Sub-Forum Question!

[j1mmy]

Okay, I'm going to use vBulletin.com as an example. If you load up the main page of the forum you will see this:

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/

You will notice that the first forum on that page says 'vBulletin Announcements and Discussions'. Now, you will also notice that withing that forum there is a child-forum (vBulletin Announcements) with a sub-forum within it (Jelsoft eBulletin Archives)

If you click on the forum title (vBulletin Announcements and Discussions) it will take you to a page where only that forum is displayed. Immediately you may also notice that the sub-forum (Jelsoft eBulletin Archives) is listed in its own row between vBulletin Announcements and
Announcements Discussions.

My question is that I would like the sub-forum to be displayed in the same way as on the homepage we saw first regardless of the forum titles being clicked. Is this possible?

[peterska2]

Yes, in vBOptions > Forum Listing Display Options > Depth Of SubForums

Change this number until you get the effect that you require. Usually a 1 does the job nicely, but you may wish to go with two or higher depending on how deep you wish to go on the forumhome

[j1mmy]

Strange, doesnt seem to be working. It still lists sub-forums in their own row regardless of what number i set it to.

Basically i dont want the sub-forums to be listed in their own row when the forum title is clicked on. I would like that forum to have the same display of the forumhome.

[peterska2]

Sorry, I misunderstood you the first time.

Increase the forumdisplay and forumhome figures. You will also need to create new templates for forumhome_forumbit_level3_post and forumhome_forumbit_level3_nopost which can be replicas of the level2 versions.

[j1mmy]

Cool, its worked. I set the Forum Home to 2 and Forum Display 1. Everything seems to be okay.

Would i still need to make any replica's? What are they required for?

[peterska2]

no, you only need to make replicas if you incrase the numbers to 3 or more.