coldtrick / questions

A Q&A plugin for Elgg (ala Facebook Questions, Quora, Stack Overflow, etc.)

Questions for Elgg

Questions is a plugin for Elgg to provide your network with Q&A functionality analogous to Quora, Stack Overflow, or Facebook Questions

Features

• Ask questions as an individual or to a group.
• Comment on questions + answers (ala StackOverflow)
• Like questions + answers

(C) 2011 Evan Winslow (C) 2015-2024 ColdTrick IT Solutions

questions's Issues

Form for adding answers don't show

This form is disappeared on the question view's page in v5.3 (for non-admins with the default plugin's settings).
After debugging I notice that this code (from previous version) is returns form again:

if (!($container instanceof ElggGroup)) {

  return !questions_limited_to_groups();

}

in function questions_can_ask_question() of lib/functions.php

Add vote like function?

This plugin works similar and has a nice voting option with could be included:
https://github.com/ggouv/elgg-brainstorm

Elgg 3: check move to discussion feature

dashboard question widget more link is not correct if widget is configured on 'all questions'

Strange thing with tabs

Hi @jeabakker I'm testing questions to implement it in production, when I access the general questions there are four different tabs:
Todo =/questions/all ---Ok
Mine=/questions/owner/USER ---OK
Todo=/questions/todo ?? what is it
Experts=/questions/experts ---OK

and in the groups:
Todo =/questions/group/90/all ---OK (90 is the group number)
Todo=/questions/todo ?? what is it again
Group Todo=/questions/todo/90 no is the url where is going /questions/all
Experts=/questions/experts ---OK

and what to move to discussions is not in the edition of the question

Thanks for your work
Jon

"No longer correct" link is not working, the answer remains "correct" and question remains "locked"

Plugins context: elgg v2.3.3 + question plugin v5.2

Settings context: "Close a question when it gets a marked answer" question setting is set to "yes"

Scenario:

• Create a group and enable "questions" in this group
• Create a question
• Add an answer to this question
• Click on the "correct" link to mark the answer as "correct"
  -> The answer is marked as "correct" and the question is locked
• Click on the "No longer correct" link
  -> The answer remains marked as correct and the question remains locked

The answer should be unmarked as "correct" and the question should be unlocked

Elgg 3: check entity tools integration

error when deleting questions

when I delete a question I get the following error (but the question is still deleted):

Fatal error: Call to a member function getGUID() on a non-object in /elggsite/mod/elgg-questions/pages/questions/owner.php on line 27

1 Answers

Please update plugin so either it says "1 Answer" when there is only one, or maybe show the answers like this:

Answers (1)

That would work for all scenarios.

Elgg 3: replace custom queries

search for dbprefix

Elgg 3: check tool option checks

Elgg 3: check search related features

Answer "Embed content" link hidden by tinymce editor

Title: Answer "Embed content" link hidden by tinymce editor

Context: When using "Questions" plugin v2.1 with "extended_tinymce" plugin v4.3.8 on elgg v1.12.11 with "embed" plugin activated

Scenario

• Click on "Add a question" button to display the question creation form => "Embed content" link is displayed correctly
• Fill in the question fields and click on "Submit" button
• Click on the just created question to display question answer form => "Embed content" link is hidden by the tinymce editor

I see 2 ways to fix the issue:

1. in the "questions" plugin by adding a label before the longtext editor (similar to question creation form) or
2. in the "extended tinymce" plugin by adding a style .tinymce {clear: right;} (similar to .cke in "ckeditor" plugin)
   But, maybe there is a 3rd solution in the "embed" plugin ;-)

I created the issue in this repository, because the problem happens only with "questions", I do not reproduce the issue with other elgg content like page, bookmark... Should I still create an issue in the "extended tinymce" repository?

Add more notifications

To question owner when:

• there is a new answer
• an answer is marked correct (by someone else)
• question is moved to a different group
• question is moved to a discussion

"Search in this group" does not search in group question's answers

Context: elgg v2.3.3+questions v5.2

Scenario:

• Create a group
• In this group, create a question with "comala" in the title and details fields
• in this question's page, add an answer containing "comala"
• go to the group profile page
• in the "search in this group" field, enter "comala" and press "go" button
• -> the "comala" question is found but not the "comala" answer
• in the right menu, click "All" link
• -> Both the "comala" question and its "comala" answer are found

May be related to "'Search in this group' does not search in group comments" elgg issue: Elgg/Elgg#11172

Question owner is not notified on answer comments

Issue reproduced on both context:

• elgg v1.12.14 + questions v2.1.2 + content_subscription v3.1
• elgg v2.2.1 + questions v3 + content_subscription v4

Scenario:

• create 3 users (user1, user2 & user3) with both Settings/Notifications/Personal notifications checked (when actions are performed on your content & when comments get posted on content you subscribed to)
• create a "test-group", add the 3 users to the group and enable group notifications for the group users
• user1 adds a group question
  => user2 & user3 are notified of the added question in the group
• user2 adds an answer to user1's question
  => user1 is notified of the answer
• user3 adds a comment on user2's answer
  => user2 is notified of the comment but user1 is NOT

