Hi All,

Please I tried cloning the mojoPortal forums, and followed the steps in the documentation.

Cloning the blog feature was successful, and worked.

But for the forum, it was also successful, the script ran, and DB tables were created.

But when I add it to a page, nothing shows.

Please has anybody had this challenge before. What could be wrong?

Hi Joe,

Have done all that.

Followed the documentation to the letter.

Please see below log ( problem seems to be with ForumDisplaySettings)

2011-09-14 17:10:28,600 ERROR 10.101.5.202 - en-US - /home.aspx - mojoPortal.Web.UI.CmsPage - failed to load control CampusForums/ForumModule.ascx
System.Web.HttpParseException (0x80004005): Unknown server tag 'forum:ForumDisplaySettings'. ---> System.Web.HttpParseException (0x80004005): Unknown server tag 'forum:ForumDisplaySettings'. ---> System.Web.HttpException (0x80004005): Unknown server tag 'forum:ForumDisplaySettings'.
   at System.Web.UI.TagPrefixTagNameToTypeMapper.System.Web.UI.ITagNameToTypeMapper.GetControlType(String tagName, IDictionary attribs)
   at System.Web.UI.MainTagNameToTypeMapper.GetControlType2(String tagName, IDictionary attribs, Boolean fAllowHtmlTags)
   at System.Web.UI.MainTagNameToTypeMapper.GetControlType(String tagName, IDictionary attribs, Boolean fAllowHtmlTags)
   at System.Web.UI.RootBuilder.GetChildControlType(String tagName, IDictionary attribs)
   at System.Web.UI.ControlBuilder.CreateChildBuilder(String filter, String tagName, IDictionary attribs, TemplateParser parser, ControlBuilder parentBuilder, String id, Int32 line, VirtualPath virtualPath, Type& childType, Boolean defaultProperty)
   at System.Web.UI.TemplateParser.ProcessBeginTag(Match match, String inputText)
   at System.Web.UI.TemplateParser.ParseStringInternal(String text, Encoding fileEncoding)
   at System.Web.UI.TemplateParser.ProcessException(Exception ex)
   at System.Web.UI.TemplateParser.ParseStringInternal(String text, Encoding fileEncoding)
   at System.Web.UI.TemplateParser.ParseString(String text, VirtualPath virtualPath, Encoding fileEncoding)
   at System.Web.UI.TemplateParser.ProcessException(Exception ex)
   at System.Web.UI.TemplateParser.ParseStringInternal(String text, Encoding fileEncoding)
   at System.Web.UI.TemplateParser.ParseString(String text, VirtualPath virtualPath, Encoding fileEncoding)
   at System.Web.UI.TemplateParser.ParseFile(String physicalPath, VirtualPath virtualPath)
   at System.Web.UI.TemplateParser.ParseInternal()
   at System.Web.UI.TemplateParser.Parse()
   at System.Web.Compilation.BaseTemplateBuildProvider.get_CodeCompilerType()
   at System.Web.Compilation.BuildProvider.GetCompilerTypeFromBuildProvider(BuildProvider buildProvider)
   at System.Web.Compilation.BuildProvidersCompiler.ProcessBuildProviders()
   at System.Web.Compilation.BuildProvidersCompiler.PerformBuild()
   at System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.CompileWebFile(VirtualPath virtualPath)
   at System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.GetVPathBuildResultInternal(VirtualPath virtualPath, Boolean noBuild, Boolean allowCrossApp, Boolean allowBuildInPrecompile, Boolean throwIfNotFound, Boolean ensureIsUpToDate)
   at System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.GetVPathBuildResultWithNoAssert(HttpContext context, VirtualPath virtualPath, Boolean noBuild, Boolean allowCrossApp, Boolean allowBuildInPrecompile, Boolean throwIfNotFound, Boolean ensureIsUpToDate)
   at System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.GetVPathBuildResult(HttpContext context, VirtualPath virtualPath, Boolean noBuild, Boolean allowCrossApp, Boolean allowBuildInPrecompile, Boolean ensureIsUpToDate)
   at System.Web.UI.TemplateControl.LoadControl(VirtualPath virtualPath)
   at System.Web.UI.TemplateControl.LoadControl(String virtualPath)
   at mojoPortal.Web.UI.CmsPage.LoadPage() in C:\Code\Campus\Web\Default.aspx.cs:line 251

Oops!

Found the issue.

This line below still had mojoPortal.Features.UI.

<%@ Register Namespace="mojoPortal.Web.ForumUI" Assembly="mojoPortal.Features.UI" TagPrefix="forum" %>

I did a ReplaceAll to my own assembly, and it just works perfectly.

Sorry for the trouble.

Thanks all the same.

Maybe when I'm done, I'd consider contributing the extension, If it's standard enough.

Hi Joe,

Saw this in the roadmap for the Forums feature.

    Sticky threads - completed
    option for pre-moderation of posts before they are visible
    ability to mark posts as questions and vote posts as answers

1. Please what are "Sticky threads", and what are they used for?

2. I actually intend to try and extend the forum such that one will be able to add comments to Questions/Responses, and also vote on questions. recall that I've asked about this before... in this post

Any advice on the best way to implement this will be appreciated.

3. In the code, I discovered that "mp_" is hard-coded, so the custom forum I cloned is creating entries in the original mp_ tables, even though I changed this in the install script. Do I have to replace all these in the code also? If yes, I'd suggest that the documentation be updated a little to include this, cos it just said to do the replace in the install scripts.

Thanks.

Thanks Joe.

The response speed still beats my imagination.

Regards.

Dear Joe,

Sorry for my trouble.

Thanks for your help so far.

This part of code is having an IndexOutOfRangeException(pls see highlighted part below).

This portion is in the ForunThread class.

Seems there's a problem with "ModuleID".

I drilled down to the stored procedure cmp_ForumThreads_SelectOne, it seems "ModuleID" is not part of the fields returned.

Kindly assist.

private void GetThread(int threadId)
        {
            using (IDataReader reader = DBForums.ForumThreadGetThread(threadId))
            {
                if (reader.Read())
                {
                    this.threadID = int.Parse(reader["ThreadID"].ToString());
                    if (reader["ForumID"] != DBNull.Value)
                    {
                        this.forumID = this.origForumID = int.Parse(reader["ForumID"].ToString());
                    }
                    if (reader["ModuleID"] != DBNull.Value)
                    {
                        this.moduleID = this.origForumID = int.Parse(reader["ModuleID"].ToString());
                    }

Thanks Joe.

I discovered that the issue was that f.ModuleID was not in my own customized stored procedure (mp_ForumThreads_SelectOne). I added this, and the issue resolved.

However, i checked the original script, f.ModuleID was not part of the script.

I wonder how this field got created in the stored procedure.

Anyway, the issue is now resolved.

Yes. Thank you.

That helps a lot, and also clarifies many things.

Thanks for your time and assistance.