Forum ID's

[djohn]

How can i change them? In the default installation the forum is created with an id of 2, is there a way to change it to 1, and make all further created forums have serial ID's?
Another question, how can I change the width of my forums? Default is too narrow, imho, i want to expand them a bit. The last post info takes three lines, the column is too narrow, so the info takes up three lines, and looks rather ugly. Is there a way no widen the Last Post column?

[13th_Disciple]

forumID's.. not sure.. think you can edit the DB for that purpose..

forum too narrow.. go to style manager, select all style options, i believe it is, for your style, and down in there somewhere you will see it set at 700 pixels or something.. change it to 100%

last post colum.. style manager, edit templates, forum home templates, FORUMHOME - you will see 4 to 6 lines of code.. one of them contains infor on each of the colums.. the one with something like "$vboptions[lastpost]" ro close to that, change the width of the <td> tag..

i did that lastnight.. i would be very specific, but i am at work, and browsing my forums or adminCP to make changes is kind of a no no.. but coming here ain't.. go figure..

[djohn]

Thanks for the first hint, worked great.
The secont one with the Last Post column - i've found that line in FORUMHOME:

<td class="thead" width="175">$vbphrase[last_post]</td>

but changing the width did not do anything

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by djohn

Thanks for the first hint, worked great.
The secont one with the Last Post column - i've found that line in FORUMHOME:

<td class="thead" width="175">$vbphrase[last_post]</td>

but changing the width did not do anything

You have to change in in about 4 places for it all to take affect.

[djohn]

I found only one place in FORUMHOME with <td class="thead" width="175">$vbphrase[last_post]</td> :surprised:
Are the other 3 in different templates? Which ones?

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by djohn

I found only one place in FORUMHOME with <td class="thead" width="175">$vbphrase[last_post]</td> :surprised:
Are the other 3 in different templates? Which ones?

To change the look for the last post collum you should go to vBulletinTemplates.com as i know several tutorials for that have been released

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by djohn

I found only one place in FORUMHOME with <td class="thead" width="175">$vbphrase[last_post]</td> :surprised:
Are the other 3 in different templates? Which ones?

Here you go.

In the "forumhome_lastpostby" template:
Find:
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<div class="smallfont" align="$stylevar[left]">
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REPLACE it with:
=============================
<div class="smallfont" align="$stylevar[left]" style="width: 240px;">
=============================
In the "forumdisplay" template:
Find:
=============================
<td class="thead" width="175">$vbphrase[last_post]</td>
=============================
REPLACE it with:
=============================
<td class="thead" width="240">$vbphrase[last_post]</td>
=============================
In "forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost" template:
Find:
=============================
<td class="thead" width="175">$vbphrase[last_post]</td>
=============================
REPLACE it with:
=============================
<td class="thead" width="240">$vbphrase[last_post]</td>
=============================
In "forumhome_forumbit_level1_post" template:
Find:
=============================
<td class="alt2" nowrap="nowrap">$forum[lastpostinfo]</td>
=============================
REPLACE it with:
=============================
<td class="alt2" style="width: 240px;" nowrap="nowrap">$forum[lastpostinfo]</td>
=============================
In "forumhome_forumbit_level2_post" template:
Find:
=============================
<td class="alt2" nowrap="nowrap">$forum[lastpostinfo]</td>
=============================
REPLACE it with:
=============================
<td class="alt2" style="width: 240px;" nowrap="nowrap">$forum[lastpostinfo]</td>
=============================