Section link to a Forum URL

[vb.help]

Hi,

I would like to click on a Section link and point to a Forum URL ... How do i accomplish this ? Please help !!!

Thanks.

[Eric]

What do you mean by section? A forum category? Or do you mean section, as in the CMS?

[XrayHead]

I've been looking for a fix for this as well and cant believe the lack of interest. All the questions on vbulletin.com say come here and all the questions on here seem to fall dead?

Just encase there is some confusion to what I'm looking for its the follwoing;

CMS
Section Widget
Section 1 (normal section content when clicked)
Section 2 (normal section content when clicked)
Section 3 (Link to URL on forum when clicked)

[Dead Eddie]

Three options that are immediately obvious to me:

1. As a one-off, you could use hook vbcms_section_populate_end to examine the node id and, if it's one you want to point to the forum, redirect the user to where you want them to go.

2. Extend the section to include a page to redirect to. It looks like this would require some file edits.

3. Create a new content type that includes a page to link to. Rewrite the section widget (or create a new widget) to display both content types.

[XrayHead]

Hey Eddie, not 100% sure on the options you suggest but I will look into all 3!

Many thanks for the reply!

Xray