Forum OpenACS Q&A: forum package

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Posted by Anne Hammond on
I wanted to create a question and answer site like the
Marine Corp Marathon site:

https://www.doitsports.com/bboard/q-and-a.tcl?topic=Marine%20Corps%20Marathon%20%2d%20Training

I have installed OpenACS 5.2.0b9, aolserver 4 and PostgreSQL 7.4.7 (although I found later that I could have used a later version of PostgreSQL--8.0).

Would the forums package be used to create this type of question and answer? I didn't find the forums package in the distributed packages with OpenACS 5.2.0b9.

Thanks in advance,
Anne Hammond
University of Colorado at Boulder

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2: Re: forum package (response to 1)
Posted by Nick Carroll on
Anne, you may want to check out the Survey package. That package can be configured for Q&A.
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3: Re: forum package (response to 1)
Posted by Anne Hammond on
I searched on the site for Survey package, but did not find it. Below is the contents of packages on 5.2.0d1.

Could anyone point me to it? I also downloaded OpenACS
5.1.5 - Openacs core packages, but Survey is not there.

Thanks in advance.

lcd 50# pwd
/usr/local/aolserver/openacs/packages

lcd 51# ls -la

drwxrwxrwx 11 openacs 512 Dec 10 18:45 ..
drwxrwxrwx 5 openacs 512 Dec 10 14:06 acs-admin
drwxrwxrwx 6 openacs 512 Dec 10 13:21 acs-api-browser
drwxrwxrwx 7 openacs 512 Dec 10 13:22 acs-authentication
drwxrwxrwx 6 openacs 512 Dec 10 13:22 acs-automated-testing
drwxrwxrwx 5 openacs 512 Dec 10 13:22 acs-bootstrap-installer
drwxrwxrwx 7 openacs 512 Dec 10 13:22 acs-content-repository
drwxrwxrwx 5 openacs 512 Dec 10 13:22 acs-core-docs
drwxrwxrwx 7 openacs 512 Dec 10 13:22 acs-kernel
drwxrwxrwx 10 openacs 512 Dec 10 13:22 acs-lang
drwxrwxrwx 7 openacs 512 Dec 10 13:22 acs-mail
drwxrwxrwx 6 openacs 512 Dec 10 13:22 acs-messaging
drwxrwxrwx 6 openacs 512 Dec 10 13:22 acs-reference
drwxrwxrwx 6 openacs 512 Dec 10 13:23 acs-service-contract
drwxrwxrwx 8 openacs 512 Dec 10 13:23 acs-subsite
drwxrwxrwx 8 openacs 512 Dec 10 13:23 acs-tcl
drwxrwxrwx 9 openacs 512 Dec 10 13:23 acs-templating
drwxr-xr-x 5 506 512 Jun 1 2003 forums
drwxr-xr-x 5 openacs 512 Dec 10 20:18 notes
drwxrwxrwx 6 openacs 512 Dec 10 13:25 ref-timezones
drwxrwxrwx 8 openacs 512 Dec 10 13:25 search

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4: Re: forum package (response to 1)
Posted by Aernout Schmidt on
You should be able to install these packages using the install software option, accessible through the administration button on your main site, when logged in as admin user
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5: Re: forum package (response to 1)
Posted by Caroline Meeks on
Hi Anne,

That exact format is from an older version of the tool kit. There is a forum package you can install which has several different options out of the box. Probably unthreaded is closest to the Q-and-A format.

It is also pretty straight forward to change the format of Forums. We've done a number of different minor customziations for clients. If you want to contact me I can show you some examples.