Please help - Books

[it@mishimoto.com]

Ok, so I feel pretty dumb asking this.

I've searched on here and read other users questions about books, but I'm still not understaning something.

I want add an Employee Handbook to my Wiki. I have a namespace called Books, and it's assigned the Book Namespace function.

I've added the new "book", and called it Employee Handbook. Now, if I try to add a chapter, and I choose Book as the existing forum for the chapter, it addes the chapter to the Employee Handbook, but it also lists that chapter as it's own book. I don't want this.

So, I understand then that I need to tell that chapter to be in a different forum, so I tried moving it to my main and only other Wiki forum. It keeps it as a chapter, but then the problem is the users can see that chapter as a thread/article posted under the other Wiki section.

My big issue is I do not want them to see these chapters listed anywhere else. I want them to click on Books, then Employee Handbook, and navigate to the different chapters through there, and only there. I don't want them being able to see individual chapters.

What am I missing? I see the book on this site, and I can't find the chapters individually, so I must be doing something really stupid. Please help.

[it@mishimoto.com]

I'm also having this issue...

I created another wiki forum called Chapters, that I figured I would add all my chapters too, so they would hopefully still show in books as chapters and not actual books.

Everytime I try to add a chapter, as soon as I go to save my changes, I get this every time:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 16777216 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 77824 bytes) in /users/teammishi.com/htdocs/includes/class_core.php(4090) : eval()'d code on line 92

When I reload, it created the article in the forum, but not part of the book.

[pegasus]

Hi,

You can do what we did:
Have a separate forum for chapters. Set the Display Order for that forum to 0, which hides it from the forum list.

As for the other issue, what version of vBulletin are you using? I don't have a hook at that line number on 4.1.5...

Either way your current memory_limit of 16M is very low. Most vBulletin pages use about 10M, but I have gotten vBulletin to need 26M on some content pages with all plugins disabled. Some vBulletin upgrade scripts have used over 70, and I have had inline moderation use even more than that. vBulletin tech support recommends that users have a limit of at least 64M but preferably 128M.

You can change this value by modifying your php.ini file if you have one and looking for memory_limit
If you're not allowed to change this value due to your host's restrictions, and they won't increase it for you, I would look for a new host.

[it@mishimoto.com]

Thanks for the reply. That's what I ended up doing last night. The only problem with that, is when they are clicking through the Book, initially it shows Wiki - Books - Employee Handbook, but once they page over to one of the chapters of that hidden forum, they see Wiki - Book Chapters - (Name of Article). But I guess that isn't too bad.

We are on vbulletin 4.0.5. I'm not the owner, but I have encouraged him to change hosting, as they have limited us on quite a bit of stuff. It's very frustrating.

I did find a work around to that error, I simply add the article 1st in the hidden forum, and then I go to the book, and click add chapter, and tell it to use an already existing URL, and that works every time.

Thanks again for the help!