Duplicate Child forum under Node page

[Seeker-Smith]

Affected version

2.2

When you create a child node under a node page it shows up as a main node and not a sub node. Should it not just be a sub forum?

 

[beerForo]

This is an older annoyance, as found here:

Design issue Thread 'Forum node issue'

Jun 21, 2019

If you have a Forum node as the parent, and one as the child, the child does not act as a sub-forum, it acts as a forum in the same list. It should follow the sub-forum display rules you choose but it does not, it acts as a forum with same size row size and descriptions, like parent forum nodes. Thanks

• beerForo
• Replies: 20
• Forum: Resolved bug reports

 

[Seeker-Smith]

Wow 5 years and not fixed.

 

[Jeremy P]

As noted prior, this is a design issue that likely won't be addressed. They display the same as any level two forum in the node tree. You can nest the page in a category to get the result you're after.

Design issue Post in thread 'Forum node issue'

Jul 4, 2019

This is kind of expected, and not particularly something I feel we should change.

The reasons for this are fairly difficult to explain, though essentially it's because we do not have any visual distinction between forum nodes which are at "depth 1" in the tree and "depth 2". The "Sub-forums" display only appears at "depth n" (depth 3 and above).

The only way to make a change here is to change the appearance of "depth 1" forums, but I'm not exactly sure which styling, if any, would make it clear. Any changes we made to "depth 2" forums would affect the usual children of forums within a...

• Chris D