More than one forum category

Hi,

D 7.3

CASE A: I noticed, there is only one main category for forums. Any category I create comes under the one main default category.

Is there a way to create more than one main category so that I can have  subcategories in forum just the way this site's forum is?

CASE B:  I accidentally deleted the main/default category an now I can't add it back. There is nothing to allow me create categories again. My forum is now useless. Any help to get it back?

Thanks

Its a little peculiar how to add these things. You need to click the forum module from administration which brings up the main forum page that shows options to add forums AND groups. My understanding is this is the levels order:

GROUPS: Main sections

FORUM: under groups

TOPICS: under forum

POSTS: under topic

You should be able to add them back and create new ones there

 Hi neotekcorp,
Please there is no place to add GROUPS. i have attached screenshot

@remotefinda: hmmmm, interesting. I'd say since you don't have any content in best bet may be to just uninstall and reinstall the forums module. Should rest it to default.

Hope that works for you...

And once you reset you should be able to add new groups/forums/topics/posts as desired.

Hi,

@neotekcorp, Thanks for your advise. Uninstalling and reinstalling forum module helped me to restore forum to default. However, it appears the default does not allow to add GROUP. You can only add forum to the one default GROUP and you can't add another GROUP.

screenshot attached

That shouldn't be the case. At that manage forum page (which you can get to from admin or in the submenus of forum page on front end if you're logged in as an admin) should have the options. Here's a screenshot of ours. Ignore the look of it as our site is heavily customized

Hi neotekcorp, thanks for the feedback. Yes I can see that your forum has that group feature. I checked on the Boonex demo too, they have the group feature. Unfortunately my site doesn't have those things there, "New group" , "compile" language: en" etc. None of those menus appear at the manage forum page.

Now I need a qay to get it added

I figured out the problem. My template was the responsible for that. it had

td.notActive a {
    color: #fff;
}

 and its container's background color too was #fff and thus not making the links visible

I changed it to

.notActive a {
    color: #3a5795 !important;
}

in my custom CSS file and it worked

Thank you, you helped me get there

Glad you were able to figure it out.