Overview
Answers enables the implementation of a Question & Answer system in a Drupal site. Users can post questions and other users can answer them. To see it at work (based on the most recent 7.x-4.x-dev version), head over to its Demo site and have a look at the Questions there.
New version now available for testing (7.x-4.0-rc3)
Please note: this version is not yet compatible with prior versions.
The most important changes include:
- Replaces the references module with entityreference (references was at one point likely to be deprecated)
- Integrates supporting modules into this module (Best Answer, etc...)
- Improves the interface including better layout and putting comment forms and new answers form on question pages
- Improves code quality
- Automated Tests
Summary of Functionality
What the module does:
- Users can ask new questions
- Directly ('node/add/answers-question')
- Users can review questions
- All questions: 'questions'
- Unanswered questions: unanswered'
- When viewing lists of questions, users can sort by title, post date, and number of answers
- Users can post answers to questions
- When displaying a question, the system shows the answers to that question.
For more detail and configuration options, see the file "answers.readme.txt" in the module.
Supporting Modules
There are some supporting modules:
- Best Answer: Enables question authors to select a best answer. Depending on a setting, this will lock the question
- Answers Voting: Enables users to vote answers and questions up/down
- Answers Userpoints: Adds user reputations to Answers (using integration with UserPoints) following a point system like that on StackExchange
- Expire Questions: Automatically expire questions after a set amount of time has past
- Relevant Answers: Provide blocks which can be placed on pages to capture and display questions specific to each page
- Answers Taxonomy: Adds tags to questions.
These modules relate to the 7.x-3.x version, and have been transformed to sub-modules of the Answers module in the 7.x-4.x version.
Module Dependencies
Drupal 7
Project information
- Module categories: Content Editing Experience, User Engagement
- 201 sites report using this module
- Created by amanuel on , updated
- Stable releases for this project are covered by the security advisory policy.
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Releases
Development version: 7.x-4.x-dev updated 12 Feb 2020 at 03:34 UTC
Coding Standards
Development version: 7.x-3.x-dev updated 12 Feb 2020 at 01:55 UTC