We are currently evaluating porting our old wwwthreads implementation to either UBB.threads or vBulletin. In preparation for the move, we recently split our monolithic forum into a number of subforums. That has left some of our users unhappy that they can't see a single screen display of the most recent threads regardless of which forum they are from.

vBulletin has a Recent Threads display atop the Forum List, which meets this requirement. The Recent Threads I've seen in the UBB.threads 7.0 demo does not, as it is just a list of titles without replies, views, etc. Active Threads also seems to have a unique display format.

What I want is to give the users the choice to view their topics by subforum, or to view all subtopics; either way the display format should be the same. Is this doable?

Thanks

I think theres a hack at UBBDev for what you're wanting; take a look at my Active Topics display.

That is a nice display, but not quite what I am looking for. I am really looking for a display that makes all the forums in a category look like a single forum. Something like the vBulletin display of Recent Threads. Here is an example from the prototype we've brought up of our forum:

[img]I would attach my example here but I can't find the attach button![/img]

You can only attach images to certain forums; such as the test forum.

Currently this would take a modification for this type of display. It does sound like an interesting idea however. As Gizmo stated, attachments are turned on for certain forums here, such as the test forum. I'll turn them on for this forum as well as it's probably a good idea for cases such as this.

Here is the example image:


This allows people who like hierarchical views to treat the subforums individually, and people who just want to see everything to still have a threaded/topics view.

One shortcoming of the vBulletin implementation is you have a fixed # of threads for that view; it really should be a multi-page display like the forum topics display.

-Curt