Topic linking

[Wolfie]

Staff option (not regular members) of course.

Find a topic, decide that you want it available in other areas as well. Click on the options for it, have an option to link topic in another forum. Select forum to add the link to. Now, the other forum links to the same topic.

Somewhat link moving the topic to the other forum, then moving the topic back and leaving a link in that forum to point to the new location of the topic.

ex, topic "Link me" is in Forum Ale, want a link in forum Beer. Could just select to add the link there.

To do that now, you would have to move the topic from forum Ale to forum Beer. Then move the topic from forum Beer to forum Ale, choosing the option to leave a link in forum Beer pointing to the topic.

[Tanax]

Staff option (not regular members) of course.

Find a topic, decide that you want it available in other areas as well. Click on the options for it, have an option to link topic in another forum. Select forum to add the link to. Now, the other forum links to the same topic.

Somewhat link moving the topic to the other forum, then moving the topic back and leaving a link in that forum to point to the new location of the topic.

ex, topic "Link me" is in Forum Ale, want a link in forum Beer. Could just select to add the link there.

To do that now, you would have to move the topic from forum Ale to forum Beer. Then move the topic from forum Beer to forum Ale, choosing the option to leave a link in forum Beer pointing to the topic.

What happens if a member has permissions in forum Beer, but not in forum Ale? Since the thread is actually located in forum Ale and just linked to forum Beer, will it override the default member permissions then?

[Wolfie]

No. It'd just basically be like doing the long way (moving it twice) except that it'd be easier to link the same topic into multiple forums if you want/need to.

[Brett B]

What purpose would that serve?

[Wolfie]

I came up with the idea when reading the idea for making copies of a post/topic. Idea of being able to duplicate posts/threads in different forums seems nice, but the drawback to that is each post/topic is bound to get different replies. It can serve other purposes to, but if you want to put the same topic into different forums, why not link all of them to one topic/post, so all replies go into one 'big pot'.

[Brett B]

I'm just wondering why you would want to do that.

[Wolfie]

Read the 'copy' thread.


Some of the reasons for copying a topic/post could also be said for linking instead.