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Can I remove “Groups” and “Forums” from the public view?

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5:53 pm
28 Feb 2008

Toby

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Greetings! Thanks for your help thus far!

I would like to customize the Simple Forum so visitors to my forum only see existing forum posts and the “Add a New Topic” button. Basically, I want to make the forum simpler by removing the “Group” and “Forum” headings. I searched the Guide but was unable to find anything to support what I want to do. Below is an image mock-up of what I would like my forum to look like.

Can I do this? If so, will you point me in the right direction? Or
might there be a different tool that could better serve this need?
Your thoughts are greatly appreciated!

Toby

7:05 pm
28 Feb 2008

Mr Papa

Moderator

Arizona, USA

posts 1277

Toby,

I am afraid there is no easy way to remove the group and forum headings… you can try reading the guide on hooks, but not sure you can even do it there, though V3 may make that possible… of course, by hacking the core code, this would be possible… (look in sf-page.php for page rendering where it draws the group and forum headings)

you certainly cannot put the new topic icon there because it is directly related to a specific forum that you want the new topic to reside in… If you have a mixture or groups/forums on the page, how would it know where to stick the new topic? (without redesigning how the new topic functionality works)…

I am not sure that I follow why you want to do this either…

Is this for display purposes? There is a template tag for only displaying the most recent posts that would look similar to what you have shown (minus the add topic button)… cant remember the name but something like sf_expanded_posts()… you can find it in sf-tags.php… However, it is template tag code, so it would reside on a non forum page…

7:25 pm
28 Feb 2008

Toby

Guest

Thanks for the quick response, Mr. Papa! You're fantastic!!

<blockquote>I am not sure that I follow why you want to do this either…</blockquote>

We conducted a focus group on the design of our forum and found that the “group” and “forum” categories confused our users (experienced K-12 teachers). So, we are hoping to have a very basic forum with no category differentiation on topic posts (except for the post title) in order to make it easier for our users to post and engage in discussions. Put differently, we would like one group and one forum topic.

One possible solution I thought of would be to send users directly to the forum topic rather than to the main forum page. For example, they could click on “Forum” from our main page and go directly to: http://www.teamupmn.org/forum/?forum=1&page=1

I'll take a look at the sf-page.php file and see if I can hack it.

Thanks again for your response!

Toby

8:09 pm
28 Feb 2008

Yellow Swordfish

Admin

Peterborough, England

posts 4669

That's really your only option and, perhaps, remove the breadcrumb strip. But that's not going to be perfect as there are other places where the front page of the forum is 'returned to'.

8:23 pm
28 Feb 2008

Toby

Guest

Thanks to you as well, Andy!

Toby

8:30 pm
28 Feb 2008

Mr Papa

Moderator

Arizona, USA

posts 1277

just holler if you need help with the sf-page and where to cut out the headers… would be glad to point you to the right spots later tonight when I am home…

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