Small Questions Regarding Forum Id's

[Stormraven]

I have a copy of Xenforo on localhost on my iMac which is currently being repaired by Apple, so I haven't had much time to mess about with Xenforo in detail, but one thing I just noticed when surfing around was that some forums on the official xenforo community have an ID in the url and others done, for example:

http://xenforo.com/community/forums/announcements/

http://xenforo.com/community/forums/implemented-resolved-suggestions.15/

Why is this? Just out of curiosity.

 

[Vincent_imported]

Good Question. Can't answer it though.

 

[Floris]

I can answer it

In the admin.php > applications > display node list > you can open a FORUM and it has a title portion and url portion. Leaving the url portion empty it will rewrite the title portion, and post-fix it with the unique id. (so when you have two forums called 'hello' then you automatically, at least, will get hello.14 and hello.21

If you are 100% certain you will only have one forum called hello, you can set the url portion to hi or hello or greetings, or introductions. Your url will not be the rewrite on the title, but the /hell instead, and won't need the unique id.

Make sure though that you have friendly urls rewrite turned on under the admin.php > options > seo settings.

 

[Vincent_imported]

Ahaaa I see

 

[Stormraven]

I can answer it

In the admin.php > applications > display node list > you can open a FORUM and it has a title portion and url portion. Leaving the url portion empty it will rewrite the title portion, and post-fix it with the unique id. (so when you have two forums called 'hello' then you automatically, at least, will get hello.14 and hello.21

If you are 100% certain you will only have one forum called hello, you can set the url portion to hi or hello or greetings, or introductions. Your url will not be the rewrite on the title, but the /hell instead, and won't need the unique id.

Make sure though that you have friendly urls rewrite turned on under the admin.php > options > seo settings.

I couldn't have asked for a better answer. Thanks Floris