Keeping posts in a subforum
Posted by David (EVDL Admin) on Sep 17, 2015; 8:36pm
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Keeping-posts-in-a-subforum-tp7595871.html
I've searched the forum and haven't found a solution to this, so I hope someone can suggest something.
I've been with Nabble since its very earliest days. My main forum is an email discussion list archive and front-end for folks who prefer a forum approach. It works well for that purpose and the users are mostly happy.
A while back, I added a subforum for news and announcements, creating a group for contributors to the subforum. Viewing that subforum is open to anyone, including unregistered users, but only the small group can post there.
For the main forum, I prefer the traditional topics view, and that's what the users are accustomed to. The Subforums are under a text link to the right of "New Topic." People seem mostly happy with that setup.
However, in the topics view, every post from the subforum is intermixed with the main forum posts! That makes the main forum harder to read and use.
I'd like to keep the subforum posts in the subforum, hidden from the main forum in Topics view.
So far the only way I've found to do that with my current structure is to remove "Anyone" view permission from the subforum. But then (duh!) not anyone can view the subforum posts - and that defeats the subforum's main purpose. So that's out.
I can also switch the main forum format to "Standard" view. That puts the subforum posts behind its folder-icon link pinned to the top of the page. That's not too bad, but switching to Topics view still reveals the subforum posts in the man forum.
Ideally, I'd like to entirely eliminate subforum entries from Topics view.
An alternative would be to make the Main Page (Standard) view permanent, removing the link which switches to Topics view.
At the moment the only other way I can see to accomplish what I want to do is to split off the subforum and make it a separate root forum. That would work, but it removes the subforum further from the main than I would like. I think it would also require the folks who post there to register separately, no?
Another possibility might be to make both the main forum and the subforum equal children of a new parent forum. That retains some connection between the two. However, I'm concerned about what will happen to my current list of registered main forum users if the main forum becomes a subforum of another. Does the new parent forum inherit its child's registered users? Does that matter?
I hope this isn't too confusing. I'm already confused myself!
Am I missing some other more obvious solution here?
Thanks for any ideas you might have.