Foxtrek_64
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Bit of a strange question here-
I'm currently in the progress of migrating my community from Invision Community to XenForo. This is a community that surrounds a Minecraft Roleplay server, so one of the requirements we have is a place to hold our lore.
Invision has a Database system, which allows you to create something akin to forum nodes which are not displayed in the main board. A database can be represented in XenForo in one of two ways, depending on the setup you're intending to replicate. You can choose to not have forum categories, in which case it emulates a Forum type, or you can choose to have categories in which it emulates a Category type with Forum nodes as each of your categories.
Replicating this setup works pretty well, but there are two limitations here.
First is the url for this. In invision, if a database is named Lore, then its url slug is likely something like lore. You would then access this page via
Likewise a particular article may be found under
I'm trying to replicate this setup as closely as possible, but I don't believe this sort of url rewriting is possible with built-in route filters. I have tried a wiki plugin but even if I can use a route filter to change the wiki application url to /lore, it doesn't support creating pages with any sort of heirarchy (mostly due to wikis not having any sort of heirarchy built in).
I have read that the XenForo Resources addon does handle article-like content, but it seems to be more oriented towards downloads. You do seem to be able to create categories for a sort of hierarchical structure, but this creates urls like /resources/categories/category.1/ and like the forum system, resources themselves are hosted in a different path entirely.
Is there anything that will replicate the Invision url pathing built into XenForo, or any plugins to this effect, or am I going to need to commission something?
I'm currently in the progress of migrating my community from Invision Community to XenForo. This is a community that surrounds a Minecraft Roleplay server, so one of the requirements we have is a place to hold our lore.
Invision has a Database system, which allows you to create something akin to forum nodes which are not displayed in the main board. A database can be represented in XenForo in one of two ways, depending on the setup you're intending to replicate. You can choose to not have forum categories, in which case it emulates a Forum type, or you can choose to have categories in which it emulates a Category type with Forum nodes as each of your categories.
Replicating this setup works pretty well, but there are two limitations here.
First is the url for this. In invision, if a database is named Lore, then its url slug is likely something like lore. You would then access this page via
www.example.com/lore
. In XenForo, the equivalent address would be www.example.com/categories/lore
, which is not as clean.Likewise a particular article may be found under
www.example.com/lore/flora/sundew
whereas the corresponding article in XenForo would be something like www.example.com/threads/sundew.57
I'm trying to replicate this setup as closely as possible, but I don't believe this sort of url rewriting is possible with built-in route filters. I have tried a wiki plugin but even if I can use a route filter to change the wiki application url to /lore, it doesn't support creating pages with any sort of heirarchy (mostly due to wikis not having any sort of heirarchy built in).
I have read that the XenForo Resources addon does handle article-like content, but it seems to be more oriented towards downloads. You do seem to be able to create categories for a sort of hierarchical structure, but this creates urls like /resources/categories/category.1/ and like the forum system, resources themselves are hosted in a different path entirely.
Is there anything that will replicate the Invision url pathing built into XenForo, or any plugins to this effect, or am I going to need to commission something?