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Learning Drupal 8

You're reading from   Learning Drupal 8 Create complex websites quickly and easily using the building blocks of Drupal 8, the most powerful version of Drupal yet

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782168751
Length 328 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Introduction FREE CHAPTER 2. Installation 3. Basic Concepts 4. Getting Started with the UI 5. Basic Content 6. Structure 7. Advanced Content 8. Configuration 9. Users and Access Control 10. Optional Features 11. Reports 12. Extending Drupal 13. Theming Drupal 14. Getting Support Index

Forum


The Forum module empowers you to create discussion forums on your website.

Enable the Forum module now, and once you have enabled, navigate to Structure | Forums (admin/structure/forum).

When installed for the first time, the Forum module creates an initial forum called General discussion:

Containers

You can set up the hierarchy of your forum by creating one or more containers and then creating a number of forums inside these containers.

Click on the Add container button to create a new container:

Then, give the container a name and some optional descriptive text. After doing this, Save it:

What you have actually done here is set up a taxonomy as discussed back in Chapter 6, Structure.

If you navigate to Manage | Structure | Taxonomy (admin/structure/taxonomy), you will see a vocabulary called Forum.

Click to list the terms:

Top level categories in this vocabulary represent the Containers and second level categories represent the Forums.

You can drag and drop to set up your Forum structure just...

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