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Topic: linking you catagory titles, to the catagory pages...
October 19th, 2004 10:59 AM
Sage first find this in the "Index Page" of your Custom HTML Pages...

[code]
<!-- BEGIN catlink -->

<tr>
<td colspan="4" width="100%" class="Heading"><span class="HeadingText"><b>{catlink.catname}</b></span></td>
</tr>

<!-- BEGIN forum -->

and switch it with this...

<!-- BEGIN catlink -->

<tr>
<td colspan="4" width="100%" class="Heading"><span class="HeadingText"><b><a href="http://s2.excoboard.com/exco/index.php?boardid={boardid}&category={catlink.catid}">{catlink.catname}</a></b></span></td>
</tr>

<!-- BEGIN forum -->

change the blue text to Menu if you want it to have the same bg as the menu does (like what it was before you enabled the templates ;))

change the red text depending on what server you are on.

and thats it :)
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November 15th, 2004 11:28 PM
Catchow Sage,

I am not sure what this does but I tried to install it anyway. I think that it might have worked but it changed the whole appearence of the category heading. Did I do something wrong? I took it out so that no one whould get confused so it is impossible for you look at it now. But have you heard of this happening before?
November 16th, 2004 12:20 AM
Sage go to my forum and click on the catagory title. and you will see what it does.

and ya i did hear that before.

but i found out why it did that...i made my own css and forgot to change the class back to the origional. :p ill fix it.
November 16th, 2004 02:23 PM
Catchow OK thank you so much Sage. I was certain that I had installed it properly but it just looked so weird.
November 16th, 2004 02:38 PM
Catchow Oooooooooooooooooo cool! Thank you thank you thank you! This will make it so much easier to direct members to different areas of the board! We have 60 something members who are housewives and full time mothers who are all very technically challenged. Wr need all the help we can get LOL!
November 18th, 2004 07:33 PM
smart_guy_55 I went to your forum and I do not see it! :S Im confused what ur script is!
November 18th, 2004 09:58 PM
Catchow smart guy,

Say you wanted to direct a poster to a games category or member feedback or whatever. Without this code you can't direct them to the category they need with a link. My board has gotten so long that if someone wants to know where to post a recipe I could only give vague directions. . . it's near the bottom of the board. Now I can post a link for the proper category. *grins*
November 19th, 2004 06:45 PM
BluAngelGrrl Sage, it did something to my forum I'm not really sure I like.....the headings work like it's supposed to, but now the background there is black...making it all hard to read.....can you tell me if I did something wrong? Could you please take a peek and see.
November 19th, 2004 07:02 PM
BluAngelGrrl Nevermind...I did some tweaking and figured it out.....all's good now.

EDIT TO ADD:

Now when I click on it, I get taken to Page cannot be displayed...ugghhh...what is the problem??? Please sage, can you help me?

Last edit: And if this didn't fix it, I give up. I removed the s2 and had replaced with s1.....was getting page not displayed...so removed the s1 and now it appears to be working fine....who knows....I'll leave it up a bit and see if it keeps working.

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