Folks,
I would like fireboard to take up the full width of the web page. After installing the component where do I find the setting in Joomla to remove the left main menu and right area. I'm using the stock joomla template.

Regards
-tb

Access each module that show up in the left and right positions and select menu links in the "Menu Item Link(s):" EXCEPT the forum.

Now there is a empty box with no menu. What am I missing. the forum does not stretch full width.


1.) -> Site Modules
2.) -> Main Menu
3.) -> Menu Item Links
4.) -> Selected everything except the forum.

I did this for Main, User, Other.

Also, How do I get the Popular and latest off of the forum page as well. I just want the Banner and top menu.

-tb

What template are you using? Those are still modules. Make sure that every module that you DON'T want appearing on your forum page is set up like this.

I'm trying to do the exact same thing, I need the left hand column for other pages so I don't fully want to delete it. Basically I'm using the rhuk solarflare template with a fresh copy of joomla and fireboard, and I've done all the above, but am left with the outline of the left hand column still but only short as it is empty. Is there anyway to have this column 'disappear' for the forum section?

cheers,

Kris

I just ran in to this problem and solved it by using the method described above (set all modules to NOT show up on the forum page). One thing to note, I had to do this with ALL the module (even the modules that were not published!) before the left side column completely disappeared. Hopefully this helps.

I try to do same thing, i set all modules to not show on the forum page, but i still see empty small table on the left menu. Any idea?

My only advice is to make sure all modules, even those that are not published, are set not to show on the forum page. Double check to make sure every module that is set to the left position is set not to show on the forum page. That seemed to work for me. If it doesn't work, I'm not too sure as I am still relatively new to FireBoard as well.

this problem unfortunately has nothing to do with Fireboard, bus is a limitation of the joomla template. that left column is a hard coded DIV in the template which doesn't check if there are modules in that column.

the only thing you can do is copy the entire rhuk_solarflare_ii directory and give it another name, like rhuk_solarflare_forum or something.

now, open templateDetails.xml in an editor and change the name to something else. this will help you identify the different version in the Joomla backend.

open template_css.css in the /css directory and search for #content_outer. change the width to 800px.

open index.php and search for:

[code:1]div id="left_outer"[/code:1]

delete this line and the next 4:

[code:1]
div id="left_outer"
div id="left_inner"
?php mosLoadModules ( 'left', -2 ); ?
/div
/div
[/code:1]

after you,ve saved all files, go to the Joomla backend and then to Site -> template manager -> site templates. select the 'new' template and press assign in the top right corner. on the next page, select forum and press save. this tells joomla to use the new template when you navigate to the forum and the standard template for the rest of the site.

of course you can select more menu items when assigning templates, or if you want to change the template altogether, select the new template and press default instead of assign

forgot to say that you also need to change the link to the css file in index.php