How to make existing forums into a sub forum?

[ywang98]

In my forum, I have a category called Archive. Currently, 4 forums were created under that category. They have many posts already.

How do I make these 4 forums into sub forums under the Archive category?

To make them collapsable, I read somewhere here that I have to change the forum display depth settings?

Thank you.

[Floris]

Admin Control Panel > Forums & Moderators > Forum Manager > Modify the forum you want to make as a sub forum, on the page that loads with all its options, select from parent the category you want to put it below.

[ywang98]

Do I have to make the top category a forum too before this can be done?

Currently, the Archive category isn't a forum (Act as Forum under Posting Option is set to NO). All of the real forums below it has the parent set to Archive.

I guess I am a bit confused.

[ywang98]

I see a few other people having similar questions. Is there a tutorial or a thread that someone can refer?

Did a search, but the explanations weren't too understandable.

Thanks.

[Steve Machol]

Not sure what the confusion is. Floris explained how to do this. What are you doing exactly and what is not working?

[ywang98]

I see what Floris explained, but when I looked at the admincp, it already shows that these existing forums are child forums for Archive. However, when I change the forum display depth, all of the other forums that I have on the board also collapsed to only show the top category. I only want one category to do that.

My confusion is that I see the "add subform" options in the the forum manager, but these forums were imported from phpBB. When I choose "add subforum", it is as if I wanted to add a new forum, but I don't. I want to change the subforms to attach to the top category, but according to the subforums options themselves, they are already attached to the top category. So, that is why I am confused. I hope that I didn't confuse you.

Thanks.

[Steve Machol]

What's the URL to your forums and what are you trying to do exactly? Also what forum depth settings do you have now?

[Floris]

The confusion is probably with a category being a forum still.

Go through the forum options of the forum you want to appear as a category.

One of the options is the question 'if this a forum: no (if no, behaves as category)'.

[ywang98]

My forum is private, so it won't show without being logged in. If you want, I can give you admin access to check it out.

The forum depth setting is:
Depth of Forums - Forum Home: 2
Depth of Forums - Forum Display: 2
Depth of Sub-Forums: 0

The Archive is NOT a forum (and accordingly set to NO for being a forum), just a category.

Right now, the hierarchy is in the attachment (I hope that you can see it).

I would like to make this Archive category either collapse and expand, or like what this guy wants in his post (see his attachment):

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=147977

Thanks.

[Colin F]

The way you have it set up currently will allow users to collapse forums using the button.

If you only want forums to show up as textlinks (like [ATTACH]15393[/ATTACH]), you'll have to set the Depth of Forums - Forum Home: 2 setting to 1.
This will make the same happen to any other categories you have though, which I don't think is what you want.

[ywang98]

When I set Forums - Forum Home: 2 setting to 1 as you described, all of the forums colapsed. I cannot even open them up

Yes, I would like to have the textlinks as you've shown in your attachment, but as you can see, it didn't happen for me.

And yes, I would only want one category to do that.

Thank you for your help.

[Colin F]

You can't do that without modifying the code, sorry.

You can ask for help with modifying the code at vbulletin.org

[ywang98]

Thank you for your reply.

At least now I know that this is not possible by default.

[ywang98]

I saw my answer today with this post:

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=148673

I needed to make another forum under the category. That did the trick.