WM - Forum link is not active for the Active challenges

[coderhacker]

Expected behavior

Forum link is available for the Active challenges, this should be active.

Please note: This is working on the Production environment. please see attached screenshot

Actual behavior

The Forum link is not active for the Active challenges for all track

Steps to reproduce the problem

• Create the challenge in the development track
• Active the challenge
• see forum link

Screenshot/screencast

Attach or link a resource.

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Environment

• OS: Windows
• Browser (w/version): All browser
• User role (client, copilot or manager): copilot
• Account used:

[jmgasper]

@coderhacker - Can you post a sample challenge ID or two please?

[lakshmiathreya]

cc @rootelement

[coderhacker]

https://challenges.topcoder-dev.com/projects/16573/challenges/452751f3-1418-496b-92e0-5e142a902b7f/view
https://challenges.topcoder-dev.com/projects/16573/challenges/0acac439-40b6-4b84-9358-3cdbe20925c8/view

[coderhacker]

@jmgasper I have added the above challenges ID

[jmgasper]

@coderhacker - Are those launched under a group? I see a strange error when I try to pull details on the challenge:

{
    "message": "You don't have access to this group!"
}

[coderhacker]

Yes there is Work Manager App. which have forum link. currently this forum link is inactive

@jmgasper

[jmgasper]

@coderhacker - I'm thinking the group may be an issue. Is the group setup the same in prod?

[coderhacker]

Nope, we are using for prod this group

Groups: Hide Challenges

[jmgasper]

What's the prod challenge that uses that group?

[coderhacker]

Here is ID for prod a5b69350-82d6-4955-807a-3b47b5678b70
@jmgasper

[jmgasper]

@coderhacker - Ok, thanks. That helps rule out the groups idea I had.

For 452751f3-1418-496b-92e0-5e142a902b7f, I can see that the discussions object just doesn't have the url parameter added to it, in the data from the /v5/challenges endpoint. This url parameter is added by the forum processor after the group is created.

The group on Vanilla actually did get created just fine (https://vanilla.topcoder-dev.com/categories/452751f3-1418-496b-92e0-5e142a902b7f), it's just not linked back to the challenge metadata in the Topcoder API for some reason.

I'd like to test with a new challenge that you create, while I'm watching the logs. That will help me see what happens / what errors pop up. Feel free to reach out in Slack so we can coordinate that.

    "discussions": [
        {
            "provider": "vanilla",
            "name": "test Discussion",
            "id": "e833f42a-3cab-40c8-b218-4d1cc280020f",
            "type": "challenge"
        }
    ],

[lakshmiathreya]

cc @sdgun