I can assign multiple types to a single category, but that doesnt work very well:
all posts are marked as unresolved if support+mark is turned on, the user cant specify they have a support request
all posts show “vote 0”, even when the user can mark a post as up for voting (it should only show 0 votes for the one who opted into this.
When i enable events the category is replaced by a giant calendar, while this may be ok in some occassions a normal discussion group with a small calender sidebar widget would be more helpful so i can mark only a few posts as having a date.
How did you use the solved, topic voting, and event plugin before those became category types? While the process of configuring those plugins for a category has changed I cannot recall that the features have changed.
Did you use those on the categories before too? Or are you just trying them for the first time? I wonder how users indicated that their topic is a support request before.
I am just trying them out, I wanted to Set up a Product idea voting Category. I would like the topic voting and private comment Style however better.. I learned now there is no Category to enforce that. But on the other hand, I could mix them with normal Posts, that’s also good. Just need to Train the users to actually use them (or allow the moderator to turn a post into a idea vote (vote post) post then.. hm.
I think you could use tags for that. Then you enable solutions based on a #question tag and make that also hide the voting on those topics with css, like it’s done on feedback topics here on Meta.
You could combine that with a form-templates that helps with the tag selection.
