Forum descriptions/settings

[Cordilow]

Hello,

It would be very nice if I could clear the descriptions and settings of all my forums (or all child forums to a certain forum) at once, or set them back to the default.  It would also be nice if I could specify what that default was, to set them all to.

That way, I could edit large numbers of forum descriptions more effectively.  For instance, I could go to Creative Works Forum, give all the forums a certain basic description, then go to more specific ones that need altering, such as Fantasy Writing, and give it, and all of its children the same slightly different settings (and description), while doing a somewhat different one for poetry writing and its children, etc.

Anyway, this would be very nice, and very convenient.  It would also be nice if this worked with the html template.  Right now, changing the html template on Creative Works Forum does nothing to its children (no matter how they're set).  I think that's an obscure bug, though, but I'm sure integrating this feature would help.

Anyway, the description is the main thing I'm after.  I suppose the HTML is already supposed to be that way, but it hasn't been working for me for some reason.

It might be better to make the descriptions static (i.e. coded individually into each forum, rather than true inheritance), but just have them be able to be set on a larger scale.  I think this would be easier and less bugs would result (although it would take more memory and processing), but, if the bugs could be worked out, a dynamic approach might be better.

One major thing, though; I would want to have the description of the parent to go by, instead of having it disappear once I select to customize it.  This is one reason I suggested making it static, rather than inherited.  I suppose static isn't the right word, but the word I'm looking for also seems to be an opposite of dynamic, in another fashion.

At least, this is for forums I own.  I suppose it would be good to exclude child forums owned by another person from this.

Anyway, thanks for the help, and letting me suggest.

[Will L <Nabble>]

We can write up some scripting code to help you to make the kind of changes you want, so that you don't have to do it manually by yourself. If you want to do that, please send us an email with the rules for changing your forum name and descriptions.

[Cordilow]

Hmm . . . I do appreciate the offer, but I suppose it would be an ongoing thing, as I would want to make casual edits from time to time.  I suppose I could add a link in the HTML (now that I know how it inherits) to a certain post with the regulations.

How do I get the text/link to show up just above the description?  Or, does it have to be above everything?

Thanks!

[Cordilow]

Actually, one thing I would like very much would be if you would set every single forum of mine, except the Creative Works category, to use the same appearance as the parent forum.

I really have no way of telling which ones I've set to the Nabble default, or added custom appearances (I think there are lots of the first).