently in now? What is the category id of those articles?

What I did was make a "article discussion" category and I made it the parent of all my other article categories. The Id seems to be unchangeable at 19 and I created it in the content tab area.I see no way to connect that category to the forums as it has no parent options and is the parent of all my article categories- I think making the category in the wrong place, I did try to do something under menus and that didn't work either....basically , I see no way to link my article discussion category to the forums