How easy would it be to have multiple forums in a single site? I have a job coming up that has a main "forum" area, but also has a separate section for a particular audience group (teenagers in this instance) which requires a completely separate forum of its own.
I could link through to a sub-section of the main forum, but they really want that specific forum to stay within the separate section.
I know in uForum, it was just a matter of adding another "Forum" node in the content tree wherever you wanted another forum to start...
Hmm I haven't tried it, although as long as you nested the 'second' forum at a different level to the first (Just so the main categories show) it 'should' just work... Only things you would need to change off the top of my head would be
Login & Register pages - Probably have to create new ones for the second forum
Search - Have to customise it to only show results from the specific forum
If you do try and do it let me know and I'll try and help as much as I can :)
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In exchange I'll have one of those spare developers :P
In fact thinking about this, you might have an issue if you wanted different settings per forum (i.e. Enable email subscriptions on one and not the other) - As the 'Settings' is bascially a cached version of the forum node.
apologies for opening this can of worms back up after over a year, but I am attempting to do something similar and am running into problems. I have two sites running under one Umbraco 4.7.2 installation. Both share common SQL data, VB.net usercontrols and Umbraco members (otherwise I would have had separate installs). I am using hostnames to differentiate the sites. Both sites require separate forums, but when I do so, both sites show a combined list of master categories. I have put the forum for the second site under a different level to the first, renamed it to "discuss" rather than "forum" but it still shows master categories from both sites.
Site One ----Forum -------Cat One -------Cat Two
Site Two ----Talk --------Discuss (Forum node) ------------Cat Three ------------Cat Four
Both "Forum" and "Discuss" node pages show all four "Cat" nodes.
I have the same probleme. I need a second and third forum in one umbraco instance. I had two root nodes, one for german language and one for english language. My customer will have two seperate forums, one for english and one for german and in german root node he will have an other forum for a special custom member group.
Multiple forums per site
Hi Lee
How easy would it be to have multiple forums in a single site? I have a job coming up that has a main "forum" area, but also has a separate section for a particular audience group (teenagers in this instance) which requires a completely separate forum of its own.
I could link through to a sub-section of the main forum, but they really want that specific forum to stay within the separate section.
I know in uForum, it was just a matter of adding another "Forum" node in the content tree wherever you wanted another forum to start...
Just a thought.
Cheers,
Mike
Hmm I haven't tried it, although as long as you nested the 'second' forum at a different level to the first (Just so the main categories show) it 'should' just work... Only things you would need to change off the top of my head would be
In fact thinking about this, you might have an issue if you wanted different settings per forum (i.e. Enable email subscriptions on one and not the other) - As the 'Settings' is bascially a cached version of the forum node.
Hi Mike & Lee
apologies for opening this can of worms back up after over a year, but I am attempting to do something similar and am running into problems. I have two sites running under one Umbraco 4.7.2 installation. Both share common SQL data, VB.net usercontrols and Umbraco members (otherwise I would have had separate installs). I am using hostnames to differentiate the sites. Both sites require separate forums, but when I do so, both sites show a combined list of master categories. I have put the forum for the second site under a different level to the first, renamed it to "discuss" rather than "forum" but it still shows master categories from both sites.
Site One
----Forum
-------Cat One
-------Cat Two
Site Two
----Talk
--------Discuss (Forum node)
------------Cat Three
------------Cat Four
Both "Forum" and "Discuss" node pages show all four "Cat" nodes.
Any clues?
many thanks
Rory
Hi,
I have the same probleme. I need a second and third forum in one umbraco instance. I had two root nodes, one for german language and one for english language. My customer will have two seperate forums, one for english and one for german and in german root node he will have an other forum for a special custom member group.
Is this possible? Any ideas?
Best regards
Sören
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