Hi Himangi,

I am using easydiscuss for discussions within ES groups. I want to use ED for issues resolution too. So I want to specify a specific category when I setup 'Ask a question' type of menu

Unfortunately, there are no settings available to achieve the conditions that you have stated. However, it is possible to do a workaround. The 'Ask a Question' menu item will not achieve what you want. You should try creating 'Single Category Layout' menu items instead for each category in ED. When you click on 'New Post' in the category page, the composer will auto select the category of the page. Then we can use custom css to disable the clicking action on category selection so that users would not be able to select the category for the new post. Also, you should hide the 'Ask a Question' button in the toolbar as well because that composer auto selects the default category only.
To simplify my explanation:
1.Create 'Single Category Layout' menu items.
2. Disable 'Ask a Question' in toolbar'.
3. Click 'New Post' in the created menu item page.
4. Category of the page will be auto selected in composer page.
5. Custom css will prohibit clicking activity on category selection.
P.S: The custom css will also disable category selection in ES group discussion post.

and also want to specify a category for discussions separately so that none of the groups discussions dont show up in issues category and vise versa.

I do not really understand what you meant here. Do you mean that when you post in the group discussion in ES, you do not want the post to show up in ED pages? If so, that is indeed the default behavior of group discussion posts. It will only show in the Groups page in ED(http://screencast.com/t/UStXzSSu6), not in the Categories, Recent pages etc.

Hope you understand. Let me know if you want the custom css codes to disable category selection or if you have any other questions regarding this. Thanks.

Hi,

Yes, could you please send the custom css code too?

Thanks!

Hi Himangi,
Here is the custom css code to disable clicking events at the category selection dropdown.

.ed-ask .ed-ask__bd .o-row .o-col .form-group label[for=category_id] {

 pointer-events: none !important;

}



.ed-ask .ed-ask__bd .o-row .form-group select[name=category_id] {

 pointer-events: none !important;

}

Hope this helps.

Could you please tell me how do I add custom.css file and where, for ED? I tried adding it at mytemplate/html/com_easydiscuss/css/custom.css also tried mytemplate/html/com_easydiscuss/styles/style.css, along with style.less too but nothing has worked so far. Could you tel me correct path where I need to place css to override original?

Hi Himangi,
This is the directory you should apply the custom css code.
JoomlaFolder\templates\yourCurrentTemplate\html\com_easydiscuss\css\custom.css

If you are still experiencing difficulties, perhaps you can provide us your backend and ftp access in your Site Details so we can help you look into this custom css override issue. Let us know, thanks.