ForumNG

Hi,
We have both Forum and ForumNG, and I am wondering what the main differences are? We are running Moodle 2.6.4
Also is it possible to transfer or restore Forum discussions into ForumNG to allow them to be downloaded in their entirity? disciusiions which are

I'm afraid there is no mechanism to switch forumng content over to core forums. There are known issues with forumng in 2.7 (as reported to the github site e.g. https://github.com/moodleou/moodle-mod_forumng/issues/27), but unfortunately we will not be releasing any 2.7 official fixes until August/September.

Thanks for raising the issue, Jason. I've upgraded my production site to 2.7 and FourmNG won't install. That means some of my older forums no longer work. Is there a way to transfer posts made back to a regular forum? You can transfer forum>forumng but can you go backwards as well?
I should have obviously checked this before upgrading, but it's done now.

Guido, that looks like an error due to a problem with the query in mysql (we haven't tested on that for some time). It's probably a simple fix in that the count field is not explicitly defined - in postgres you don't need to...
Errors can be reported in the github project; I've raised this issue for you: https://github.com/moodleou/moodle-mod_forumng/issues/25

Hi there,
I get an error when I try show usage (using 2.6.2) and the latest copy of Forum NG (2014021200):
[Sat May 03 21:31:43 2014] [error] [client 1.1.1.1] Default exception handler: Error reading from database Debug: Unknown column 'count' in 'order clause'\n\n SELECT count(ff.id), fp.id\n from mdl2_forumng_flags ff\n inner join mdl2_forumng_posts fp on fp.id = ff.postid\n inner join mdl2_forumng_discussions fd on fd.id = fp.discussionid\n where fd.forumngid = ?\n and fd.deleted = 0\n and fp.deleted = 0\n and fp.oldversion = 0\n \n group by fp.id\n order by count desc, fp.id desc LIMIT 0, 5\n[array (\n 0 => '6',\n)]\nError code: dmlreadexception\n* line 443 of /lib/dml/moodle_database.php: dml_read_exception thrown\n* line 933 of /lib/dml/mysqli_native_moodle_database.php: call to moodle_database->query_end()\n* line 310 of /mod/forumng/feature/usage/usage.php: call to mysqli_native_moodle_database->get_recordset_sql()\n, referer: http://mymoodle.com/mod/forumng/view.php?id=124
I did get an installation error when I installed the latest copy of ForumNG but it went through after I purged caches. Could it be that this is a hangover from an incorrect installation?

I just installed ForumNG on Moodle 2.5.2, and it works great. It is so exciting to be able to see all of a student's postings and grade on one screen. Thanks so much for creating this!

@Sam, this would be absolutely wonderful because it doesn't work like that in the standard Moodle forums. If you have access to one of several separate group you DO receive emails from all groups. I read a post about this, but can't find it anymore.

Isabelle, there is no decent documentation that I know of, just some chicken scratchings here: http://docs.moodle.org/26/en/ForumNG
If you test this out, you can as Sam suggests write stuff.
-Derek

Isabelle: We would encourage people to write documentation on ForumNG.
I suggest testing if you have a complex situation, but off the top of my head the answer is, if you are subscribed to an entire forum, then you receive notifications for all the groups that you can access. So if it's a separate-groups forum and you are a student, then you would only receive emails for your group and not for the other groups you can't see.
If you have access to more than one group, it's also possible (at user's option) to subscribe to only specific groups (this is normally useful for teachers who have access to multiple groups but are only actually supposed to be moderating a single one, or for visible-groups forums).

There does not seem to be any documentation on ForumNG, so I don't know where to find ans answer for my burning question: if you use groups in a forum, are notifications of posts sent to just the group it is posted in or to all participants?

You could certainly add the word count into the theme by having a renderer override render_post(). However I'm not sure how you would have that controllable without a local change e.g. it would appear on every forum.

Hi again,
In the standard forum, the word count is displayed at the end of each post. The forum setting has the option of displaying it or not.
I don't think the setting can be overridden within themes if we use ForumNG; however, there are two files (mod/forum) that seems to keep the code for the wordcount: lib.php and mod_form.php. I wonder if they could be modified locally. Any ideas?

Where would word count be shown? If it were somewhere that uses a renderer function you can override these within your theme to add in a word count. Unfortunately the participation screen (which is where this would most naturally sit) doesn't use a renderer function so that would have to be a local change. We are looking to add to and improve this area so word count might be something we could consider to add ourselves.

Hello Jason,
I installed ForumNG on our Moodle 2.5.2+ Linux test server. My team is really happy with all the features it will bring to our Faculty.
One question I have is: Is there a way to modify the php code to allow word count on forum posts? Our Faculty is using that function to grade students participation. Any help will be appreciated.

Hi, how stable is Forum NG for Moodle 2.4.x?