I cant believe no one has asked for this Portal Post from Topic!

[Dorfdad]

IM running a new forum on nextgen gaming. VB3.5 RC2 Here is the problem I have and think this would be a GREAT addition to the portal.

I would LOVE the ability in a thread to post a topic as (Moderator or Admin) and one option on the posting menu would be sticky, or Portal News.

This would allow me to have 30 Forum Categories and allow a MOd or admin to post news in ANY forum and make it appear on the portal.

Right now you have to pick a forum for the news to come out of, and if Joe Blow posts in the forum it becomes a POrtal news story. Not what I want

Mabey there is a way That I don't understand?

We are posting news on XBOX, SONY, NINTENDO in different forums and dont want to dedicated a hidden forum for the portal news, because it does not allow users to reply since it would be hidden. I hope Im making this clear please let me know if I am not..

Thanks

Dorfdad

[Brian]

You can already select specific threads to show, it just has to be done through the Admin CP. When you edit your options though the one just above the 'News Forum(s)' option should be 'News Threads'.

[Dorfdad]

Specific Threads yes, I dont think you understand

I want to post a message and say "make frontpgae news" so that it posts that message on the main portal page and when a user clicks on it it takes them to the forum where its hosted.. I want this to happen from different forums.. I also dont want 100 posts showing up on the portal from everyone responding etc..


Understand?

[sean]

umm a little search might help. This will definetly help you, http://www.vbadvanced.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5193&highlight=post+as+news at least I hope.

[Dorfdad]

Sean that link is not for 3.5 RC2 only works on 3.0x

thats why I asked!

[sean]

I know it's for vb3, but I thought maybe if you take a look at the code itself it might help you convert it to 3.5, sorry.

[Daniel1987]

I think what is meant, would be a option under the thread / post, i.e.

under post poll with thread, would be make post news on homepage.

This would be something i would use too,

If this is not what is meant, it would be nice to be included :)

[RaceJunkie]

I have 4 different Forums the news from them go to the front page. I have the permissions set in those forums to only let Staff create new threads but members can reply, to them. Would that help?

[Daniel1987]

its more about not having to have forums with just the news in, to make the forum more user friendly it would make sence to have all articles about one topic in one forum - non would be news, however i wanted to post a thread in this forum but also on the homepage as news, a quick tick box for super mods and admins would be great to do this. if possible.

[lammypie]

http://www.vbadvanced.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5193

hope I haven't miss understood but this thread seems to have the answer you are looking for.