Users requested a feature to convert individual topics into questions that can be marked as solved, allowing for a mix of discussions and Q&A within the same category. Flow proposed a per-category setting to enable topic owners to mark a topic as a question, distinguishing it from standard discussions. While pfaffman suggested using subcategories as a workaround, users like Hifihedgehog and pihentagy expressed a need for a more intuitive solution, specifically wishing to trigger the Solved plugin via a tag similar to the QnA plugin. Although codinghorror initially stated the request would not be implemented and advised using categories, the feature was eventually addressed. lindsey announced the release of the Enable solved tags site setting. This new feature allows administrators to designate specific tags (e.g., “question”) that, when applied to a topic, enable the ability to mark a reply as the solution, effectively converting any topic into a Q&A format without requiring category changes.
Right now, if I’m not mistaken, all topics within a category (with the solved plugin enabled) has the solved plugin enabled are potential questions which could have one post marked as solution.
Our previous forum software had a feature which could mark a topic as question, which would then show some visual information that the topic is a unanswered question and enable the “This reply is the correct” answer button for the original poster (and mods).
That was a great match for your community where only about the half of the topics are discussions and the other half are questions (which hopefully eventually get an answer post).
My feature request is to add an alternative per category setting besides the already existing “Allow topic owner and staff to mark a reply as the solution”, namely “Allow topic owners mark the topic as question (which can have a reply marked as solution/answer)”. Note that it should also be possible to convert a question topic to a non-question/normal topic.
They definitely work together, like PB & J! I just wish the Solved plugin could also be triggered on and off per topic via a tag like your Question Answer plugin already does. Thanks!
This has been addressed with the Enable solved tags site setting. This setting lets you use a tag to treat individual topics as though they were in a Solved category. When that tag is applied to a topic, you can then mark a post within that topic as its solution.
