'Start Discussion' missing

[steel]

The "Start Discussion" content action is missing. I am running 1.2 which was upgraded from 1.0 RC2 last month. Everything else is working find including the Create forum, but I cannot get the "Start Discussion" link to appear. The browse.jsp file is identical.

I am looking through all the config files to see if there might be a config error.

What is most likely the culprit for this?

thanks.

[gavinc]

It's most likely to be a permissions problem. The user needs to have CreateChildren permission on the node you are starting the discussion for.

[steel]

Correction. The original was 1.2 RC1 and now upgraded to 1.2.  The permissionDefinition.xml file is exactly the same as the new one. The the "createchildren" permission set specifically somewhere?  The uses are able to create home spaces and read/write just fine.  Even the system admin login is unable to start discussion.

thanks.

[gavinc]

Hmmm, the only other reason why this wouldn't show up is if the discussable aspect is already applied to the node or if the node is locked.

If a discussion has already been started on the node the "Discuss" option should appear instead, this will be a small icon under the node title.

Is this what is happening or have both options disappeared?

[steel]

Hmmm, the only other reason why this wouldn't show up is if the discussable aspect is already applied to the node or if the node is locked.

If a discussion has already been started on the node the "Discuss" option should appear instead, this will be a small icon under the node title.

Is this what is happening or have both options disappeared?

Both icons have disappeared. Not sure why. Does the discussable aspect need to be applied to new nodes?

[gavinc]

The discussable aspect is applied once you click the "Start Discussion" link and post the inital message.

Does the node in question have the discussable aspect applied? You can browse to the node via the node browser (in the admin console). This will list the aspects applied to the node.

[steel]

The discussable aspect is applied once you click the "Start Discussion" link and post the inital message.

Does the node in question have the discussable aspect applied? You can browse to the node via the node browser (in the admin console). This will list the aspects applied to the node.

The discussable aspect is not applied to the node. This behavior is really strange. 

Question:

<a:booleanEvaluator value="#{r.beingDiscussed == false && r.locked == false}">‍

Where is the "beingDiscussed" property resolver defined? Maybe its implementation has not been updated to the latest version in my deployment.

thanks.

[gavinc]

Hi,

If i remember rightly it is added in ForumsBean when the list of nodes is built up (in getNodes()).

There should be a custom resolver in ForumsBean that implements the logic.

This is indeed strange, if there is no aspect the option should appear. We also changed the config files around a little in between RC1 and the final release, it may also be worth checking you don't have any old config files still in the classpath.

[steel]

I'll double check my config files again. The forumsbean is identical to the release one.

[steel]

This issue has been more of an annoyance than a problem.  But I finally found the culprit.

the problems was in web-client-config.xml.

I was missing:

<config evaluator="string-compare" condition="Node Event Listeners">
        <!– Managed beans that wish to be notified of Node events from the BrowseBean –>
        <node-event-listeners>
            <listener>ForumsBean</listener>
        </node-event-listeners>
    </config>‍‍‍‍‍‍

Now to move on with life.