[Lucika]

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.

[Jeff Vader]

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.

[Fury]

I'd like to make a Missions subforum in the private section but I could not find the way to do so.

[Unknown Target]

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.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

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?

[karajorma]

To be honest this sounds like something that is better handled by Mantis anyway.

[Lucika]

Why not just make a second missions child board with the same access group?

Good idea Where can I do that?

[karajorma]

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?

[MachManX]

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.

[Goober5000]

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?

[MachManX]

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.