Creating Folders in the Discussion Area

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urshah

I am using Alfresco 3 Enterprise and am the manager of a new share site called the "The Cafe".
I have discussions as part the site activity, but am trying to organize the discussions people post.

At the moment, people can post any topic at the top level.
What i would like to do is create sections (just like the Alfresco forum) where there are categories that people navigate to in order to post.
Example, "Announcements", "How I use LAfresco" etc…

Having them all post to the top level would cause many different topics to be discussed there. I would like to organize it better.
I tried setting up folders in the web client, but they don't appear in share.

How do i setup these high level folders or categories that people can drill into to post related discussions?

mikeh

Because the current Discussions implementation has no concept of sections, this would involve bespoke development.

It doesn't sound too hard - you'd need some new data webscripts (repository) to create and navigate the section hierarchy, plus corresponding new code on the web tier (share) to present them, including navigating around.

Mike