Drupal Forums and Blocks
Sat, 2011-12-17 18:48
I'd like to implement a Forum/Community on a website and know I can do that with the Forums module that is part of Drupal 7 Core. Since the forum will have a number of different topics (i.e., home remodeling, gardening, lawn care). The site itself will be divided into similar topic areas with articles, pages, etc. of related content.
Is there a way to basically subdivide the forums so that I can put 'New Forum Topics' in a sidebar block but only have 'new topics' related to a specific forum topic appear within the block associated with a specific area of the site? I'd like posts about gardening to show up within the Gardening section, but not the Home Remodel section, and vice versa.
Answering my own question here...
Once you've installed the forums module and setup your forums, you can use Views to create a block.
You'll also have go in under Structure and create a Taxonomy for your forum topics. Once the taxonomy is created for your forum, you'll go into Views and create a filter for Content: Forums (taxonomy_forums) and then select the forum topic on the subsequent screen to limit content shown in that view to that forum topic.