Site Wide Forums and Groups

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jlaughlin Posted: Fri, Apr 25 2008 9:56 AM

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I'm looking at implementing a large number of groups (30 or so) each with their own forums.  I'd like each of these forums to exist in their individual groups but to also be pulled up to the main site forums.  This way users would see the posts for 'spongebob' whether they're in the 'spongebob' group or just viewing the site as a whole.

As well, I'd like users to be able to post in either location - whether they've become a member of the group or not.

Should I just be using the site-level forum and deep-linking to it from the group or is there a way to accomplish this in CS2008?

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Ben Tiedt replied on Fri, Apr 25 2008 10:40 AM

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CS2008 does not support this scenairo -- content in groups is only listed within the group.  Public groups' content is displayed in search results and tag in the site, but forum posts will not display in the site-wide forums as well as group forums.

I'd suggest custom-theming your forum groups (based on the group ID/name) or providing custom pages that list the posts in specific forums, blogs, etc (without using the groups feature).