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I understand this extension has not been maintained since (2015-11-16) - however I have installed it and all seems ok up to the point of creating a topic.

When the submit button is clicked - the next page results in this in the address bar:

http://hitwiki.site/page/Talk:Testing_for_mediawiki#dsafsadfasdf_--_.7E.7E.7E.7E

The part of the url is from (and including the _--_.7E and onwards - is there a fix for this?

Also I note that the topic is also created yet does not show on the main forum page.

As well as this the "this is a minor edit" is not present when creating the topic but is there afterwards.

Any help welcome.

The minor edit doesn't appear when creating a new page. This has been this way since several versions (1.19 at least).

For DPL forum to list pages, those pages need to be in the category specified in the forum tag and namespaces. So when you create pages for the forum need to meet that criteria. Looking at your wiki this doesn't seem to be the case. In the inputbox you should use the "preload" parameter to point to a page that would include the necessary category (either the category directly, or a template that includes it).

Hi Ciencia,

Thanks for the reply - i know this is an outdated extension but i saw a bit of potential in it compared to other also outdated solution.

The solution you;ve suggested regarding the preload paramater - how I do I set that as I see no description of that paramater in the extensions main page.

Thanks.

Parameters of inputbox tag are documented in Extension:InputBox

Configuered input box but still not working..really dont understand parameters at all or how to show a populated lisat of subjects created by creating a new dpl forum article..

You need to create [[Template:Forumheader/HIT Discussion]] (for one of the forums), which should include [[Category:HIT Discussion]]. Then when creating a page with that inputbox, the edit area will have the category on it. You may want to add a HTML comment on it to tell users not to remove it from the edit area