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Deleting a Forum group: what will happen?

GI Giovanna
Giovanna
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Member since May 2015
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Jan 18, 2017 · 6:02 am · Edited

I am thinking that the structure of my forum is too mathematical 😀 so forth less user friendly. I diligently divided all forums in groups but now I am thinking that the users may find this very unreadable. Users want fast and simple. So if I would like to eliminate the groups what will happen? Will I lose the forums underneath? I don’t want to lose them, of course, how do I procede before I make a disaster? Thanks 

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YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
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Jan 18, 2017 · 6:17 am

Yes – deleting a group will take with it all the forums and posts that it is the parent of.

You need to use the re-ordering tool from the ‘forums’ menu to firstly restructure your forums and then, when you have moved everything from a group it will be safe to remove the group itself.

GI Giovanna
Giovanna
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Jan 18, 2017 · 6:43 am

question: a forum must always belong to a group? Can’t I have groupless forums?

GI Giovanna
Giovanna
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Jan 18, 2017 · 5:32 pm

yes, I tried and saw that I could not, thanks anyway!