Books

[Praetor1]

Several questions.

1) On your default page how do you get the books heading to goto the special:book page instead of to the forum itself?

since I am really new to Vault and Vbulletin itself my domain is www.rpden.net/forums any example would help.

2) Is there away to have the special page books, only show the books and not the chapters under it. What I want to design is a wiki book for several campaigns such as
Savage birthright
DC Adventures
Star Wars RPG
etc and I just want the book names listed so no one has to look down the 40 chapters in each of those books.

3) Is there a way to have the defualt page show a link for each book. So instead of Books, Categories, etc. I could have the names of the above campaigns on the page each taking you to their book?

Anyway I have had fun playing with program so far.

Alvin

[pegasus]

1) See: http://www.vaultwiki.org/manual/Repl...the-Forum-View
Set the Forum Link to http://www.rpden.net/forums/showwiki.php?title=Special:Books

2) At the current time, it's not as intuitive as can be, but here's what you need to do:

If you don't want the chapters to show up as books too, then you should create the chapters in a different forum than your Books forum.

e.g. Create 'Star Wars RPG Book' in Book forum. Click 'Add New Chapter'. Create 'Chapter 1' in a different forum.

3) Create a custom wiki page that should be used for the default page. In your custom page have links to each campaign book.

In AdminCP > Settings > Options > VaultWiki: Server Settings > Replace Wiki Tab with URL, enter the URL of your custom wiki page.

[Praetor1]

1) See: http://www.vaultwiki.org/manual/Repl...the-Forum-View

2) At the current time, it's not as intuitive as can be, but here's what you need to do:

If you don't want the chapters to show up as books too, then you should create the chapters in a different forum than your Books forum.

e.g. Create 'Star Wars RPG Book' in Book forum. Click 'Add New Chapter'. Create 'Chapter 1' in a different forum.
.

I tried something like that but the chapter still shows up on the special page under books. I made a sub forum underneath of books and created a chapter there. I guess I need to make it not a sub forum?

Thanks for all your assistance.

Alvin

[pegasus]

Correct, you should not make it a sub-forum. Most users create their chapters in the "Default" wiki forum, or in a sub-forum of that.

We are trying to fix this confusing design issue for the future, but right now it's something everyone has to work with.

[Praetor1]

Again thanks for the help, atm I just ended up creating a new home page for the Wiki and added the links myself this bypasses the chapter problem altogether. I also made a sub forum underneath book for each campaign. Which should allow me to set permissions for each campaign which allows me to et a couple of my friends have their own book with permissions set for them only to edit.