SID-01378: Can I nest forums and/or create forums in separate webs?

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	5.1.0	Perl version:	ActivePerl 5.14
Category:	CategoryAddOns	Server OS:	Windows server 2003	Last update:	14 years ago

I am new to Twiki and trying to set up an internal Twiki for our Sales Engineering team. I have installed the TWikiDotNetForumAppAddOn. I see that I can nest webs, so I assume I can nest forums within forums, right? It's just not clear how I would create a forum under an existing web. For example, I want to create a separate web for products and one for general industry knowledge. Within Products, I want to create a separate WEB (not a topic) for each product portfolio. Then, within the portfolio web, I would create a topic for each product. I would like to create a similar structure in my forums - a Product Forum with sub forums for each product portfolio and then separate forums for each product.

Can I just copy the Forum.text and Forum.txt,v files to other directories (renaming them, of course), to add a forum (or forums) to various webs?

Thanks,

Bill

-- BillRoche - 2012-01-16

Discussion and Answer

Adding a hierarchy to the forum app is certainly possible, but there is some work involved. You can however easily copy the application logic of the forum app to each product portfolio web.

First, duplicate a virgin Forum web to a new _productPortfolio template web, which can be used as a template when creating a new product portfolio web. Customize that template web as needed.

-- PeterThoeny - 2012-01-16

When you say 'duplicate a virgin Forum Web', is it as simple as copying the two Forum files (.txt and .txt,v) into another Web directory? Or is there more involved in doing this?

And can I put multiple forum Webs under the same Twiki web.

Finally, do the Forum webs need to be named anything in particular to get picked up by the menu system? Or does their mere existence add them to the top menu bar drop downs?

Thank you, in advance,

Bill

-- BillRoche - 2012-01-27

No, you need to duplicate the whole Forum web (from the add-on) to a new _productPortfolio template web. That means all topics with all attachments. You can create new webs based on this template web; you can name new webs anyway you want as long as it is a valid web name (capital letter followed by alpha-numeric characters).

You can nest webs if you enable that in configure.

-- PeterThoeny - 2012-01-27

Thank you!

-- BillRoche - 2012-01-27

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