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Nick-V Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: 26 October 2002 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 319	Post Options Post Reply Quote Nick-V Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 22 August 2007 at 12:04am
	Unless I misunderstand the requirement I would do it the way WWF is naturally designed to work and would not play with tables or the code at all for maintenance and upgrade reasons. I would keep things simple and simply rethink my requirement to fit the package. With WWF you can have 4 forums each with several sub forums. If you wish to separate access to the 4 forums you can provide a link to each in each of your "sections": http://forums.webwiz.net/forum_topics.asp?FID=24 Other things CAN be done but SHOULD they?

levis Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 02 August 2007 Status: Offline Points: 9	Post Options Post Reply Quote levis Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 22 August 2007 at 12:54am
	I think the easiest way is put 4 db files in a folder, delete tblAuthor table in 3 db files, in these 3 db files, use File--->Get external data--->Link table and browse to tblAuthor table of the remain db file. Did you try this?

Nick-V Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: 26 October 2002 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 319	Post Options Post Reply Quote Nick-V Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 22 August 2007 at 1:05am
	The easiest way is to use the standard software. He said "PS - using access version for now." Maybe not later. With linked tables wouldn't he still have session issues? To me, his stated requirement does not justify having four sets of forum pages to maintain or system/data modifications of any kind. I know its fun to tinker but there's also a time to be pragmatic...it might be possible to avoid unnecessary work. Another way (maybe not as good as the one I suggested previously) to provide separate access to the 4 forums might be to use forum categories like http://forums.webwiz.net/default.asp?C=3 Edited by Nick-V - 22 August 2007 at 1:09am

BigHead Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 13 August 2007 Status: Offline Points: 13	Post Options Post Reply Quote BigHead Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 22 August 2007 at 1:32am
	Hey Nick, I get your point, and may end up doing that, but I think (for now ) having four physically separate forums is a cleaner approach.

BigHead Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 13 August 2007 Status: Offline Points: 13	Post Options Post Reply Quote BigHead Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 22 August 2007 at 1:35am
	Levis, Not sure I follow how that would clear up the session issue, but I'll talk to our primary programmer to see (I've been playing with this myself, instead of involving the person I should be :-)).

BigHead Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 13 August 2007 Status: Offline Points: 13	Post Options Post Reply Quote BigHead Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 22 August 2007 at 1:42am
	What I've done is made sure both forums are a) using the same Author table and b) using the same Session table - anyone know, if there is/are another common table(s) that should be shared?

BigHead Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 13 August 2007 Status: Offline Points: 13	Post Options Post Reply Quote BigHead Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 22 August 2007 at 1:49am
	Crap, nothing's working. Going to take Nick's advice for now and tinker while the forums are live. Has anyone seen the way ESPN organizes their boards? It's a different board for each sport. They aren't all available with one click. I think there's a valid organization reason for that. That's what I'm trying to accomplish. Edited by BigHead - 22 August 2007 at 11:50am

jcecilb Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 17 October 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 14	Post Options Post Reply Quote jcecilb Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 22 August 2007 at 5:16am
	We currently run the look of multiple forums with one member list. Our site uses one WWF database with the different "forums" as categories. With a little modding, I set it up so that based on the URL lowcountrycops.com vs. palmettocops.com it knows which categories to show. If one of my visitors goes to lowcountrycops, he only sees the counties which are in that disctrict of south carolina. The same for peedeecops.com, upstatecops.com and midlandscops.com. However, if he goes to palmettocops.com, he can see the entire state. All I did was mod the SQL statement with a WHERE clause that filtered out the unwanted categories. I hope this makes sense. I have not had much sleep lately.

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