My site is currently set up so that when I make an announcement, I make it a "global" announcement, so that it appears at the top of each forum. I do this because many of our users are bookmarked directly into a specific forum, and do not hit the main index page at all. So I post a global announcement so they all get a chance to see it, and I set it to expire after 15 days. I then go in and edit the announcement, changing it from global to a specific Announcements forum I have set up. This way the announcements are on file, for anyone who comes along later and wants to check to see what has happened. This system works fairly well for us, except for one thing.
Since the Announcements forum contains only "announcements", versus regular posts, the post count that displays on the index page is always "0". Is there any way, short of copy/paste from the announcement text to a new post, to convert the announcements over to actual threads, or to have the announcements count as posts in the forum? (In the screen shot, you can see that the Announcements forum lists zero posts. There are currently three announcements in that forum, but few of our users realize that.)
Or, alternately, how do other folks manage their announcements? We need them to be global for a while, to make sure everyone sees them, and then we want to archive them.
Since the Announcements forum contains only "announcements", versus regular posts, the post count that displays on the index page is always "0". Is there any way, short of copy/paste from the announcement text to a new post, to convert the announcements over to actual threads, or to have the announcements count as posts in the forum? (In the screen shot, you can see that the Announcements forum lists zero posts. There are currently three announcements in that forum, but few of our users realize that.)
Or, alternately, how do other folks manage their announcements? We need them to be global for a while, to make sure everyone sees them, and then we want to archive them.
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