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 Topic: Active Topics - display order
Posted: 21 December 2004 at 10:44pm |
Hi,
On a forum I admin with others, the 'active topics' page works fine - except that when we change the display order of the forums/subforums in the admin panel it mucks up the chronological order of the 'active topics' page.
Is there a solution or is there something we've missed? 
Apologies if this has been addressed before - I ran a search here on active topics and skimmed all 43 topics that came up, but I didn't really see anything exactly the same.
Thanks in advance...
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Posted: 22 December 2004 at 4:36am |
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Are you using a mod or something? as the present version of web wiz forums available to the public does not support subforums.
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Posted: 22 December 2004 at 4:42am |
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Sorry - perhaps I'm not using the correct terminology. To the best of my knowledge, no mods are installed. When I say 'subforum', I mean the various areas of our forum (categories etc).
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Posted: 22 December 2004 at 4:50am |
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If you change the order of the forums from the admin area it should change the order correctly on the active topics page.
Check that your forum orders are correct and they all have different numbers.
Also, reupload the file in case the file is corrupted.
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Posted: 22 December 2004 at 5:32am |
Oh I see - thanks for the info.
So what you are saying is that the order set in the admin area is supposed to change the order on the active topics page  .
Is there any way of disabling this feature so that the active topics page is unaffected? - We are used to having the posts listed chronologically (regardless of the order on the default.asp page  ) so that the last post is always at the top of the page.
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Posted: 22 December 2004 at 7:49am |
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The active topics page lists all foums that have got new posts in them,
with the forums in the order you have set in the admin area.
The latest post for each forum is placed at the top of the listing for that forum in date order.
The only way to change this is to modify the file active_topics.asp.
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Posted: 22 December 2004 at 7:58am |
OK, that should be alright...
I'm not really familiar with asp but the file seems well laid out and commented .
How would I/one go about modifying the active_topics.asp? Would it be difficult? Any advice, pointers or suggestions? Where (in the file) would be the best place to start?
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Posted: 22 December 2004 at 9:59am |
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I haven't looked at the file for about 8 months, but from what I
remeber, the order should be set in the SQL query to the database.
If you are using MS SQL Server you may need to change the stored procedures on the MS SQL Server database.
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