FabioPaz Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 Hello, there. I'm trying to make my forum index a topic stream, with new topics with a little description, exactly like when you see a category here. Is it possible to make this without mods? Maybe I'm missing a already existing block. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nathan Explosion Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FabioPaz Posted August 4, 2021 Author Share Posted August 4, 2021 Just now, Nathan Explosion said: Thank you, but when I say "forum index" (as I wrote in bold) is the homepage, not a category of the forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nathan Explosion Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 Just now, FabioPaz said: Thank you, but when I say "forum index" (as I wrote in bold) is the homepage, not a category of the forum. OK - well, I take 'forum index' as being the index page of a forum. So - just to confirm - you want to make your homepage appear the same as if you were displaying a forum? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FabioPaz Posted August 4, 2021 Author Share Posted August 4, 2021 Just now, Nathan Explosion said: OK - well, I take 'forum index' as being the index page of a forum. So - just to confirm - you want to make your homepage appear the same as if you were displaying a forum? Exactly. Very like the "topic feed" block, but like you showed in the print (the category view). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nathan Explosion Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 How about this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FabioPaz Posted August 4, 2021 Author Share Posted August 4, 2021 Just now, Nathan Explosion said: How about this? Very cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nathan Explosion Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 (edited) It's an activity stream - create one in the ACP, set it as the 'Default' stream. To then use it as your homepage, you would have to set 'System' as your default site application, and 'Content Discovery' as the default controller Edited August 4, 2021 by Nathan Explosion Image removed FabioPaz and Clover13 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FabioPaz Posted August 4, 2021 Author Share Posted August 4, 2021 Thank you very much. I think you pasted an additional image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clover13 Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 2 hours ago, Nathan Explosion said: It's an activity stream - create one in the ACP, set it as the 'Default' stream. To then use it as your homepage, you would have to set 'System' as your default site application, and 'Content Discovery' as the default controller I do exactly this on my site, whereas I have a custom activity stream of Recent Topics defined. @Nathan Explosion's solution is only partial in that it will load All Activity (default activity stream). You still need to figure out how to load your specific custom activity stream. I had to add a custom FURL configuration in the ACP to point my default landing page (i.e. base site url) to the custom stream, however, in the 4.6+ upgrade, the processing of this configuration became inconsistent whereas the default All Activity stream was sometimes loaded and confusing users. To workaround (and not a desired one), I had to create a custom endpoint, i.e. https://mysite.com/recent-topics and use .htaccess to redirect my main landing page to the custom stream I wanted. I'm still not clear on the inconsistency in the IPS implementation, we couldn't resolve it via support tickets and they effectively instructed me to configure a custom endpoint and use htaccess to control loading it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nathan Explosion Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 (edited) 20 hours ago, Clover13 said: @Nathan Explosion's solution is only partial in that it will load All Activity (default activity stream). So it flipping does - bum!! *tinkers* Edited August 5, 2021 by Nathan Explosion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clover13 Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 4 hours ago, Nathan Explosion said: So it flipping does - bum!! *tinkers* Ahhh, what's THAT mod? 🙂 I basically had to give up my site's BASE URL as a landing page because of the nuances with custom FURLs in IPS and the Activity Stream module, and the order of precedence in how requests were handled (I'm guessing as either it's that or I couldn't write the htaccess rewrites correctly to avoid a conflict). Would be nice to get that back with an override. Are you going to put that (NE) Override "All Activity" as default stream in the Marketplace? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nathan Explosion Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 Nah, I am going to throw it on here as a freebie once I've finished testing it. Clover13 and FabioPaz 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clover13 Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 (edited) 28 minutes ago, Nathan Explosion said: Nah, I am going to throw it on here as a freebie once I've finished testing it. Awesome! Nice to see others like @FabioPaz having this use case for their site too. It's been the focal point (landing page) of my site for many years (even before being on IPS). I know Pages has the ability to embed a topic stream but it's not the same look and feel as the Activity Stream (more robust). Hopefully IPS can integrate your mod into a future version to allow for this level of customization for those who want to have a custom Activity Stream as their default landing page. Thanks for tinkering and finding a workaround! Edited August 5, 2021 by Clover13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FabioPaz Posted August 5, 2021 Author Share Posted August 5, 2021 1 minute ago, Clover13 said: Awesome! Nice to see others like @FabioPaz having this use case for their site too. It's been the focal point (landing page) of my site for many years (even before being on IPS). I know Pages has the ability to embed a topic stream but it's not the same look and feel as the Activity Stream (more robust). Hopefully IPS can integrate your mod into a future version to allow for this level of customization for those who want to have a custom Activity Stream as their default landing page. Thanks for tinkering and finding a workaround! Mine too. I don't mean to be "toxic" (towards the forum software), but it's irrelevant to land on the forum homepage with a giant list of categories, not a stream of new content. I know it's different, but it's close to entering a blog/site and the menu is covering all the homepage (not the content per se). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nathan Explosion Posted August 6, 2021 Share Posted August 6, 2021 (edited) Give this a try - tested on IPS 4.6 only, but no reason why it wouldn't work on 4.5 or possibly earlier. (NE) Override 'All Activity' as default stream 1.0.0.xml Edited August 6, 2021 by Nathan Explosion Afrodude, FabioPaz and Clover13 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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