Re: Please can anyone help

Posted by GregChapman on Aug 22, 2015; 6:50am
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Please-can-anyone-help-tp7595773p7595776.html

Hi,

Thanks.  That makes things much clearer.

wildlife-geek wrote

, the problem l am having now is l cant seem to find how to have 5 pinned topic options, as they keep coming up as messages when l try to add a topic,

Ah! More confusion about terminology.

What you see on Nabble Support are not pinned topics but pinned "sub-forums".  Sub-forums have folder icons and will hold any number of "topics". A topic is a "message" and any replies to that message.

To create a sub-forum go to.:
Options > Structure > Create new Sub-forum

A sub-forum can itself have sub-forums. These are created in the same way.

Once you have constructed your Nabble forum you will need to embed it in your site. You do that via:
Options > Embedding options

I suspect your users will find it very confusing to have two different types of forum each requiring separate logins on a single site. I would have thought it better to use the "User permissions" feature of Nabble to control access and visibility of different parts of your forum to different groups of users. In fact you should find that your main host's forum offers a similar feature.

If you really do need two forums then I would recommend that you abandon the forum provided by the host of your main site and make both your forums based on Nabble, given that you can't have both your forums hosted by your web site host.

Perhaps you need to explain why you think you need two forums as it may be that you are unaware of the concepts of "User groups" and "User permissions" as a way of controlling what type of user (e.g. "Anyone", " Registered", "Members" and "Administrators") can view different areas of a forum (i.e. sub-forums) and whether they have permission to view, post and reply in any of them.