I'm running into a problem here. I updated the template. I imported the product. I ran the query and set all forums as excludable. I even confirmed in the DB that the 'excludable' field for each forum was set to '1'.

When I go to the options in the user cp, I see the excludable section at the bottom, but none of the forums are showing up.

Any ideas?

Try saving at least one forum via admincp forum manager. It rebuilds the forum cache.

Perfect! Thanks.

I would strongly recommend changing the type of field in database from varchar(255) to mediumtext.
Some users are clicking through every forum they don't want to see instead of selecting only categories and they end up with huge list of forumids which simply do not fit in varchar(255).

Nevermind this post...

anyone know what's up with 3.5.4? I can't see it in my user options either. Just installed for the 1st time today

Please read the first post. Thanks.

Hi again. OK I am slow, blond and apparently blind. I don't see what you are referring to in the 1st post other than it was created for 3.5.4. Sooo any idea why I can't see it in my memberoptions?

Please read the introduction section of the first post.

Can't seem to get this working properly on VB 3.6.4

SOME of the categories/forums show up, but not all of them
I ran that sql query in the first post, but that hasn't helped

Any suggestions?