Forum URL rewrite settings per category

[sinucello]

Hi,

I have a category with a good amount of forums and now would like to add another category that has exactly the same forums in it. The problem is, that I use the "fformat" setting "forum_title" so the new forums can`t have the same name as the existing ones.

To solve this, I could change the fformat setting from "[forum_title]/" to "[forum_path]/" or "forum[forum_id]/" but that would effect the existing forums as well.

Is there a way to change the fformat setting only for the new category?

Example:
the old "snacks" forum would keep it`s URL:
Snacks - Wunderkessel - die Koch-Community mit Herz

and the new "snacks" forum would get this URL:
wunderkessel.de - die Thermomix-Community

For me this would be the best solution as I don`t want to lose any links in the google index.

thank you - all the best,
Sacha

[briansol]

It is not possible to have 2 forums with the same name.

[sinucello]

Hi,

It is not possible to have 2 forums with the same name.

on my forum it is possible:

Here`s a test:
both forums:
http://www.wunderkessel.de/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=15
and
http://www.wunderkessel.de/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=305

have the same name "suppen" which is german for "soups".

When I change the fformat setting from "[forum_title]/" to "[forum_path]/, those forums are viewable with the following URLs:

http://www.wunderkessel.de/forum/tm-rezepte/suppen/

http://www.wunderkessel.de/forum/hilfe-anleitungen-unterstuetzung/test-spielwiese/suppen/

So this works perfectly well. But it doesn`t solve the problem I mentioned in my initial posting as I`d like to keep my existing URLs and only want to change the URLs of the new forums.

http://www.wunderkessel.de/forum/suppen/ must remain as is and not going to be changed to:
http://www.wunderkessel.de/forum/tm-rezepte/suppen/

and the other forum with the name suppen must be changed to:
http://www.wunderkessel.de/forum/hilfe-anleitungen-unterstuetzung/test-spielwiese/suppen/

all the best,
Sacha