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Fixing the display position of forum groups

KM karen maskall
karen maskall
Member

I had the most important forums group in the lead position but when a post was added into the secondary or least important forum group the latter took the lead place.

 

I went to forums/manage groups and forums/edit a group/display positions…..

There are two positions being available both identical        current position OR current position.

I need to change the position of one group/forum to be lower or behind the most important group forum.

Any ideas please?

thanks

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YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
Member

Oh dear. Sorry about this. I know there is something wrong in there but have been unable to find the exact conditions that cause the sequence to get skewed. I believe it has something to do with old deletes of groups and/or forums but have been unable to replicate so far.

Quickest and easiest way is if you have access to your database (say via phpMyAdmin) and are happy to change a couple of bits of simple data.

If not then what I would try it create a new forum group and when you define it set it to be in the number one position. That should force a reordering and you should then be able to order the genuine groups and then delete the new, unwanted one. I believe that would work.