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This is the initial beta release of the questions and answers module, a simple but poweful module that allows frontend users to submit questions to administrators for answering, and display.  Many thanks to the sponsor of this project.

Some of the basic features are:

• Summary and Detail Views of Questions
• Keyword Filtering on Questions
• Pagination in the summary view
• Next/Previous links in the detail view
• Different permissions required to answer and approve a question for frontend display  (though a user can have both permissions).
• Advanced filtering in the admin panel
• Extensive use of smarty
• Light Footprint
• Email notification of new questions

and the list goes on.

Some of the things this module needs right now are:

• Better default templates.  Anybody using this module please submit to me what you have, and any accompanying stylesheets, and I'll implement them.  What I have is pretty sad at the moment, but then, I'm no design guy.
• Search capability.  It has it's own search of sorts, but doesn't interface with the CMS search module, which it should.
• Many translations.  Infact, there's only one (thanks reneh).  So translators, can you please see about attacking this module.  It is egistered in the translation center.

I hope to have the 1.0 final release fully translated, and completely stable.  And I want to do it quickly.  So download it, install it, test it, and send your bug reports in people. 

And.... he prepares for the deluge of questions.

Very nice module ! i`ll test it more this week and I`ll try to write a nice stylesheet for it.

Anyway here is the dutch translation I made. (remove the .txt )

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I've committed a couple of changes with regards to the admin filter in the qeustions module.  It now works a bit better (you can reset the filter to 'all questions'). 

So....  I'm finding bugs faster than you guys are..... come on now!

Signex wrote: Very nice module ! i`ll test it more this week and I`ll try to write a nice stylesheet for it.

Anyway here is the dutch translation I made. (remove the .txt )

It'd be much better if you could sign on to the translation center and commit your translation there.  Because if I just add this file, it'll be overritten by somebody else who does have access to the Translation center.

It would be nice to see the caterogy the question is in, in the admin where all questions are listed, kinda like in the NEWS admin.

  In the summary template.

This gives me a code like "1169636987" instead of the answered date.

The created date look fine though

Looks like a unix time stamp ...

Okay, I've released a second beta.... available here:  http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/frs/?group_id=265

With these changes:

• Fixes to the admin questions filter
• The category param now works properly on the frontend
• When adding a question on the admin side, now remember the last category used
• Fixes to the sortby param.
• The summary template now uses the smarty date_format modifier on all date fields.

Many thanks to reneh and the others.  Please keep up the good work.

And now, I'm really looking for somebody that can provide a reasonably good looking set of default templates.  Something that either uses the stylesheets in CMS by default, or inline styles.  any help would be appreciated. 

Thanks.

Way cool!  Perfect for a FAQ...  I'll have to play with it when I'm done with my current project...

A nice function would be that on the front-end visitors could select a category in the form with a dropdown or something, which will then only display the questions in that category.

To avoid having this module in 'perpetual beta cycle', I'm trying to limit the new features, etc. at least for a while, until this module is tested, and an official version is released.

Besides, the product always takes a different direction from what I thought it would take at the start, so time is always a good thing.  But to avoid loosing all of these valuable suggestions, could you please submit enhancement requests on the forge.

See here:  http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/tracker/?group_id=265
Thanks.