How do I - setup a Forum

Hello,

I want Forum to show in my top menu.  I'm using ver 3.5 with the DefaultClean and Forums shows in the footer and Forums is enabled.

I looked at TopMenu.cshtml ...

            if (Model.ForumEnabled)
            {
                <li><a href="@Url.RouteUrl("Boards")">@T("Forum.Forums")</a></li>
            }
        
            <li><a href="@Url.RouteUrl("ContactUs")">@T("ContactUs")</a></li>
            <li><a href="@Url.RouteUrl("Boards")">@T("Forum.Forums")</a></li>

I added the above line but Forums still doesn't show (cleared the cache).

What am I missing on this?

You also have to add some forum groups AND forums by going to admin area > content management > forums

Thanks for the quick reply!

I did add topics to the Forum and it shows in the Admin

When I click on Forums in the footer all looks good but I can't get the Forums to appear in the top menu.  From the Footer menu the Forums works like I expect it too.

What am I missing?

Ohh, I see now. By default additional items are displayed in the top menu only when you don't have any categories. You can customize this logic in the \Views\Catalog\TopMenu.cshtml file. You can move

        

@if (Model.ForumEnabled)
        {
            <li><a href="@Url.RouteUrl("Boards")">@T("Forum.Forums")</a></li>
        }

outside of the following code:

@if (rootCategories.Count == 0 && Model.Topics.Count == 0)
    {
        //no categories or topis to display? in this case let's diplay some default menu items (should we?)
        <li><a href="@Url.RouteUrl("HomePage")">@T("HomePage")</a></li>
        if (Model.NewProductsEnabled)
        {
            <li><a href="@Url.RouteUrl("NewProducts")">@T("Products.NewProducts")</a>
            </li>
        }
        <li><a href="@Url.RouteUrl("ProductSearch")">@T("Search")</a></li>
        <li><a href="@Url.RouteUrl("CustomerInfo")">@T("Account.MyAccount")</a></li>
        if (Model.BlogEnabled)
        {
            <li><a href="@Url.RouteUrl("Blog")">@T("Blog")</a></li>
        }
        if (Model.ForumEnabled)
        {
            <li><a href="@Url.RouteUrl("Boards")">@T("Forum.Forums")</a></li>
        }
        <li><a href="@Url.RouteUrl("ContactUs")">@T("ContactUs")</a></li>
    }

Awesome!!

Thanks Andrei, I'll try this

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