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Site Management => Site Support / Feedback => Topic started by: Lucika on January 05, 2011, 10:57:24 am
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Is it possible to make a child board to a child board? I'd like to make a Missions subforum in the private section but I could not find the way to do so.
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Well, you'll notice that the Silent Threat: Reborn child board has a child board called Phoenix. So it is very much possible. I'd just guess that
mere mortals non-administrators can't really change the forum layout.
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I'd like to make a Missions subforum in the private section but I could not find the way to do so.
:wtf:
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Yes, there is Lucika. I can't help you though as I have no access to board creation. If you have control over your own project forum, however, you are allowed to do so.
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Didn't the whole child-child board thing cause some strange issues that had to be hacked around? Why not just make a second missions child board with the same access group?
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To be honest this sounds like something that is better handled by Mantis anyway. :D
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Why not just make a second missions child board with the same access group?
Good idea :) Where can I do that?
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You can't. You'd need the admins to do that too.
But I still think this is something you should be doing using Mantis rather than a child board. You do know that HLP offers a public or private Mantis to any hosted project that wants one, right?
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There is a thing with SMF that the post count only gets reported upto 2 levels down from the index page. So if you have a board 3 child boards deep from the index page, anything posted in there won't be counted on the index page. You can change the level deepness, but it would more of a strain on the database file to count another level deep, hence why SMF devs limited it to 3 (index + 2 child deep).
Oh, if you don't get what I'm talking about, I'm referring to the topic and post count on the index (main) page.
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There is a thing with SMF that the post count only gets reported upto 2 levels down from the index page. So if you have a board 3 child boards deep from the index page, anything posted in there won't be counted on the index page. You can change the level deepness, but it would more of a strain on the database file to count another level deep, hence why SMF devs limited it to 3 (index + 2 child deep).
Oh, if you don't get what I'm talking about, I'm referring to the topic and post count on the index (main) page.
Do you have a source for this statement? Is this one of the "known issues" with an SMF 2 install?
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This is not an issue with installing SMF 2. You can make a child child child child board if you want...it's just that the forum won't count the posts within it. Counting more than 3 levels is just more intensive on the database file, so the devs limited the count to 3 levels.
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=270325.0
You could just do a test yourself. Make a third child board in one of the main sections and note the post count. Create a few dummy topics and see if it adds to the main post count. If it doesn't, then what I said is true.