Re: Parent name change

Posted by GregChapman on Feb 16, 2017; 8:27pm
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Parent-name-change-tp7597756p7597758.html

I need to check that we have the terminology right. Take another look at my forum at:
http://www.seahawk17.org.uk/forum.php
There you see a "Mixed" application with the title "SeaHawk Forum".

There are a number of sub-forums of the "SeaHawk Forum". These are:

Announcements and FAQs
Introduce Yourself
Gallery
My Boat
For Sale
Help Desk
General Discussion
Forum Issues

The parent for each of these is "SeaHawk Forum". You can confirm this by clicking on any of the sub-forum headings. You will see the "breadcrumb menu" at the top left of the forum show:

SeaHawk Forum > xxxx (where xxxx is the name of the sub-forum you selected.)

Now take a look the sub-forum "the Boat" (which happens to be a "Category" application). This has a number of further sub-forums within it. e.g:

Osprey
Falcon
English Rose
Piccolo ... and more

Click on any of those and you go deeper into the structure. (These are all "Forum" applications) The breadcrumb menu will now show:
SeaHawk Forum > My Boat > xxxx (where xxxx is the name of the sub-forum you selected.)

At this level the parent of the areas "Osprey", "Falcon", "English Rose", "Piccolo" and so on is "My Boat", not "SeaHawk Forum".

The general concept is that of multiple generations in a family. The top level of a forum being the parent of any immediate sub-forums. These sub-forums are the "children" of the parent forum. If there are children of the of the child sub-forums they'll be the grand-children of the parent forum. The parent of a grand-child is the the child.

I'd certainly suggest that you change the title of your "Topics" sub-forum, to indicate the nature of the topics you expect to find within it. To do this go into the sub-forum concerned and select:

Options > Application > Edit name & description