navigating to parent of a document-associated forum topic

[jason_botwick]

One of my users has noticed that there is no easy way to navigate from a forum, topic or post back to the document that it's associated with. Using the bread crumbs, you can get back to the space containing the document under which the forum presumably lies, but you can't go right to the document itself. In a space containing a lot of documents, this is a pain. Users sometimes forget the name of the document when they navigate up to the parent space, or they must page down to find it, or whatever.

This seems strange to me. Clearly the forum is associated with the specific document, since the discussion icon appears with it in its parent space. So why is the forum topic list or a post within not aware of its parent document? Where is this connection made?

Can anyone suggest a way to derive a link to a forum's parent document inside the topic.jsp file?

Thanks,
Jason

[gavinc]

You're quite right, there is no easy way to get back to the parent document in the UI.

Basically any node that has a discussion has a "discussable" aspect applied to it. This aspect defines a "fm:discussion" association which points to an instance of a fm:forum object. The fm:forum object is the object you are seeing when you click on the view discussion icon for a node.

It should therefore be possible to navigate back from the fm:forum object to the document/space it is representing and thus display a link. However, if you do this you have to bear in mind that the forum.jsp/topic.jsp pages are also used for standalone forums i.e. not tied to a document/space.

The best thing to do is raise this as a new feature in JIRA.