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How do I get Site Builder to display Forum topics, not forum posts?

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On my main page, I want to show a list of the 5 latest Forum topics added or replied to (The Forum lives on a Community profile.)

When I create an Item List widget for the Forum module, I get links to pages that don't exist, that refer to profiles of members who posted, rather than to the Forum thread itself.
For example, I'll click on what looks like a Forum topic on the list and it will direct to this URL: http://mysite.jamroomhosting.com/profilename/forum/700/forum-topic (not a real url, just an example of the format).
The correct link would be http://mysite.jamroomhosting.com/community/forum/uncategorized/700/forum-topic.

And should I order the list by _created or _updated to show the most recently active topics, whether started or commented upon?

(It works perfectly on the default NingJa main page template, but I'm creating a new main page layout with Site Builder and can't replicate the function.)

updated by @lesrinchen: 12/22/16 11:55:59AM

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Thank you so much, Michael. I appreciate your putting these special instructions together. We'll work on it in the next few days and get back to you if anything's unclear.

In the meantime, I've been trying to build a new home page (for logged in users) with Site Builder. I've got a page now that LOOKS pretty good, but isn't functioning properly yet. I'm having a helluva time getting the widgets to populate correctly.

I want to show latest Forum posts (the Forum for use by all users is on the Community profile. I've tried ordering by _created and ordering by _updated. Don't know which is appropriate for showing the thread with the most recently started or commented upon. Either way, the links to the posts don't work because they direct to individual profile forums (which don't exist) rather than to the Community Forum where the discussions actually are.

I also want to show latest images posted OR commented upon. I think I've got it now showing latest posted (ordered by _created) but that won't bring to the front an old photo that gets a new comment. Is there a way to do so? Should ordering by _updated do that?

Maybe a widget listing Latest Activity would be best to cover both these functions. But I'm not sure how to be sure I'm listing EVERYBODY's activity on all modules, rather than just activity of followed profiles. This is a tiny private group. For engagement to work, I need EVERYBODY's activity/comments/posts to appear.

Finally, the Tag Cloud widget is only displaying 9 tags, even though I've set the tag limit at 30. On the default home (index) page of the template, the Tag Cloud shows about 25 different tags I've added to images. Why are they not all showing on the Tag Cloud Widget I add in Site Builder?

I'm really hoping I'll manage to make Jamroom work for my community. And feel very supported by your responsiveness, and Paul's. But I'm getting very discouraged with how few things seem to work the way I think they're going to. I'm afraid it may be beyond my grasp.... Please help me see that's not so.

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If you have a how-to, that would be great!

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Thanks, Michael. I believe that user page is the one visitors to my Jamroom site see if they're not logged in. My site is a private meeting space for students enrolled in my art program. I set it to Private (no pages visible). So when visitors arrive, they see the screenshot below. My goal would be for them to see instead a kind of landing page for my teaching program, from which new visitors could be invited to click a link to Learn More on my main website, while enrolled students could sign in to the private site. Is that possible?

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Does this mean I have to choose one way OR the other (template editing or site builder pages) and can't go back and forth between the two? Specifically, is it necessary to turn off Site Builder before modifying existing templates using html?

I have someone trying to help me modify my User module index.tpl template (the page visitors to my private site will see when they're not logged in). And he's not having any success getting the new page to show. I wonder whether it's because we have Site Builder enabled.

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I think I've got it, Michael. The proof will be in the doing! Will keep you posted.

And thanks, Paul. Yes, I'd read the Site Builder documentation but felt like I couldn't get to the starting line. I think/hope I've got it now. Sure to be up late again tonight!

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I've just migrated my Mini network from Ning, with Paul's help (thank you!) I'm trying to get it as simple and streamlined as possible before I invite my group members in. I'm on the NingJa skin.

Among other efforts, I'm trying to move things around on the home/index page using Site Builder (and make the Activity section show everybody everybody's activity). I'm encountering two major obstacles:

First, as soon as I make Site Builder active through my ACP, my top menu disappears. Gone is the "Home Forum Images Video Profiles" navigation. Only ACP and my username remain. Is this normal? So it means the Site Builder module needs to be disabled whenever I'm not actively using it?

Secondly, when I go to the Home page (via my logo) while Site Builder is active and click on the Site Builder button and Page Config, I get a pop-up dialogue that tells me I have to create a fresh Site Builder page. If I say OK, I'm given the opportunity to create a page from scratch. That's a lot harder than dragging things around on an existing page. Is there a way for me to start with what I've got and modify instead of being forced to create from scratch?

Thanks,
Leslie
updated by @lesrinchen: 09/12/16 09:15:12PM

Questions about using Profile Exclude

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Thank you so much for your responsiveness and clarity, Michael. It works perfectly now and does exactly what I need, solving multiple problems all at once!

Questions about using Profile Exclude

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I installed the Profile Exclude module but haven't been able to get it to work yet. Three questions:

1. Exactly what do I need to enter into the Excluded Profiles box on the Profile Exclude Global Config? Is it the same as Profile Name? Or Profile Url Name? Or the name with the @ sign in front of it? Is it case sensitive?

2. My community Forum is housed on a Community profile owned by me. If I "exclude" that Community profile, hiding it from the profile list page, will the Forum still operate and be visible to all users? That's what I hope.

3. If I also "exclude" some member profiles, hiding them also from the profile list page, will their forum posts and images still be viewable by other users? That's what I hope.

So far, the users I've tried to exclude have still appeared on the profile list page, even when I sign out of my admin account and sign in as a standard user. So I'm imagining I just haven't entered the profile_id's correctly. Hoping someone here can set me right. Thanks!
updated by @lesrinchen: 12/06/16 07:18:05AM