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Originally Posted by tomshawk

If I understand you correctly, I do not think it is possible to make a forum not show unless you click on it

But, I would make a new Usergroup, Go to the forum permissions in the AdminCP, go to the Registered Users Group settings and tell it, that they can not view this forum.

Then promote any users you want to be able to see it, to the new usergroup.

That should get what you want for the most part, though not exactly.

BTW, this is for Gamma, so if your running anything else, it may be a little different

This is for gamma, but it is not a matter of hiding or assigning a usergroup to not view it. You misunderstand what I am trying to do. I have a ton of forums a total of 413. So i have to class and subclass a lot. Doing this was easy in vb2 since i could adjust the templates to show the deeper levels as a forum instead of the category bar.

Now that I am at vb3 gamma and have applied the same/similar template changes it does not work. basically what i need is to make a level 3 or level 4 cat come up looking like a forum, but without listing those forums under it.

It should look something like this

Level 2 cat
--level 3 forum
--level 3 forum
--level 3 cat
----level 4 forum
----level 4 forum
----level 4 cat <has 8 forums that should not show until you click it to get in there.
----level 4 cat <has 8 forums that should not show until you click it to get in there.
----level 4 forum
----level 4 forum


so when i click on level 3 cat it would only show 6 forums (2cats and 4 forums)in there. Currently it is showing all the subforums or in other words it is showing 8 forums under the level 3 cats each.

Problem comes up with going into the acp and going to change the value to 2 for Depth of Forums - Forum Display. It works great until I get to deeper levels. Say I click on level 3 as described above that assigned value shows 2 levels of forums and subforums, which is not what i need. Before it was as simple as a template change now these changes do not work and only cause errors. I put the level as 1 then it messes up the other levels above it.

Suggesting that i tone down as many forums that I have is not a choice.