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Topic: Sub Forums Order

Posted By: slog
Subject: Sub Forums Order
Date Posted: 06 January 2010 at 1:45pm

Hi, some of my users are asking me to change my sob forums order. They suggested me to use number of post or last post to order my subforums. I know that you define the order at the control panel, but i wonder if there is a way to make it work as the topics, in last post order...

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 06 January 2010 at 1:50pm

There is not. I would image such a scheme of reordering forums in this way would be quite confusing.

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Posted By: slog
Date Posted: 06 January 2010 at 2:19pm

Thanks Bruce, I will try to make a better order by hand in the control panel.

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 06 January 2010 at 3:12pm

Another thing you could try is edit in a text editor the file forum_topics.asp and change thye order by clause for sub forums in the SQL to be order by the last topic date instead.

It would be line 608 changed from:-

"ORDER BY " & strDbTable & "Forum.Forum_Order, " & strDbTable & "Permissions.Forum_ID;"

To:-

"ORDER BY " & strDbTable & "Forum.Last_post_date ASC;"

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Posted By: slog
Date Posted: 06 January 2010 at 8:39pm

Many Thanks Bruce...

I did this change, except for the order, I used DESC instead of ASC, I want the recent ones on the top. ;-)

Worked just fine, I am glad it is a minor change.

Thanks a lot.