How to make ads and forums in portal?

Hello, how do go about adding, forums and classified ads in my forums portal that members can post in. Not a widget, but how it would appear in the forum part if I did it in there. Also, is there anyway to make it so people don't have access to the portal while I am working on it?

tylercole wrote:Hello, how do go about adding, forums and classified ads in my forums portal that members can post in. Not a widget, but how it would appear in the forum part if I did it in there. Also, is there anyway to make it so people don't have access to the portal while I am working on it?

set the rights for the portal




you can add a new page to your navigation bar and add the ads forum link so members when clicking on that button, redirect to the ads forum

hmmm... well I wanted to make it so the ads were not in the forum part at all.

you can't do it sorry.

APE wrote:you can't do it sorry.

Nah, That's alright, I will just have to go with skoulikis, method. Do you know if I can make AD sub forums? So, like make a forum, with a bunch of subforums in it, only they are classified ads?

Yes.  You can create a forum then attach ads to that forum.  After you create the forum, just click the green X by the forum you just created.  Then select ads for the first option.

Perfect, now though, for some reason when a post is made in one, in the image spot it says no new posts? I am pretty sure I just need to change what picture appears when a new post is made. How do I do that?

AP > Display > Colors & Pictures > Pics Management
Second Tab
Except there is not an option yet for it.

Ok, and that's fine. I will just have to make it so the icon would make sense if there was or was not a new post. Unfortunate, it doesn't show up on the forum index a new ad was posted in that forum, or in the latest topics area. As long as that is not changable, this is solved and can be locked and archived.

Thanks for the help ladies and gents.