Hi @brbjr, So glad you are in the process of upgrading!

In the forums control panel, select the desired forum or forum group; under the "Features" tab, enable HTML and then click on the "ellipsis (...), where you can change the Editor.

Let us know if you need anything else!

Also, depending on how elaborate your existing forums configuration is, you might want to look at the new defaulting we added in 8.2. This lets you set the defaults for the module, and then forum groups can inherit from the module settings, and forums inherit from the group(s). That way, if your settings are same for all forums, you only have to set features up once  personally, my favorite feature.

Thank you. That fixed this issue. The next issue is when viewing a topic "topic view" shows the text as a single paragraph.

Example Description:
line 1

line 2

When I view the topic is shown as: line1 line 2

Do you have database access? If so, can you see how many rows in activeforums_content table?

We might want to create a script to convert content. Do the posts show correctly if you continue to use textbox?

I also seem to remember a function we had in the post loading logic to convert new line to br tags and vice versa. Which sounds like what you probably need. Ideally the module should store both the same and render appropriately.

 

The body is going into the DB as HTML

but is displaying as text on the topic view

 

Thanks for the additional details. I created an issue on Github to look into this. 

https://github.com/DNNCom...tyForums/issues/1359