How can I create sub forums in clubs?

[Lucas Thompson]

How can I create sub forums in clubs.  This would be the ideal structure for me.  If it's not possible currently, what do I need to do to make it a reality immediately?  I mean, would it be possible to hire someone to make it so I can have sub forums in clubs?  Thanks

[Adriano Faria]

You can’t. Each club feature (forum) with have its own tab so if you want 50 forums, you’ll have 50 tabs.

Edited May 21, 2022 by Adriano Faria

[Lucas Thompson]

3 minutes ago, Adriano Faria said:

You can’t. Each club feature (forum) with gave its own tab so if you want 50 forums, you’ll have 50 tabs.

Is this (club sub forums) something that can be achieved with custom coding?

[Lucas Thompson]

With clubs, it looks like the category level is clubs, so couldn't this allow for the club forums to have sub-forums?  

There is a groups Addon for Xenforo called Social Groups for Xenforo that works in a similar way to clubs (see image below).  It let's you use subforums.  If I were to hire a coder, do you think it would be possible for them to add SubForums to clubs on my invision communities?  This would really be a good feature because it would allow for even more discussion and structure within clubs.  And it seems like it shouldn't be too difficult to implement because sub-forums is already a thing in forums to begin with.  Why couldn't there be sub-forums in clubs as well?

[Lucas Thompson]

I found an example of a forum website using the Xenforo Addon I mentioned in my last post.  You can see how it uses sub-forums within the "group" (which is essentially the same thing as an Invision club).  In fact, some of the sub-forums link to more sub-forums.  For example, click on "Gaming" and you'll see 3 more sub-forums.  

Here's the link:  https://gbatemp.net/forums/da-official-digital-cheese-empire.486/

You can see how having sub-forums dramatically expands the forum options for a club.  My question is, is it possible to implement something like this by hiring a custom coder?  Any other constructive suggestions would be very much appreciated.

 

[Marc Stridgen]

There is no way in which to do this at the present time. You would indeed require custom development if you wanted to do something like this. 

[Lucas Thompson]

3 minutes ago, Marc Stridgen said:

There is no way in which to do this at the present time. You would indeed require custom development if you wanted to do something like this. 

Ok thanks.  How can I learn more about "custom development" for invision community software?  Where do I go to find help with custom development?   And, for club sub-forums, would it be an add-on, or a template change, or css, or something else?

[Marc Stridgen]

1 minute ago, Lucas Thompson said:

Ok thanks.  How can I learn more about "custom development" for invision community software?  Where do I go to find help with custom development?   And, for club sub-forums, would it be an add-on, or a template change, or css, or something else?

You would likely need considerable custom coding for this. It wouldnt be a simple template change. In order to develop for the platform you would need coding knowledge. Our guides for developing with our plugin and application system can then be found here

https://invisioncommunity.com/developers/

With regards where you can find help to do this, there are 3rd party developers who advertise their services in our provider area. You can find this in the following location

https://invisioncommunity.com/third-party/providers/