#88 External controls for Forum and Threads

[Tony Miller]

I would like to be able to use a pre-packaged class to
create a Forum & Thread from another module
(specifically the Blog module I'm creating).

This is to use the BB for blog discussions rather than
the Comments module (the BB module is much more robust
and supports discussions much better).

[a2z]

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Yes, I would love something like this too.

Here's how it should work:

For a document or blog entry, I should have an option to

-- create new Forum entry with thse same title as the
Document or Blog article. If so, the forum entry should be
automatically created.

or

-- Link to an existing Forum entry.

Once the forum connection is made, the Document or Blog
article should automatically have a 'Discuss this' button.

Actually, as the icing on the cake, it would be great if it
could display the contents of the Document (or Blog article)
as the first post.

BTW, the first post I am talking about should be a hard-copy
of the Doc, it should simply display the whatever the
contents was. This is so that any change in the original
gets reflected in that first post too.

This would be an awesome addition, IMHO.

I wish I could write PHP to help with it.