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New Post 5/31/2005 8:31 PM
User is offline Jay Mathis
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Shared Forum Instances ? 

Is it possible to have multiple instances of the Forum module all point to the same Forum?

I have a case where I have almost 50 portals that are all related to one topic.  I would like to install a forum that basically shares posts across all the portals.  So each portal would have their own skin but would have the same shared Forum.  I was using YAF in DNN 2.1.2 for this purpose and I could see a use case for something similar in a company intranet setup.

Just curious if anyone has tried this. 

 
New Post 6/1/2005 2:06 PM
User is offline Crispy
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Re: Shared Forum Instances ? 

Jay, contact me via email for details about a 3.1 site that has the 3.1 forums setup to "play" with.

The 3.1 does allow groups to be published within the same portal that are all fed from a "master" portal.  It uses the DNN Add Existing module from the control panel in combination with additional module settings.

 
 
New Post 6/21/2005 10:41 AM
User is offline Jason Koskimaki
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Re: Shared Forum Instances ? 

I would like to see this too. I have a website I started with dnnBB and it would create unique forum instances based on the moduleID. So what I did was changed it so that by default it would display the forum based on moduleID but if you passed in a new module ID parameter (in my case m=xyz), it would use this new one instead.

This is what I would like to see. Where you can pass in the forumID in a query string and it would display that forum instead. I suppose there are security issues here though. In my case, I am sharing forums across portals too.

I love the new DNN forums. I may try to migrate to it sometime down the road I think....

Jason

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New Post 6/21/2005 11:27 AM
User is offline Crispy
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Re: Shared Forum Instances ? 

Yes, you can setup one forum as a master forum.  Then you could use the "Add existing Module" in the control panel to add a copy of the forum onto a new tab/page.  The next step is to hit the module settings of the new forum instance (copy of original) then select which group you want to display.  Doing this will mark it as a child and only show that group.  This will also shut off the footer so the statistics do not show.

I see why people would want to share forums across portals, but sticking with how core dnn does things (remember, this is a core module) I don't see us sharing content of forums across portals because DNN does not share content across portals.  Considering this is very much based on roles I can see this being a complete nightmare to code and maintain.

 
 
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