Catagory Structure bulk setup file or API

[whrsoc]

Forum URL: whrsoc.freeforums.net/

I want to set up a structure that organically supports the interests of our community action group and its micro organisation, but it seems like a lot of work to do it manually.

I am hoping that there is a method to create catagories and groups via a configuration file upload or via an API or that you allow you web forms to be programmed against ie XMLHTTP sudo-AJAX style?

( I'm new here and love your business model and will go ad-free and more probably.  For now till we get setup Free is a great price.  I hope to support many such groups and will be recommending ProBoards.  Hopefully later to integrate it into a complete package to support, structure and organise small community groups.  I love what you've created and offer.  Its perfect, almost.

[Nscalerr 🐺]

Hi whrsoc and welcome to ProBoards Support.

Unfortunately it is not possible to upload files of the type you specified to the forum, or to automate the creation of the forums categories and boards, you will have to create the struture yourself.

Sorry it is not the answer you were after.

[whrsoc]

I was after the right answer and that is it, so perfect.

  I really like what you have here and it I can see that it can be a hugely powerful tool for the small groups I'm targetig if set up with well thought out structures.

  I 1,000,000% appriciate that you generously offer this for 'free' and even ad-free at a great price, even with paying to point our own sub-domain to the forum.

  I'm really interested in adding this feature, to bulk add and edit cayagories and boards, which will multiply the power of this tool. Probably as an 'explorer' style view. Would there be others who are either already doing someting similar or who would be interested in controbuting to this Aim?

[Kami]

Feb 25, 2021 8:08:20 GMT -8 whrsoc said:

I was after the right answer and that is it, so perfect.

  I really like what you have here and it I can see that it can be a hugely powerful tool for the small groups I'm targetig if set up with well thought out structures.

  I 1,000,000% appriciate that you generously offer this for 'free' and even ad-free at a great price, even with paying to point our own sub-domain to the forum.

  I'm really interested in adding this feature, to bulk add and edit cayagories and boards, which will multiply the power of this tool. Probably as an 'explorer' style view. Would there be others who are either already doing someting similar or who would be interested in controbuting to this Aim?

For whatever it's worth, v6 will have built in bulk creation options + you can currently bulk edit categories/boards already by using CTRL + Left Click while selecting boards.

A PB admin can label this as a request however since PB historically doesn't give you this type of access, I don't think it's a likely request to be filled especially since the options you're requesting will be natively added in the admin panel if they don't already exist without the need for additional database access.

[Michael]

Hi,

I'm going to label this as a feature request. While it is extremely unlikely we'll add any of this functionality (basically for the reasons Kami outlined above) I'd still like to keep the spirit of the idea alive. There will likely eventually be API functionality (webhooks, etc) available in v6.

[whrsoc]

I hope I'm not taking this thread and board too off topic and will gladly branch it to somewhere more appropriate.

Whilst being new here, I get an active positive vibe, whilst maybe snowed under with good ideas, many of which have obviously already been implemented and am over all very impressed with this project.

I'm interested in the possibility of expoloring creating pluging as experiance with forums/boards has shown me that threads can be so much more than just a conversation, by layering in a form in the send box, stored in the post as a simple text data structure possible json and custom UI formatting of the board items and threads.

Is there anywhere i can see the deatils about the plugin environment and the goodness comming in V6?

[Kami]

Feb 26, 2021 6:02:25 GMT -8 whrsoc said:

I hope I'm not taking this thread and board too off topic and will gladly branch it to somewhere more appropriate.

Whilst being new here, I get an active positive vibe, whilst maybe snowed under with good ideas, many of which have obviously already been implemented and am over all very impressed with this project.

I'm interested in the possibility of expoloring creating pluging as experiance with forums/boards has shown me that threads can be so much more than just a conversation, by layering in a form in the send box, stored in the post as a simple text data structure possible json and custom UI formatting of the board items and threads.

Is there anywhere i can see the deatils about the plugin environment and the goodness comming in V6?

Yeah! Right now, v6 is in a closed beta — if you'd like to be a part of it, contributing to ProBoards will get you into the closed beta list.

Alternatively, you can wait til v6 shifts to open beta and have a look then. (:

In both cases, the Development Blog section on this forum has all the threads so far on upcoming v6 changes. You can also edit your profile on this forum to join the v6 alpha tester group (profile > edit > groups), then edit your settings (profile > edit > settings) to use the v6 beta theme; this doesn't give you plugin access, but you can see the user-end changes that have been made.

[whrsoc]

Thanks for the tip. It looks like the bronze is the same price as ad-free and you get ad-free as part of it, so i'll definitly do that and more if possible. To be fair i probably won't be un to speed enough befor the next version comes out so i'll get in the beta to get a geads up.

Where is the best place to make suggestions for features? I'm a developer so i know how to offer simple suggestions that are powerful. For instance freating a decision making proecess, with custom boards, where threads can be issues or solutions, with solution threads shown as a subgroup of the issue thread. Both types of thread and post can be up/down voted to show which have the most interest/support.

Clasified ads, freecycle, thing sharing, ...

[Kami]

Feb 26, 2021 15:26:21 GMT -8 whrsoc said:

Thanks for the tip. It looks like the bronze is the same price as ad-free and you get ad-free as part of it, so i'll definitly do that and more if possible. To be fair i probably won't be un to speed enough befor the next version comes out so i'll get in the beta to get a geads up.

Where is the best place to make suggestions for features? I'm a developer so i know how to offer simple suggestions that are powerful. For instance freating a decision making proecess, with custom boards, where threads can be issues or solutions, with solution threads shown as a subgroup of the issue thread. Both types of thread and post can be up/down voted to show which have the most interest/support.

Clasified ads, freecycle, thing sharing, ...

For clarity - that's personal ad removal whereas adfree is on a per-forum basis. So basically, your personal account will not experience ads on any forum you visit, as long as you are logged into your ProBoards global account, regardless of the forum's adfree status.

General v6 suggestions can be made here in the support board. Bear in mind the scope of your suggestions should encompass message board functionality & features as opposed to trying to duplicate say, a reddit-esque forum structure. PB isn't looking to become the next reddit / social media site, it's a message board forum software.

v6 suggestions with regards to admin features you'd like to see should go in either the themes or plugins boards, in the pinned thread asking for suggestions for each -- again, bear in mind scope, as these are for admin-side forum functionality. So a suggestion like "I think plugins should allow you to do X" would be great, but "please make this plugin for me" is not the kind of feedback being sought.

You can also visit the v6 beta boards to give feedback on the design of the v6 software, provide feedback about existing v6 features, and report bugs.

Hope that helps!