By drewla on

Hi All

Drupal newbie here. Very impressed with Drupal and the open-source community in general.

I've just migrated a vBulletin forum over to Drupal using the excellent vdtodrupal module (http://drupal.org/project/vbtodrupal).

It's gone pretty well, though there are some things I'm having trouble with. Despite searching, I've not come up with answers to these questions:

1) I have about 20 sub-forums in total, but 5 of these I want to hide i.e. I don't want to delete them but I just want to archive them and make them invisible to the end-user. I just can't see a way of achieving this.

2) I see that Drupal has a curious way of organising my forum posts, translating replies to particular posts as a separate type, and indenting them under the post being replied to, instead of just adding it to the end of the thread. This might be logical, but it's likely to be too much of a culture shock to my users. Can this be avoided?

Thanks for any pointers.

Regards

Drew

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vm commented

investigate the forum_access.module

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michelle
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For #2, look at the flatcomments module and also change the comment settings to flat/expanded. There's a section on setting up core in the Advanced Forum docs that may help you even if you're not using AF.

Michelle