One site - Many Forums???
 

Hi
Just wondering how you would suggest I achieve this.

Say for example you have one domain that covers the entire range of boating.

Sailors are only interested in their type of sailing or a couple of boat categories.

sailors are put off if all types of sailing and boats are in the one forum as there is a lot of areas that they are not interested in

So, you want a separate group of forums for each type (its a long story why :() like:
- Dingys (General Discussion, for sale, building, etc)
- Speed Boats (General Discussion, for sale, building, etc)
- Cabin Cruisers (General Discussion, for sale, building, etc)
- Ocean Liners (General Discussion, for sale, building, etc)
- etc etc etc (General Discussion, for sale, building, etc)

You want your site to have a home page that contains all general boating news items and then tabs across the page for each separate group of forums.

You also want one single login so a user can access any number of the tabs (boat types) that interest them.

So how would you suggest this be done...is it even possible?

(note also posted on vBulletin.com)

Just create a Public Joinable Usergroup for each of these categories, let the members choose in which groups they are interested and set permissions for each category to only show if a member of this group.

Thanks Marco - that would do it and solve issues like search etc but not the friendliest way but may have to do.

Set the forum display order to 0 to hide it from the homepage, then link to individual forums using a html link to forumdisplay.php?f=XX where XX is the ForumID.

I think this will be useful to you.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=132279

Your members can choose which categories they don't want to see in their UserCP.

:)