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[ArnyVee]

Originally Posted by Ultimate Teen Forums

Does anyone have a link to a step by step guide on how to do this. I have tried over and over to set a single image for one forum icon and failed every time.

This is what I am doing:

Forum Manager> Staff Room> Edit Forum.

In the field next to this:

Prefix for Forum Status Images (This prefix will be used on status image filenames for a forum, it can only contain A-Z, 0-9, -, _, . and /)

I am putting the following:

/staffroom/forum_link.gif,forum_new.gif,forum_new_lock.gif,fo rum_old.gif,forum_old_lock.gif

I am putting the /staffroom/ as that is where the images are located. /staffroom is inside the statusicon for my theme and the default theme.

Does anyone know what I am doing wrong. This has really puzzled me, maybe I am missing something.

Thank you for any help given.

EDIT: I have noticed on various forums using custom icons for each forum that they are located in all different names for folders and dont even follow the

* forum_link.gif
* forum_new.gif
* forum_new_lock.gif
* forum_old.gif
* forum_old_lock.gif"

naming rule suggested above.

I am running VB 3.7.2 also.

Originally Posted by Dismounted

The prefix should be something like "staffroom_". Then name your images:

staffroom_forum_link.gif
staffroom_forum_new.gif
staffroom_forum_new_lock.gif
staffroom_forum_old.gif
staffroom_forum_old_lock.gif

And place them in the statusicon folder.

Is "staffroom" the name of the particular forum?

Also, if we have a forum with a name with multiple words, do we have to add an underscore between the words or just leave the space as normal?