The question owner (user1) should be notified of an answer's comment

answers can have different access as question

Older answers can have different access_id as the question. This should be prevented and fixed

Search result crash if an unreachable container(the question) answer is found

Context: elgg v2.3.3 + question v5.4.1

Scenario:

• In an invisible group
• User A creates a question, with group access level
• User B answers to the question with 'keyword' in the answer
• User B leaves the invisible group
• User B search for 'keyword'
  => a crash happens with the following stack

PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function getDisplayName() on boolean in C:\xampp\htdocs\cmt-1.3\mod\questions\views\default\search\object\answer\entity.php on line 48
PHP Stack trace:
PHP 1. {main}() C:\xampp\htdocs\cmt-1.3\index.php:0
PHP 2. Elgg\Application::index() C:\xampp\htdocs\cmt-1.3\index.php:8
PHP 3. Elgg\Application->run() C:\xampp\htdocs\cmt-1.3\vendor\elgg\elgg\engine\classes\Elgg\Application.php:384
PHP 4. Elgg\Router->route() C:\xampp\htdocs\cmt-1.3\vendor\elgg\elgg\engine\classes\Elgg\Application.php:436
PHP 5. call_user_func:{C:\xampp\htdocs\cmt-1.3\vendor\elgg\elgg\engine\classes\Elgg\Router.php:100}() C:\xampp\htdocs\cmt-1.3\vendor\elgg\elgg\engine\classes\Elgg\Router.php:100
PHP 6. search_page_handler() C:\xampp\htdocs\cmt-1.3\vendor\elgg\elgg\engine\classes\Elgg\Router.php:100
PHP 7. elgg_view_resource() C:\xampp\htdocs\cmt-1.3\mod\search\start.php:62
PHP 8. Elgg\ViewsService->renderView() C:\xampp\htdocs\cmt-1.3\vendor\elgg\elgg\engine\lib\views.php:514
PHP 9. Elgg\ViewsService->renderViewFile() C:\xampp\htdocs\cmt-1.3\vendor\elgg\elgg\engine\classes\Elgg\ViewsService.php:306
PHP 10. include() C:\xampp\htdocs\cmt-1.3\vendor\elgg\elgg\engine\classes\Elgg\ViewsService.php:370
PHP 11. elgg_view() C:\xampp\htdocs\cmt-1.3\mod\search\views\default\resources\search\index.php:194
PHP 12. Elgg\ViewsService->renderView() C:\xampp\htdocs\cmt-1.3\vendor\elgg\elgg\engine\lib\views.php:337
PHP 13. Elgg\ViewsService->renderViewFile() C:\xampp\htdocs\cmt-1.3\vendor\elgg\elgg\engine\classes\Elgg\ViewsService.php:306
PHP 14. include() C:\xampp\htdocs\cmt-1.3\vendor\elgg\elgg\engine\classes\Elgg\ViewsService.php:370
PHP 15. elgg_view() C:\xampp\htdocs\cmt-1.3\mod\search\views\default\search\list.php:113
PHP 16. Elgg\ViewsService->renderView() C:\xampp\htdocs\cmt-1.3\vendor\elgg\elgg\engine\lib\views.php:337
PHP 17. Elgg\ViewsService->renderViewFile() C:\xampp\htdocs\cmt-1.3\vendor\elgg\elgg\engine\classes\Elgg\ViewsService.php:306
PHP 18. include() C:\xampp\htdocs\cmt-1.3\vendor\elgg\elgg\engine\classes\Elgg\ViewsService.php:370

Experts

Is there anyway to give a user the ability to select a particular "expert" they would like to answer their questions. I believe this would be a very good feature, seeing their is a "list experts" feature already present.

Regards,

Elgg 3: restore comments on questions and answers

Answers and answer's comments are not displayed in the group activity

Title: Answers and answer's comments are not displayed in the group activity

Context: elgg v2.3.3 and questions v5.1 activated

Scenario:

• Enable "questions" tool in a group
• Create a question in this group
• Add an answer to this question
• Add a comment to this answer
• Have a look at this group activity
  -> The question is displayed but not the answer and not the answer's comment
• Have a look at the whole site activity
  -> The question, the answer and the answer's comment are displayed

Fatal error (exception) when trying to view the detailed page of a question

Context: elgg v3.2.0 + questions v6.0.4

Scenario:

• Click on "questions" main menu item
• Click on "add a question" button
• Fill in the question form
  • Title: "My question"
  • "Details"
  • "Tag"
  • Comment "ON"
  • who can see this "logged in users"
  • where should this question be liste "My account"
  • validate by clicking on "Submit" button
    =>"My question" is displayed among my other questions
• Click on my question to view the detailed page

Results: Fatal error (Exception)

Expected results: the detailed page of "My question"

Object notifications should not trigger when moving an question to discussion

Maybe create it privately and then update the access.

time in todo notification is wrong

in the daily todo notification the time for the question is a timestamp this should be something readable

Elgg 3: check widget output

Add solution time indicator to full view