[Hugo Ashmore]

@jabberjazz
Jane to answer the question from the other thread; yes the support forums are of use, as can be seen by the number of issues raised and solutions provided, of course not all issues are that easy to get to the root of, especially without a lot of detailed info and steps to hopefully reproduce the issue on a local dev install.

I have had this issue before and oddly just a second ago, what causes it ? Can’t tell you for sure, my install was pretty clean no plugins to speak of , forums had been installed, one test group forum activated, create topic -> failure , re-install forums using existing installation , still no joy, create a new group with forum, create a topic -> success ?? something to do with that original group I set up was out of sequence ?

Checking my DB shows that the forum name and id doesn’t exist for the group forum acting up only the default id and group forum recently created are seen.

Soooo I go back to the troublesome group as the admin I go to the admin tab of the group I select ‘Group Settings’ I am shown the initial screen one sees after creating a group and the ‘Enable Discussion Forum’ checkbox. I – unnecessarily – uncheck and check again that box and then select save at bottom of screen – tab back to my DB and yep forum group now is entered!

Attempt to create new topic – success!

So can you give the above procedure a try and report back to us whether it worked or not.

And I hope this changes your opinion on whether there is a help to be found on this support forum