Nothing happens even if I click on a category

meetdilip

I am a bit confused the way categories work. I have known it to work a board which will list the topics inside it when someone clicks on it. But on my forum www.techiewiz.in it is not working. I tried 3 different themes and it is simply displays a list of categories. Can anyone please shed some light on how to click on a category name and get all of the topics inside it listed ?

peregrine

yes, you have a problem.

try creating a new category, and a new discussion and see if you have a problem with the new category.

also post your config.php minus sensitive info.

you may need to recreate categories if the above works.

if not - you may have a problem with routing or .htaccess or something else.

peregrine

looks like it worked creating a new category. the question is, what broke the other categories.

maybe utility/structure or /utility/update or the http://yourforumnamehere/dba/counts

R_J

Not sure if I understand your problem... If you want to see all discussions of one category, you simply have to click on the category name either in the category module or in www.example.com/categories. The link should point to www.example.com/categories/thenameofoneofyourcategories

meetdilip

@R_J said:
Not sure if I understand your problem... If you want to see all discussions of one category, you simply have to click on the category name either in the category module or in www.example.com/categories. The link should point to www.example.com/categories/thenameofoneofyourcategories

Please do the same at www.techiewiz.in, you will understand. When I click on category name, nothing happens.

peregrine

yes, you have a problem.

try creating a new category, and a new discussion and see if you have a problem with the new category.

also post your config.php minus sensitive info.

you may need to recreate categories if the above works.

if not - you may have a problem with routing or .htaccess or something else.

peregrine

looks like it worked creating a new category. the question is, what broke the other categories.

maybe utility/structure or /utility/update or the http://yourforumnamehere/dba/counts

meetdilip

Actually what happened is I saved the categories as " Categories ", instead of " Default ".

peregrine

@meetdilip said:
Actually what happened is I saved the categories as " Categories ", instead of " Default ".

glad it was solved. .... but .....
not sure what you mean, got screenshot.

meetdilip

@peregrine said:

While I create a categories there is a drop down menu with 3 options. 1. Default 2. Categories 3. ...

I thought I should choose category as option and did it for all categories. Now I changed the drop down menu option to " Default ".

peregrine

peregrine said:

@meetdilip said: Actually what happened is I saved the categories as " Categories ", instead of " Default ".

peregrine said: glad it was solved. .... but ..... not sure what you mean, got screenshot.

meetdilip said: While I create a categories there is a drop down menu with 3 options. 1. Default 2. Categories 3. ... I thought I should choose category as option and did it for all categories. Now I changed the drop down menu option to " Default ".

thx.

oh, ok you selected like this and that was what caused your issue. when what you wanted should have been "default" in dropdown. I never paid much attention to others and not sure what they do, other than what you experienced.

R_J

@meetdilip said:
Please do the same at www.techiewiz.in, you will understand. When I click on category name, nothing happens.

Nope, all like expected. Try it a) logged out and b) in another browser.

peregrine

r_j said: Nope, all like expected. Try it a) logged out and b) in another browser.

it works now r_j problem solved.

if you want to recreate the same issue on your forum r_j choose categories in the "Display as" dropdown instead of default.

might be the beer playing tricks on you?

peregrine

seems to be a new option introduced into 2.1 vs. 2.0.18.x

not exactly sure under what circumstances someone would want to use something other than default though, and that may be the reason other people have had mysterious problems with categories (st to the worng DisplayAs field).

code dealing with DisplayAs dropdown box relating to Category (aside from the settings itself).

in english - This category is an overview style category and displays as a category list. ---- if Category chosen as DisplayAs (so not really clickable to see discussions it seems).

not exactly sure what impact display as discussion really does though (although it gets changed to Category depending on NavDepth.

from categories controller

 if ($Category->DisplayAs == 'Categories') {
            // This category is an overview style category and displays as a category list.
            switch($Layout) {
               case 'mixed':
                  $this->View = 'discussions';
                  $this->Discussions();
                  break;
               case 'table':
                  $this->Table();
                  break;
               default:
                  $this->View = 'all';
                  $this->All();
                  break;
            }
            return;
         }

from categorymodel.....

if ($Category['DisplayAs'] == 'Default') {
            if ($Category['Depth'] <= C('Vanilla.Categories.NavDepth', 0))
               $Category['DisplayAs'] = 'Categories';
            else
               $Category['DisplayAs'] = 'Discussions';
         }




     if ($Category['DisplayAs'] == 'Categories') {
         // This is an overview category so grab it's recent data from it's children.
         foreach ($Category['ChildIDs'] as $CategoryID) {
            if (!isset($Categories[$CategoryID]))
               continue;

            $ChildCategory =& $Categories[$CategoryID];
            if ($ChildCategory['DisplayAs'] == 'Categories') {
               self::JoinRecentChildPosts($ChildCategory, $Categories);
            }
            $Timestamp = Gdn_Format::ToTimestamp($ChildCategory['LastDateInserted']);

            if ($LastTimestamp === FALSE || $LastTimestamp < $Timestamp) {
               $LastTimestamp = $Timestamp;
               $LastCategoryID = $CategoryID;
            }
         }

         if ($LastCategoryID) {
            $LastCategory = $Categories[$LastCategoryID];

            $Category['LastCommentID'] = $LastCategory['LastCommentID'];
            $Category['LastDiscussionID'] = $LastCategory['LastDiscussionID'];
            $Category['LastDateInserted'] = $LastCategory['LastDateInserted'];
            $Category['LastTitle'] = $LastCategory['LastTitle'];
            $Category['LastUserID'] = $LastCategory['LastUserID'];
            $Category['LastDiscussionUserID'] = $LastCategory['LastDiscussionUserID'];
            $Category['LastUrl'] = $LastCategory['LastUrl'];
            $Category['LastCategoryID'] = $LastCategory['CategoryID'];
         }
      }

peregrine

@linc - solutionsayer badge for @meetdilip

reporting about arcane feature and solution to their own problem. Arcane enhancement to me.

Also, maybe a note on the form itself to give some explanatory features of implications of using

DisplayAs Discussion vs Category vs. Default might be handy.

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/214697/#Comment_214697

peregrine

Also if you pick "DisplayAs" Category - it will stop rss feeds on that category. even though the orange rss feeds button still appears (ehich it probably shouldn't).

possible but probably cosmetic design bug.

https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/issues/2064