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make "view active topics" more useful

#1 Post by vincele »

I want to ask if it's possible to include *all* sub-forums in the "view active topics", as currently the development ones seems forgotten (or intentionally left out) of this useful view.
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I know the "Story" sub-forum is also not showing up for me when I go into "view active topics".
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#3 Post by vincele »

Anyone ?
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#4 Post by Geoff the Medio »

Find whatever phpBB thing needs to be adjusted, then maybe? I have no idea why a forum wouldn't be included or how to include it...

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#5 Post by vincele »

Beware, I don't know anything about phpbb administration...

Is that sufficient for you to know what to check for:

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In ACP, Forums tab, Settings (the green gear icon) make sure "Display active topics" is set to "yes" for all forums.
ACP would be something like "Administrator Control Panel", I guess...
Looks like you've got to check each forum/subforum for that setting...

It's from this post in phpbb support forum...
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#6 Post by Geoff the Medio »

Tried... did that work?

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#7 Post by vincele »

I don't think so, what did you do actually ?
Did you find something wrong ?

BTW, do you know where I can find the phpbb version that is used for this forum, looks like they had bugs wrt that feature in the past...
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#8 Post by vincele »

Here is another post, that may make sense when you're looking in the ACP...
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#9 Post by vincele »

And here is something more interesting :

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That setting is to show Active topics at the bottom of viewforum when you are viewing a category.

The only way to remove a forum from View Active Topics is to disable searching on it through Forum Permissions.
Seems there are two different things called "Active topics"

So, you may give a look at the "searching" forum permissions...
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#10 Post by Geoff the Medio »

There are top level forums and sub-forums that have separate (redundant?) settings... Maybe now?

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#11 Post by vincele »

Yes it looks like it's working, now.
Thanks a lot
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