Has anyone ever extended a custom module that automatically creates a thread linked to data in their module?

I have a customer who wishes to do this. I agree that it would be of great value to this customer, but am unsure how to interface with the Forum module.

In a nutshell, this is what I need to accomplish:

1) If there is no forum in the group(need to figure out which group) then create a forum => create a thread.

2) If there is a forum in the group(need to figure out which group) then check to see if a thread with the same subject exists (exists ? return url to thread : create new thread and return url)

Alternately, I suppose I could store the ThreadID in my data table, and build the url at page load.

Can anyone help point me in the right direction?

Yeah,

It looks like will be doing it much the same way. I will have to access the forum definitions manually and add one if it doesn't aready exist. Then add a post to the forum using appropriate subject and body content from my customers submit form. I think I can use the DNN PostAdd function to actually add the post ok. So that helps some.

Thanks for the affirmation.

I think we had an issue where there was a bug when we checked to see if the thread had already been created, but otherwise it went pretty smoothly for us.  Are you trying to call the stored procedure directly and it's still not getting into the table, or are you calling through a code API?  You'll probably need to do a careful study of what those are doing to make sure that you know when they might not end up creating a thread.

Hope it helps,