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Hi Marco

Thanks for your reply

Originally Posted by Marco van Herwaarden

First of all there is no such thing as a "forwarded forum" in standard vBulletin.

I was using this term more as a description not as something that has been predefined in vB

Originally Posted by Marco van Herwaarden

Yes you have the option to provide a link instead of creating a forum, but that can be any link, not only a link to a (sub)forum.

In fact to make the link you are still creating a forum. A f=number is assigned, and rolling over the link shows the forum url, however when clicked, a redivert is actioned.

Originally Posted by Marco van Herwaarden

Maybe it would help if you told us what exactly you want to achieve, why use a link instead of a regular forum. Are you linking to a local forum on your board or an external forum?

None of the forums link outside they are all linking to forums that exist on the same website.

Here's an example which describes the type of think that I'm doing:

1. Imagine a forum which has individual forums for schools (eg/ 50 schools)

2. Users bookmark their school forum (or are pushed there after a cookie is set when they make their selection of school initially)

3. Under each there are individual forums for 'school specific chat'

4. But there are also forums that are global (where all schools can leave messages in them)
such as 'National Maths Chat'

So to achieve this I could create a forum for 'National Maths Chat' close to the root. Then within each of the school forums I could have a redirect to this forum. If I could get the stats to appear next to it that would be great. If not no problem.

It may be difficult to follow the above, but simply put there are some community (for all) forums and some school specific forums. However, I want them to appear together under the forum for each school. The reason for this is so that schools can set the homepage or can bookmark 'their school's forum'. Or a cookie can be set to divert users to a choice which has previously been selected.


The above example has used schools to illustrate the issue, but my useage is for something different, but with the same principles outlined above.

It's difficult explaining the details of all this in a post and I'm still not sure if this is the best place to post :erm: