Hi

I've got a module called Groups which I'm writing for a client - a bit like Facebook groups but using DNN - and I want to use the forums as a discussion module within the groups - I want to be able to programmatically create a forum when a Group is approved by a moderator - this will be an empty forum only visible to the members of the group but can't leave the creation to Moderators or Users and need it to be automatic.

I've run SQL Profiler on the addition of a new forum and rather logically, it calls Forum_ForumAdd sproc - which I now do from my module - I also complete the permissions for user -1 and the user who has created the group (using Forum_Permissions_AddForum) .  But the forum fails to appear until after I restart the web server - just need to know what I need to do to get the forum to appear - am I missing a sproc call or something on the website to register it somewhere - and if so how do I do it.  I have downloaded the source for the forums but there's a lot of it and can't find what I need

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
Steve

We've been down this road and suggest you might want to use ActiveForums rather than the DNN Forum Module.  There are a number of operative factors in implementation and user experience, but the main one is that the native forums don't have search in the industry standard sense.  When you do a search for more than one word it requires an exact match of those words contiguously, which is worlds away from true information retrieval such as one expects and finds almost everywhere else.  Imagine searching for

  President Mexico

in Google, and it would only return pages with that exactly, and not, for example:    President of Mexico

If you use ActiveForums they support proper information retrieval search, not just string match.

There are a numbe of other factors weighing in this direction including a big difference in apparent speed, and, importantly, that the native forums implements its own private messaging.  The latter modularizes improperly so that if you use private messaging elsewhere in your site the two private messaging systems won't be integrated!.  This problem is anticipated and avoided in ActiveForums insofar as they integrate cleanly with MyMessages using a simple tag.