Adding more types of posts?
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Topic: Adding more types of posts?
Posted By: shol726
Subject: Adding more types of posts?
Date Posted: 26 September 2008 at 3:35pm
| Anyone know where in the code I could go to add more types of posts? Basically I'd like to add more 'sub-categories' besides announcements and the normal area so when choosing the post type I could also have for example, a Polls section (just an example) and then when I post a poll I could choose that post type and it would be in it's own 'polls' area just like announcements. I figure it wouldn't be that hard since announcement's is already there so maybe just copy it's code but change the name and add some values in the db for the added post types, unfortunately my ability of manually parsing asp code isn't that great. Any help on this would be much appreciated. Thanks. |
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Posted By: Putz22
Date Posted: 26 September 2008 at 3:46pm
I sounds to me that in Admin Area you in the Forum Admin Section you can add Sub-categories under each section of the forums.. under Create New forum and then you can put sub-Categories under that.. Here is an Image that I hope help you out..
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Posted By: shol726
Date Posted: 26 September 2008 at 4:23pm
That's not what I had in mind. I am talking about this area : A client I set-up forums for wants to add more of those type, displayed that way, also it wouldn't be efficient to set it up using sub-forums because of the nature of the main forums. the main forums under a specific category will be changing every few months, so it would be a pain to create all sub forums for those forums everytime it changes. It would be much easier to just let the mods of those forums (not me) to set it up how they want simply by choosing from the drop down menu when making a new post (announcements, sticky). |
Posted By: 123Simples
Date Posted: 26 September 2008 at 6:55pm
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If you are aiming to create an example like above then you first create a Category Example: Announcements Then you create a New Forum (see Putz's image above but choose the middle option) and put it within that category. You can create as many forums within any category you want. You do have not to create sub forums  Or are we still missing the point? ------------- http://www.123simples.com/" rel="nofollow - Visit 123 Simples Web Design |
Posted By: shol726
Date Posted: 26 September 2008 at 8:52pm
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Yes. I know how to create categories. I am talking about specifically within a forum. When you post, you can choose announcement (this forum), announcement (all forums), and sticky. I would like to add more choices to that specific drop-down menu. Then when you view the forum, not only would it have announcements, and forum topics like in my picture, but also areas for the other types I add. Both of these suggested ways would work the same functionality wise, but in terms of how the content is displayed, my client wants it exactly as I said. And also it allows the mods to set it up as they see fit instead of me having to manually create each forum within category, or each subforum within a forum for all the forums on my board which would be an administrative nightmare considering how many forums there are and how often they change. |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 27 September 2008 at 9:55am
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This would take allot of work. The database would not need to be changed but you would need to edit many of the files to add in this functionally. I would imagine that it would take around 2 to 3 days to add in this feature properly and test it, and that is someone familiar with the system. Fir yourself you may be able to bodge something a bit quicker but there would not be a quick fix to implement this. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: shol726
Date Posted: 02 October 2008 at 4:46pm
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Thank you for the reply Bruce, I do with work a developer who is quite good with ASP and I am sure would have no problem editing the code, but as you pointed out, he isn't familiar with the program. Would it be too much trouble to ask which files, even if not a complete list, simply off the top of your head need to be edited to achieve this goal? I don't want to be a huge inconvenience, but since you are very familiar with the program it would be appreciated. My client is 100% stuck on having it this way. |