Can't view the subforums on the opening page

[dovidshmuel]

I'm trying to start a forum on my site. I followed the instructions in the tutorial, renamed the main forum, and created 3 subforums in the main forum. Even though the tutorial shows a way to preview the forum, there doesn't seem to be a way in the current version of phpBB (which is different than the screens in the tutorial). So when I try to enter the forum by the URL www.mysite.com/forum, it just shows the main forum and not the subforums.
I tried to make the subforums into categories, but the opening page just showed the first category.
How do I get all the subcategories to show on the initial page that a viewer sees.
Thanks for the help in advance.

[dovidshmuel]

Re: Can't view the subforums on the opening page

I was able to get one of three subforums listed under the "Main Forum" by changing the permissions in the General forum settings section, by clicking "yes" for "List subforum in parent-forum’s legend." I did the same for the other two subforums, but only the first subforum shows up.

Any suggestions?

[Karen Mac]

Re: Can't view the subforums on the opening page

You are going in the right direction.. you just need to keep tweaking your permissions and parent directories etc. Its impossible to tell without logging in and looking at what you have done and set up.

Karen

[dovidshmuel]

Re: Can't view the subforums on the opening page

I got the subforums to be listed by changing the "do not copy permissions" choice, to make all the subforums copy the permissions from the first subforum. Even though I had manually made the permissions of all the subforums the same, it only listed them once I copied the permissions.

[dovidshmuel]

Re: Can't view the subforums on the opening page

Further experience shows that it doesn't matter which subforum I copy the permissions from. What does matter is that I have to BOTH copy the permissions from one of the subforums AND check "yes" in the "List subforum in parent-forum’s legend" choice. Just copying the permissions doesn't get the subforum listed under the main forum in the opening page.

[zuriatman]

Re: Can't view the subforums on the opening page

A sub-forum is a forum under the main forum so you have to goto your main forum and select the sub-forum before you can view the subforum itself.

[dovidshmuel]

Re: Can't view the subforums on the opening page

The problem was the subforums weren't being listed under the main forum until I made the above changes in the permissions.

[zuriatman]

Re: Can't view the subforums on the opening page

Do not copy any permissions is what I did for my forum, and I dont have any problems.