thablewprnt 09-16-2006, 05:56 PM When I create a new forum I base it of course, off what that particular sections is gonna be about. My problem is, when I create a new forum I want it to show up as a forum on the main page, but once you click the main forum on the main page, on the inside of that forum, it displays only the sub forums.
For example. Let's say I have a forum called "games"
Right now if I click that forum it displays the main forum, and the sub forums.
A section to start new topics, and the sub-forums at the top of the page.
I want it to be where, when you click on the "games" forum it displays the various sub-forums with no option to create a new topic in the main forum. You may only select a sub-forum, and start a topic in that particular forum.
Example of current forum
Main forum: Games
sub-forum: Game Review
sub-forum: Game Preview
sub-forum: Game downloads
sub-forum: Ect.
sub-forum: Ect.
New topic:
Topic:
Topic:
Example of what I want
Main forum: Games
sub-forum: Game Review
sub-forum: Game Preview
sub-forum: Game downloads
sub-forum: Ect.
sub-forum: Ect.
(Excuse the lame examples, use your imagination)
Peggy 09-16-2006, 08:38 PM no can do, that I know of
Hell³ 09-16-2006, 08:58 PM Maybe with a conditional in the forumdisplay template. I think I saw something like that in another forum, if I find it I'll post it.
thablewprnt 09-16-2006, 11:21 PM Thanks guys, and yes please post any info you can find Hell3.
Big Dan 09-17-2006, 05:44 AM Why not just not allow posting in the "games" forum but allow it in the subforum? That'd be the easiest way.
friscogal 09-17-2006, 10:03 AM i think you want to make the forum a "category".
in admincp-->forums & managers--> main forum you want no posts allowed-->posting options-->act as forum, click "no". (will act as a category if "no".)
I would like to know how to do this too. I know it exists because it's setup like that over at .org. I just don't know how to do it.
Elsie 09-17-2006, 11:49 AM i agree with friscogal..... that certainly sounds like it's what people mean.
Hell³ 09-17-2006, 01:48 PM Why not just not allow posting in the "games" forum but allow it in the subforum? That'd be the easiest way.Yes that's the easiest way, but it shows the "there are no posts in this forum" message anyway.
friscogal 09-17-2006, 01:58 PM I would like to know how to do this too. I know it exists because it's setup like that over at .org. I just don't know how to do it.
tanya, do you mean like the set up on my forum...check it out...i have a mexico forum but you can only post in cabo forum, cancun forum, etc. i made "mexico" part a category only...to sort of organize the forum
Hell³ 09-17-2006, 03:59 PM Ok, found the info making some changes in my test forum, this is an example for only one forum, the forum called "Games" on your example:
First, do as Danny told, go to the ACP>>Forums and Moderators>>Forum Manager>>Find the "Games" forum and click on the name, that will take you to the forum options.
Check the forum id at the top on the right of the forum name, make a note of it, you'll use it later.
Scroll down and find the Posting Options, one of them will be the "Forum is open?" and set it to No. Save and we'll move to the template edit.
Now, in your forumdisplay template find:
<if condition="$show['threadslist']">
Replace with
<if condition="$show['threadslist'] AND $GLOBALS[forumid] != X">
Where X is the forum id you made a note earlier.
Save and go check your "Games" forum ;)
Edit:
Now, if you want to do this on more than one forum, follow the same instructions for each forum options and then in the template edit just change it to:
<if condition="$show['threadslist'] AND !in_array($GLOBALS[forumid], array(X,Y,Z))">
Where X,Y,Z will be the forum id's of each forum you want this to apply.
tanya, do you mean like the set up on my forum...check it out...i have a mexico forum but you can only post in cabo forum, cancun forum, etc. i made "mexico" part a category only...to sort of organize the forum
Mine is setup like yours, but what I understand from the 1st post...he wants a member not to be able to post into the forum where the subforums are. For example...if you log into my board and you click on the "Getting Started" forum under the category "Wedding Planning: Part II", I have all of my wedding planning elements in there. What I wanted to do was not have members posting new threads in "Getting Started", but to use of the the element forums. I hope I explained that right.
Anyhow, "Getting Started" has too many threads to get rid of the "New Thread" button so I left it alone. I can't remember if I changed permission on "Getting Started" as to where no new threads can be made and enabled that feature in the element forums before. I'm thinking I did and it didn't work out for me so I left it as is.
thablewprnt 09-17-2006, 11:03 PM Thanks for all the feed back quys. Hell3 I'm going to try that edit right now and I'll update you all, as soon as I try it out. In case anyone is wondering why I'm going through all this trouble, it's quite simple. If I have a section called "games" and inside that forum there's a bunch of sub-forums to keep everything organized. What sense would it make to have a option to create a new topic, when most likely that topic is gonna fall under one of the sub forum categories?
And yes I could use the option to not have any new post in the main forum, but as mentioned that would also leave that message as well, which looks very tacky, anyway I hope this does it, and I'll be back...:p
Hell³ 09-18-2006, 01:55 AM Well, it worked for me at least. I have a Features forum where I have my GARS subforums and I have it setup like your Games forum is, no need for posting in the Features forum, and no need for the "no threads" message neither.
I also know categories work like this by default, but I like to have my Features forum inside the General category, it helps to keep my forumhome look more organized, and if I setup the Features as a category inside another category, the resulting display in the forumhome it's not what I want.
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