I have this same forum software running on a server, and I have most of it customized, but one last thing is irking me. When you start a topic, you have Topic and Body fields. But if you create Categories inside your Forum admin, it’ll show them in a select list.
Here’s my example: http://takezer0.com/forum/start-topic.html
Unfortunately it looks like you have to select a sub-category. How can I make it so it’ll let the user select top-level categories so I don’t have to create sub-categories?
Thanks!
Reported on Movable Type 4.2
Sorry, Clifton -- the template set is designed to use top-level categories for grouping forums together. You can do what you want, but it will require some significant customizations to the template set. The "Entry Form" template is one of those, where it currently outputs the top-level category with an 'optgroup' tag, which is an un-selectable item. Something like going from THIS (as it is now):
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Other changes may be necessary to fix navigation so those top-level categories are linked to their archive pages, etc. It may be easier to just create a "General" top-level category that has all your topic categories under that.
Thanks, Brad. That makes sense. I appreciate the response.