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Buckeye2B
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 Posted July 9th, 2008 04:50 PM IP   
Am looking to display different links in different forum categories, but thus far, haven't been able to follow where I can make this happen in the html. I am fairly html savvy, but obviously not enough to make this connection. Anyone want to try to push me in the right direction. I asked this question in the support forum, but to no avail.
For example, our forum is about high school sports, but where we break it into league football discussion, it would be great to be able to link to a site that lists all high school schedules in our state. I have link for this on the main page, but would like to keep it on the HS football pages only since we are dealing with a few different leagues. It's the same with college football, as we are mostly Big 10 fans, that I have links on the main page for B10 football pages, but it would be nice to be able to contain these links on the college football category, and the same with college basketball, and so on.
Anyone willing to try to school an old guy??? 
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bunk
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Posted July 9th, 2008 05:56 PM IP
You "could" just create catagories, then forums within each seperated as you describe above, then just post yours links in the appropriate places, maybee "Sticky" them at the top of the forum ???
Maybee i'm not understanding exactly what you are trying to do ????
Have a nice day, Bunk 
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bunk
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Posted July 9th, 2008 06:15 PM IP
You could take a script like this:
<a href="Enter you URL Link Here"target="_blank">
<font color="white">Destination for link to display here</font></a></div>
Then alter it like this:
<a href="http://www.ohiostatebuckeyes.com/"target="_blank">
<font color="white">Buckeye's Home page</font></a></div>
And do something like make a list of all the ones you wish to have, then insert them into your header / footer, and just click the desired one depending on which forum / thread you may be in at the time, as they will appear on all pages this way.........
Sorry if i'm still off base with this
Have a nice day, Bunk
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Buckeye2B
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Posted July 9th, 2008 10:28 PM IP
No- but you're close. My hope is that once you click on a category within the main forum, that when that category opens - here is the page--->
http://excoboard.com/exco/index.php?boardid=11401
that I can get links to open for just that page. I have been able to insert links into the header and footer with ease, but not able to track the script that opens a category. For example, when you open the main page above, you see NOSF and links in the footer, but if you click on a category like 'College Football" and the page opens with all the threads, I would like to be able to insert specific college football links at the beginning of that categorical page (like those that are in the footer), just under the normal header and advertisement, but before the listing of the threads.
When you go back to the NOL football category, I would like to be able to insert different links at the beginning of that categorical page... so in essence, each category might have it's own seperate links that open when the categorical page opens and you can see the links just above (or below) the actual threads that are listed in on that page...
Hope this helps to clarify and if you can help, that would be great.
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bunk
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Posted July 10th, 2008 06:25 AM IP
Yea, I looked back at your first post about this, then went to your board..... Looks like you probably know as much if not more than I do
I then tried some things on a test board, and the best I could come up with was inserting a script like above ^^^ in forum description. I do think I understand what you are wanting to do know, but I couldn't figure it out either. Anything you do to the forum template for example, is gonna show in all forums that you enter, not differ from one to another. I tried inserting it within the "forum name" space provided, but i'm guessing that has a limited amout of charectors allowed....
Maybee Sage or one of the better coders here will see this and come up with a solution...... Good luck with it
Have a nice day, Bunk
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Buckeye2B
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Posted July 10th, 2008 11:37 PM IP
Well, I picked up on the forum/category names in Java on another thread, but I think that in the Java itself, I am going to have to make some sort of variable definitions that might call for a script to load based on category name. Thanks for looking at it anyway.... Always better to ask before blowing up your board....
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bunk
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Posted July 11th, 2008 07:51 AM IP
You can / should create a test board for testing these kinda things, they are free just as your board is. Just go to http://excoboard.com/ and create a new board. I simply name mine Test Board. I like to use the same template as the one I use on my operating board, so any trials I do will in fact work the same exact way.
Be sure to create yourself a couple or three admin accts, as it's real common to kick yourself out of your test board..... This way you can still get to your CP
Another good practice is to "back up" all of your templates on word docs now, then you can simply paste them back into the templates as needed..........
Have a nice day, Bunk
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Sage
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Posted July 11th, 2008 10:32 PM IP
Are you looking for a way to display different links within different forums? I'm a bit confused, but I hope i can help a little.
- More Scripts and Mods at indexOf('ExCo')
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Buckeye2B
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Posted July 12th, 2008 11:14 PM IP
Yes, but technically Exco refers to each as categories. For example, our board is Northern Ohio Sports Forum. Then we have a category called NOL Sports with a football, basketball, track/CC, etc. forums. I would like to be able to list each high schools links when any forum in the category is called up, OR if need be, I can do the seperate links in each forum. It might be nice for those categories where we go into other leagues in the area.
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Buckeye2B
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Posted July 13th, 2008 10:19 PM IP
It does. And now obviously I need to set up a test board and fool around with it so that I don't blow my board up. We have around 1000 members in our forum, and I blew it up early in this, but have since taught myself enough to not get in that type of trouble again (and I keep back up of original script before inserting new just in case.) Add that to running a html editor similar to front page and it saves me a ton of issues....
I will try it and PM you if I have issues. Now the question is finding the time...
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Sage
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Posted July 13th, 2008 10:29 PM IP
I wish you luck with it, and I've blown up many-a-forum trying to learn HTML and javascript, so i know how you feel.
good luck. 
- More Scripts and Mods at indexOf('ExCo')
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Buckeye2B
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Posted July 13th, 2008 10:32 PM IP
I handle most of the html OK, but when you get to Java and all the variables...well, like any computer language, it's all about logic, but you have to take your time and think it through so you can follow the path. I'll be OK...just have to learn some more.
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