Is there a way of blocking certain topics or categories from view in the active topics feature? I have a certain Category which I am trying to block from coming into view when clicking on the active topics link, (And on the portal as well)
Although I have yet to experiment with my Active.asp page from a quick glance I think you can save yourself a bit of grief here. Find this line: ' DEM --> if not an admin, all unapproved posts should not be viewed. Modify the If statement below this to include the CAT_ID you are hoping to exclude from the Active Page. It whould work...theoretically. Something like below where the category you are hoping to exclude is equal to 3:
Thanks for your help TstewartFan. I am not administering all posts before approval so surely that wouldn't work? I just need the active.asp file to ignore 1 particular category
Why would you want that? Should that category contents be private? You could configure all forums in the category to have Auth Type set to Allowed Members List (hidden) and only people on the list (and the admins) would get to see it in active topics (of course, only those could also access the forums in the category).
The problem I have is that a few users who want to chat about "utter crap" while the rest of us want to get on with the important stuff. I figured if I could leave out the "utter crap" part from the active topics then the site would have a bit more credibility with the sensible folk. I also need the site to be readble by non members as well as it's a community site.
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Posted - 07 February 2005 : 12:32:45
