"Can't Start Discussion"

notakoder

What could be the reasons why Flarum is showing "Can't Start Discussion" in place of "Start a Discussion" in the homepage?

If I am not logged in, it correctly says "Start a Discussion" clicking on which it will ask me to log in. Once logged in, the button says "Can't Start Discussion".

The recent changes made to the forum are installed bazaar, installed mason, then uninstalled mason.

clarkwinkelmann

notakoder I suppose you checked your user has actually the permission to start discussions ? Is it an admin or normal user ?

Another options could include your user being suspended or not yet activated.

Also I think I noticed that if you require say 2 tags in your tags setting, but only 1 tag exists on the forum, then you are not even allowed to open the discussion composer.

notakoder

clarkwinkelmann The user is the admin - the only member. It's a test forum actually and has only me as the member. The permissions page adds up. Admins, mods and members can post a topic/discussion. In fact, I had started few discussions earlier.

Tags settings were off. There are no tags but the settings said that a discussion had to have at least one tag. I have changed both the min and max to 0 in both tag settings. However, I still can't start a discussion.

I am thinking that the culprit would be permissions. Just that the permissions page seems fine. Just need to figure it out.

notakoder

Finally found out the issues, and this could be a bug too. My forum had 0 tags. Even though I had set the minimum number of tags required for both primary and secondary tags to 0, I couldn't start the discussion.

I created a tag now - "General" and the button allows me to start discussions. So I guess you can't start a discussion unless there is at least 1 tag in your forum irrespective of how you have configured your tag settings (in my case it was 0).

I am not sure if there is a particular reason for the mandate that the forum should have at least one tag created.

Out of topic, but still in topic: wouldn't it be a better idea to allow the OP to add the 'solved' tag to their posts?

Silverteal

I just got the same problem.
I can solve it if I create a hidden tag.But I didn't set the tag limit.🙁 I think the problem happened because of some extensions but I don't know which or why.

Silverteal

Silverteal I can solve it if I create a hidden tag.

Anyway, I don't like the solution.

clarkwinkelmann

Silverteal I think the problem happened because of some extensions but I don't know which or why

If that's the case, please try disabling extensions until it works again, that way we will know which one is responsible for the issue.

If it happens on a brand new Flarum install, we should create a GitHub issue unless there is one already.

Does it happen with or without the Tags extension enabled? If you're not using tags at all, you should disable the Tags extension.

proffstudy

Silverteal I run through the same problem and was able to resolve it with the below tag settings:
Go to: your forum URL/admin#/extension/flarum-tags
Settings
Required Number of Primary Tags
Enter the minimum and maximum number of primary tags that may be applied to a discussion.
1 to 1
Required Number of Secondary Tags
Enter the minimum and maximum number of secondary tags that may be applied to a discussion.
0 to 4

FBI

proffstudy
it solve by put setting
Required Number of Primary Tags 1 to 1
and
Required Number of Secondary Tags 0 to whatever....

nice information, this is important and hopefully this discussion still exist 😉