Support Forum

Advanced Search
Forum Scope


Match



Forum Options



Minimum search word length is 3 characters - maximum search word length is 84 characters
general-topic
Unable to move a forum
Avatar
Chandler Bolt
Member
Free Members
sp_UserOfflineSmall Offline
Mar 6, 2014 - 6:30 pm

Hi,

I'm trying to move a forum to the top of a forum group and no matter what I try the forum does not move at all.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Avatar
Mr Papa
Simi Valley, CA
SP Master
Free Members
sp_UserOfflineSmall Offline
Mar 6, 2014 - 9:40 pm

can you walk us through the steps you are doing and then what occurs after each step?  you are using the forum tools, right?  and no caching plugins on your site for the forum page?

Avatar
Chandler Bolt
Member
Free Members
sp_UserOfflineSmall Offline
Mar 7, 2014 - 12:35 am

I am using the forum admin 

Forums and Groups >> Edit Forum >> Pick the position (before/ after forum xyz) >> Click "Update Forum"

Even after picking the position, none of the forums move.

We're running version 5.4.0

Avatar
Yellow Swordfish
Glinton, England
SP Master
sp_UserOfflineSmall Offline
Mar 7, 2014 - 4:05 am

This is not an area we are doing too well on at the moment which is a bit of an embarrassment! So - he full story.

The methods used to move forums about had been getting creaky for a while and I think really started to break down before we noticed fully. It is,actually, some of the very oldest code in the plugin and I think things had moved on around it at, shall we say, a quicker pace!

So in version 5.4.1 we finally scrapped it and introduced a Group and Forum 'ordering' tool. This is a much easier way of doing it and allows you to drag and drop your Groups and Forums about to get the order you want.

The problem with that however, as we found after it had been released, is that anyone with subforums - well actually probably multiple subforums - were then vulnerable to an ordering corruption. This is not ALL users with subforums but some - depending upon their existing data. As I said above - embarrassing.

In turn this issue has now been corrected and will be a part of the next update to SP.

SO - if you do not use sub-forums then I would suggest upgrading to version 5.4.1 to make use of the new ordering tool. If you DO use subforums I would hold off until 5.4.2.

If neither of those options is possible it is usually possible to get forums to move using the old code but sometimes you need to move others - like moving the ones above tp sit below the one you need to move up. A pain and not ideal but should usually get you there...

andy-signature.png
YELLOW
SWORDFISH
Forum Timezone: Europe/Stockholm
Most Users Ever Online: 1170
Currently Online:
Guest(s) 1
Currently Browsing this Page:
1 Guest(s)
Top Posters:
Mr Papa: 19448
Ike: 2086
Brandon: 864
kvr28: 804
jim: 650
FidoSysop: 577
Conrad_Farlow: 531
fiddlerman: 358
Stefano Prete: 325
Member Stats:
Guest Posters: 620
Members: 17365
Moderators: 0
Admins: 4
Forum Stats:
Groups: 7
Forums: 17
Topics: 10128
Posts: 79626