Does anyone know how to restore the "Post New Comment" field to a Drupal 6 forum?
Until recently, our website forum worked normally in the sense that at the end of someone's post, you could see "Post New Comment." You could reply by typing in the fields displayed below.
Suddenly that Comment field disappeared. The only change to the site I can think of during this time is that the FCK editor on the site was first disabled and then enabled. But as far as I know there was no change made to the forum.
I'm new to Drupal so wasn't sure what to do. I checked Permissions, but the roles allow users to post. Then I checked Forum configuration but it doesn't show anything to do with "Post New Comment"
Is there some other section that allows you to click the comment field back on? Yeah, it's awkward having a forum where people can't comment, so your ideas are welcome!
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There must be a universal
There must be a universal setting for this because comments were once automatic. I'm closer to a solution because someone showed me that I can enable comments for each forum post I make as an admin.
But that leaves the larger issue of how to return the forum to having comment fields enabled for all who use the forum. Users don't have access to set comments for their post.
Any suggestions?
It's been a while since I
It's been a while since I used the core Drupal forums as is. But with all content types there are comment settings. I'm not sure if this applies to forum posts. Did you check the content type settings?
~ Ryan
Ryan, thanks - I just tried
Ryan, thanks - I just tried that and it worked! First time I've tinkered with the content type settings.
Somehow comment settings for forum got defaulted to disable comments and since I didn't make the change I didn't know where to look. Good to know for future reference!