[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Ophelia

Good day Andrew!

Here is what I needed to do today.

I created a new sub-category in LDM and clicked the "Create a sub forum" for that LDM category.

The only problem was that where I wanted it .. it was set up like this...

Forum Category
- Sub Category
-- Sub-Sub Category

I needed the new forum placed inside an existing sub-category in the forums. Is this an option that can be added at some time or would that make it way to confusing?

I think I understand you - if so, the situation is basically as Slave has explained.

Am I right in the following:

You want to 'autocreate' forums/subforums which have the same structure as your categories/subcategories? So if you create this structure in LDM:

category 1
-- subcategory 2
------ subsubcategory 3

you want to create forums as follows:

forum 1 linked to category 1
-- subforum 2 linked to subcategory 2
------ subsubforum 3 linked to subsubcategory 3

Currently, when LDM creates a linked subforum, it turns off the "Show this Forum and Child Forums on the Forum Jump Menu" option for this subforum. So you don't the chance to select it as the parent the next time round (or to use it to give the access permissions for other categories/entries). Actually, this is by chance, not design - I think it's one of the changes in vbulletin that I missed in going from vb3.5 to 3.6.

If you go into vb/admin/forums and switch on "Show this Forum and Child Forums on the Forum Jump Menu" for the new linked forum, you should be ok.

Even though vBulletin will allow this nested structure to exist, because the subforums are 'links', it may be difficult for the user to drill down on the forumdisplay pages to get past the first linked subforum. I played around with the vb forumlistings display options - Depth of Sub-Forums - one can get an indefinite depth of linked subforums to show up in the forumdisplay, but only as a straight list.

I am changing this behaviour in v2.2.8 so that the 'autocreated' forums appear by default on the forumselect menus.