I just upgraded from 3.2 to 3.3 and in my case I just get folder ICONs showing the two Forums yet none of the groups show up underneath to choose.  I just downlodaed and installed the new version of the Forums 3.20.08. Also, If I manually perform an insert into the database for either Forum_TrackedWhatsNew or Forum_TrackedForums then all of the groups underneath the Forum folder ICON do show up with a check. Checking either or both of the two checkboxes next to the Folder ICONs don't seem to do anything!

Could this be some how related? Or is some new management feature preventing this?

Thanks for the timely response. Then I'm confused and maybe I confused you in the process.

After, I log into my test user acount and then go to the forums to see that profile -- all I see in the trees for Tracking Forums, Whats New Tracking, Moderated Forums, and Default Forum is just the two group names and NO forums names.

Now, after I perform one insert statement into Forum_TrackingForums Table for one Forum then all of the forums names show up for that group. The other group just shows the name with NO forums below it.

I think I have the roles right? The forum module has "Member Current" role as view/edit where as the page has "Member Current" set to just view. For all of the forums in the "Official Announcements" group have "Board Members" role is assigned "Authorized Edit Roles". "Is Role Restricted?" is unchecked and "Is Moderated?" is also unchedked (however this should not matter -- just FYI).

So what this was doing prior to the upgrade was to allow users with "Member Current" to see all posts in the forums under the "Official Announcements" group and ONLY users with "Board Members" role could make posts. However, this allowed every to track the fourms as they want. If this is all goodness... Then what am I missing?

If I have followed the code right - I get to "PopulateTree" which builds all of the Trees -- then follow more code until I get to "AddForums" called by "Start Tree". Inside "AddForums" the "forumController" calls the SP "forum_forumgetall" which works correctly when I exec in SQL. So I think you end up looking at the following code:

For Each Forum As Forum.ForumInfo In forums
   If Forum.IsActive And Forum.IsAuthorized Then
      forumNode = AddNode(Forum.Name, "F", Forum.ForumID.ToString, _
                           eImageType.Forum, objNode.TreeNodes)
   End If
Next

At this point I can't seem to find my problem in the ForumInfo or IsActive or IsAuthorized -- which is the spot I think the issue is.... Unless the role setup is just plan wrong!