Issue: No BBcode In Discussion Post?

This is intentional because it is a meta description field. The places it is used only support plaintext (the browser is unable to render HTML in those places).

So there isn't a way to start a discussion with normal bbcode posts? I remember there was a way to do a traditional forum post when starting a topic/discussion.

If you look at the page I see below, it only has the meta description field and no official post field.
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Are you able to reply to an existing discussion? On my board, I do have the option to leave a first comment when I start a discussion. There are a number of things that are considered when determining if someone is allowed to reply, but I can only see one thing that would allow you to start the discussion but not reply to it: Comment Permissions > Can post new comments?

Well I can reply to the discussion I created. So unlike forums, we have to start a discussion with no post, and then reply to it to start the post? Is there a reason for this technique since I miss the forum method where we just create a discussion with an original post.

It seems to be a bug since I tried everything and I can't seem to get the original post to be enabled. I still see it where only the description text field is shown despite comments being enabled for the user.

I seem to be having issues with user permissions as administrator. I can't even create new books or pages anymore. Gives me the error:
Oops! We ran into some problems. You do not have permission to view this page or perform this action.



Here are my settings for admin and it should allow me to do more things.

I got lucky and was able to reproduce the missing comment editor today.

This occurs in areas where the Main Discussion is disabled. In that case, when creating a User-Created discussion, or a discussion based on an admin-defined Topic, the first-post editor is not displayed when initially creating the discussion.

Fixed in the next release. In src/addons/vw/vw/_core/controller/ui/discussion/vw.php, find:
AFTER it, add:
As for the inability to create new books or areas, have you been tweaking permissions for any other usergroups that you might be a part of? You might be part of a usergroup where some permissions are set to Never.

Is this only happening when trying to write a new chapter (rather than creating a page and adding it to the book later)? It is possible there is a bug and it is letting you choose a "Save to" area that doesn't allow chapters. How many chapters deep is the book already? There are technical limitations on the maximum depth of the outermost book. Regardless of depth, how many books would you say are inside that outermost book? There are technical limitations on the maximum number of books in the same tree (you would be limited to regular pages as chapters thereafter).

You should try to create an access mask for your user in the area you're having trouble (AdminCP > Wiki > Permissions > User access masks) and see what the default values are for your user.

However, it is possible that you are seeing a no-permission message due to an action that is simply not allowed by the software, rather than due to how the permissions are set.