Thanks, glad its not just me that found it confusing. So if you have say a bunch of different categories like rock & roll, classical, etc. each category would need to be edited and set for parent forum?

Thanks Andrew, that seems to do the trick. Although I also had to add "ldm_" in front of delete_category a couple of time too. (Didn't add it to the can_delete_category in local_links_admin.php .. should I?)

One thing, I started to get the title "Latest Links" showing twice at the top of the module. In the manual it says to have "Use Module Shell Template" as "Yes" but if you have this as "No" this behavior goes away.

That's right, if you want the auto threads to go into different forums. Or if you want them all to go into the same forum, just give default_forumid a value. Bear in mind that you'll have to edit any categories that you've already created, as the association is made at the time these are created/edited.

There's a long history to the forum association setting, which I'm gradually trying to unwind in favour of inherited settings and permissions, but it takes time and I don't want to break people's boards in the meantime...

Thanks

No

Yes, I don't routinely check LDM and vba, as I don't use vba

Also, can you remind me how to get the category showing in the module.

Any chance of making this a "Show category a link is from within module" setting on the admin page?

Thanks for all the answers by the way, great support!!

I surprised myself and got the integration going, nothing was showing until I noticed and clicked on the "keep linked forum" in the settings and they are showing now on the main forum as sub forums. Yahoooo!!

Ahh .. finally found it in the old 3.5 thread. You need to add "$linkcatname" to the "links_vba_links" template.

Is this in the manual anywhere?

I think you should put the variable $linkcatname in the template links_vbalinks

I'd prefer not to add vba parameters in the LDM admin, but I'm happy to modify the lmd_hot and ldm_new modules and links_vbalinks template to make the display of template name an option which is controlled by a switch in these modules

Snap. and probably no

Problem ..

I've just moved over to using a Mac (lovely lovely machine) .. and I've found that in both the Safari and Opera browsers the "Control Settings" and "User Group Permissions" tabs in the category edit screen don't work ..

Ahh .. just tried it in IE on a WinXP box and the same thing happens (or doesn't ;))