News Options - News Forum ID

[Millionaire]

I have many forums on my board.

I want most of my forums to show up as news.

Is there a way to
- set news to all forums?
- or set by listing the forums to exclude?

These two options are more useful for a board with many forums.


Setting by listing all forums to include is ok for a board with lesser forums but it's not user friendly if you have many forums.

[Fargo]

you can specify what forums your news is pulled from via the CMPS AdminCP.

Under vBa CMPS section, go to Default Settings and locate your News Forum ID under News Forum header. Enter the forum id for which forum you want news pulled from. Multiple forums are separated by a comma (,)

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[Millionaire]

I know and I am already doing that.

But I am suggesting for options to
- set news to all forums.
- or, list forums to exclude.

These will be more useful.

[Millionaire]

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[mholtum]

As far as I know this :

you can specify what forums your news is pulled from via the CMPS AdminCP.

Under vBa CMPS section, go to Default Settings and locate your News Forum ID under News Forum header. Enter the forum id for which forum you want news pulled from. Multiple forums are separated by a comma (,)
Is the only way to do it.

[Brian]

In your modules/news.php file look for:

WHERE thread.forumid IN

Replace that with:

WHERE thread.forumid NOT IN

And that will allow you to exclude forums instead. If you have a lot of threads/posts though you may start seeing a performance hit.

[Millionaire]

The current method is good for most boards.

But it's not user friendly for those with many forums.

Imagine having to enter over 50 forum ids.

This is why i suggest additional options for user to choose.

- set news to all forums.
- list forums to exclude.