Make "Forum Link" Show New Posts?

[Reedly]

I'm trying to find a way to make a "Forum Link" show the new posts within the target forum.

It seems as if my board is working correctly, by forwarding the user to the correct forum when clicking the forum link, but there is currently no new post info on the parent forum, and I'm wondering if there is a way to make that visible?

Example: Topic 1 in Forum 1 is linked to Topic 1 in Forum 2. The link is working correctly, and shows the arrow, but while viewing Forum 1, users cannot see if there has been a new post in Forum 2 or not.

Any ideas? I've attached a screenshot in case my description is difficult to understand!!

Thank you!!

[Dismounted]

As the forum is a link - the target could be anywhere, so it will not show any information. For what you want to do, do not set the forum as a link, but rather, set the child forums' parent as this "father" forum.

[Reedly]

Thank you for your help, although I'm a bit confused by your suggested fix. I can understand that since it could be linked to any url, the board can't know what info to put in the new posts section.

However, I may not have described my goal completely/correctly.

I have several states as parent forums. In each state there is a Gear/Wrench forum listed (which will link to the following). There is also a parent forum called Gear/Wrench. Within each state, I'd like the user to be able to click through to the Parent Gear/Wrench forum.

So, in Florida, California, and Indiana -- there is a Gear/Wrench section listed. When a user clicks it, it will actually take them to the "National" section which has the actual Gear/Wrench forum in it. It's just 1 big section, but each state community needs to list it.

My goal is that with each state community, users would be able to see how many posts, and/or new posts are in the Gear/Wrench forum.

I sure hope that helped instead of hurt!!!

As for your suggestion -- I only found a way to set the parent forum of each gear/wrench section, which moves it into that parent forum, no??

Thank you for any further help!!

[tobias_t]

I think at the end of the day vBulletin needs proper "alias forums" rather than the current underdeveloped "link" function. Who uses this to link to anything else than to another forum anyway?

This would be a good subject for a proper mod.

[Dismounted]

Originally Posted by tobias_t

Who uses this to link to anything else than to another forum anyway?

Actually, many people link to things other than a forum, such as a custom page or another part of their site.

[tobias_t]

Originally Posted by Dismounted

Actually, many people link to things other than a forum, such as a custom page or another part of their site.

Fair enough, I can see where that can be useful. I still think that even more people could use proper alias forums

[Reedly]

Is there any way to do this? I simply have one forum that links to another forum with the same name, and would like to show new posts info on both.

It seems like there'd be a way to get that info in more than one place using the database, etc....?

[Dismounted]

It is certainly possible. But will require a modification.

[auto]

Sorry to bring this thread back up, but was there any resolution to this? I am looking for exactly this functionality for 3.8.