Topic views as homepage

[Mencey Melgar]

Hi there, I want to set as homepage the "topics view" instead of my mixed page, because I have many subcategories and it will help my users to find new content faster if they can see lastest topics directly.

let me know, thanks

[Pedro]

Change Appearance -> Forum Format -> Topics. Is that what you want?

[GregChapman]

I feel such a fool. I have never played with those settings and didn't realise what they meant - and it seems I am not alone!

Can I suggest you place the default option first and re-word those options as:

(•) Open showing the Main Page
Shows a list of sub-forums (if any) followed by the topics on your forum. Note that if your forum has multi-level sub-forums, you only see those sub-forums that are one level below the current level.
( ) Open in Topics View
Show topics from the forum and all sub-forums in a single flat list, so you can browse topics without having to visit sub-forums. This format is only useful when you have sub-forums.

I think it was the single words "Topics" and "Standard" that confused me as it is "Topics View" and "Main Page" that you see when switching views. (My descriptions are slightly shorter too!)

[Pedro]

Good idea.

[Mencey Melgar]

I already tried it, but I didn't see any difference.. maybe is doe to the mixed app format? I dont think so, cause I tried to use "categories" and still now working.

[Pedro]

Could you change it for forum?

[Mencey Melgar]

yep, it worked now, I'll invastigate now on naml how to put mixed style instead of subcategories when you click on "Sub-categories"

thx

[Mencey Melgar]

Humm, am i doing something wrong? because I thought it was quite easy just changing template="view_subapps" to view_mixed_page or view_mixed_html, but no one works.

on subapps_action_link

<override_macro name="subapps_action_link" parameters="text">
    <n.returnable_action_link.>
        <n.page_node.>
            <n.if.has_subapps>
                <then>
                    <div class="[n.action_link_style/]" style="margin-left:.6em">
                        <img src="/images/forum_sm.png" class="image16"/>
                        <n.node_link>
                            <href><n.url template="view_subapps"/></href>
                            <text>
                                <n.default. to="[t]Sub-Forums[/t]"><n.text/></n.default.>
                            </text>
                        </n.node_link>
                    </div>
                </then>
            </n.if.has_subapps>
        </n.page_node.>
    </n.returnable_action_link.>
</override_macro>

[Pedro]

I'm not sure if I understood what you want. It has to be mixed, but not showing the sub apps folders?

[Mencey Melgar]

No, what I want is to set Mixed style when people go to "Sub-apps" link(from topic views)

[GregChapman]

Ah! That's why I forgot about it and decided I didn't understand. Indeed, it doesn't do anything in a Mixed application (with the "Smart Application Pages" set).

Tried a forum at top level and it worked - but then showed "Sub-Forums" when I was expected a "Main Page" link, but also seemed to display all my sub-forums (Forum applications) to something completely different - perhaps as "Categories". Very weird!

Note: I hadn't seen any of the posts that follow the one I am replying to when I wrote this message.

[Pedro]

Edit your view_subapps macro:

<override_macro name="view_subapps">
 <n.call_view_mixed/> 
</override_macro> 

[Mencey Melgar]

Yep, it worked, thanks, just a possible bug: Pinned topics aren't showed as pinned in this forum type, is there a way to add just the information(pinned), just to show, I dont want all my pinned topics at the top of this style, but I want to notice users that those are pinned.

[Mencey Melgar]

[NEGATIVE, I see it now xD]and also, what about priority and assign? I see that this is shown in the subforum where the post is but not in the main "topics view"

But can the assigned user delete this assignement when he finishes the task? I mean, for example, I assign a post to pedro(imagine that he's not admin), pedro checks his mail and after make the corresponding task, can he delete his assign or only the user that made the post can do it?

[Pedro]

To enable this feature you can go to Application -> Extras & Add-ons -> work.
We usually do not delete a task after have done it, we just unassign it.

[Mencey Melgar]

Okay, what about pinned topics?

[Pedro]

I'm not sure, because it is working in my forum. Please, give me your forum address again, I'll see if there is something that is blocking the pinned topics.

[Mencey Melgar]

http://forums.6326.n7.nabble.com/

I want it in my "topics view", it's working on all other subcategories

[Pedro]

Please, go at your macro pin_column and replace each "is_pinned_in_loop" with "is_pinned". Let me know if everything is ok after that.

[Mencey Melgar]

yep, all working fine, thanks :)