Forum OpenACS Q&A: forum package

1: forum package

Posted by Anne Hammond on 12/11/05 04:49 AM

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

2: Re: forum package (response to 1)

Posted by Nick Carroll on 12/11/05 06:00 AM

Anne, you may want to check out the Survey package. That package can be configured for Q&A.

3: Re: forum package (response to 1)

Posted by Anne Hammond on 12/11/05 07:56 PM

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

4: Re: forum package (response to 1)

Posted by Aernout Schmidt on 12/11/05 10:09 PM

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

5: Re: forum package (response to 1)

Posted by Caroline Meeks on 12/11/05 11:21 PM

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.