We have migrated a forum from vBuletin to Discourse. Our forum has many categories with subcategories.
The main categories themselves have some description but the subcategories don’t need any description as the title is self explanatory. Lets say, category: CHAIRS - description: let discuss what type of joins you use to build your chairs.- subcategory: armchair - subcategory: reclining chairs, etc.
Since in Discourse the Description of the category is actually a topic, I found myself having to fill a topic that is not required and stays floating around inside that category.
Is there a way of getting rid of this? of not having a “about the xxx category” topic?
You can delete them, I found this out by accidentally deleting one of mine. I use them to list what it’s about and sometimes who the moderator / owner is, but it doesn’t seem to be required.
Thanks, @awlogan I just tried this, and even though it asks me to confirm if I want to delete the post, it does nothing after and does not delete it . I also tried changing ownership from System to the Admin but still the same.
I also trying creating a new category with the same result.
I was using IE in this case. Must will try tomorrow with other computer browser just in case.
Well I did something because Josh had to restore it My hosted instance one of the categories did not have the description, when I messaged support Josh was able to get it back, here is the note he sent me:
OK, topic restored.
For future reference, no console access is needed. To view deleted topics,
simply append ?status=deleted to the URL. For example, [category deleted] allowed me to see
the about this category topic and restore it.