Hi,
I want to reorganise my various fidonet echos. I made the mistake of having them all in one message group, and I'd like to change that. Is it possible to move a sub-board from one group to another?

Thanks
John

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Re: Moving Msg Sub-boards
By: John Dovey to All on Fri May 28 2021 02:07 pm

Hi,
I want to reorganise my various fidonet echos. I made the mistake of having them all in one message group, and I'd like to change that. Is it possible to move a sub-board from one group to another?

Yes, you can cut and paste message sub-boards between message groups in SCFG (one at a time).
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Re: Moving Msg Sub-boards
By: Digital Man to John Dovey on Fri May 28 2021 13:06:53

having them all in one message group, and I'd like to change that. Is
it possible to move a sub-board from one group to another?

Yes, you can cut and paste message sub-boards between message groups in SCFG (one at a time).

Awesome. Thank you! Works perfectly..
JD

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Re: Moving Msg Sub-boards
By: Digital Man to John Dovey on Fri May 28 2021 13:06:53

it possible to move a sub-board from one group to another?

Yes, you can cut and paste message sub-boards between message groups in SCFG (one at a time).

Ok,
Maybe I'm misunderstanding something or not doing something correctly, but here's my situation.

I create a new Message area. For the sake of argument, call it "FIDOADMIN" with "FIDO_AD" as the internel prefix.

I then go to the Fidonet area, Ctrl-x a sub-board (FN_SYSOPS) which has the internal code "Fidonet_FN_SYSOPS) and paste it into the FIDOADMIN group. It now has the internal code of FIDO_AD_FN_SYSOPS.

In the Areas.bbs file, the old prefix is still used, so I get a message that Fidonet_FN_SYSOPS isn't found (assuming passthru).

The only way I can figure to sort this out is to manually edit the areas.bbs file. If I export the message group, then I have to manually add the "links" which gets complicated.

Is there something I'm doing wrong?

JD
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El 31/5/21 a las 20:51, Boondock escribió:

Re: Moving Msg Sub-boards
By: Digital Man to John Dovey on Fri May 28 2021 13:06:53

>> it possible to move a sub-board from one group to another?
DM> Yes, you can cut and paste message sub-boards between message groups in
DM> SCFG (one at a time).

Ok,
Maybe I'm misunderstanding something or not doing something correctly, but here's my situation.

I create a new Message area. For the sake of argument, call it "FIDOADMIN" with "FIDO_AD" as the internel prefix.

I then go to the Fidonet area, Ctrl-x a sub-board (FN_SYSOPS) which has the internal code "Fidonet_FN_SYSOPS) and paste it into the FIDOADMIN group. It now has the internal code of FIDO_AD_FN_SYSOPS.

In the Areas.bbs file, the old prefix is still used, so I get a message that Fidonet_FN_SYSOPS isn't found (assuming passthru).

The only way I can figure to sort this out is to manually edit the areas.bbs file. If I export the message group, then I have to manually add the "links" which gets complicated.

Is there something I'm doing wrong?

i think that you must manually edit the file. (its the secure way)

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Re: Moving Msg Sub-boards
By: Boondock to Digital Man on Mon May 31 2021 06:51 pm

Re: Moving Msg Sub-boards
By: Digital Man to John Dovey on
Fri May 28 2021 13:06:53

it possible to move a sub-board from one group to another?

Yes, you can cut and paste message sub-boards between message groups in SCFG (one at a time).

Ok,
Maybe I'm misunderstanding something or not doing something correctly, but here's my situation.

I create a new Message area. For the sake of argument, call it "FIDOADMIN" with "FIDO_AD" as the internel prefix.

I then go to the Fidonet area, Ctrl-x a sub-board (FN_SYSOPS) which has the internal code "Fidonet_FN_SYSOPS) and paste it into the FIDOADMIN group. It now has the internal code of FIDO_AD_FN_SYSOPS.

I assume the internal code is changing because you're using internal code prefixes.

In the Areas.bbs file, the old prefix is still used, so I get a message that Fidonet_FN_SYSOPS isn't found (assuming passthru).

The only way I can figure to sort this out is to manually edit the areas.bbs file. If I export the message group, then I have to manually add the "links" which gets complicated.

Is there something I'm doing wrong?

Nope, that sounds correct. If you don't have any downlinks, you don't actually need an area file (areas.bbs) at all.
https://wiki.synchro.net/util:sbbsecho#area_file
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Re: Moving Msg Sub-boards
By: Digital Man to Boondock on Mon May 31 2021 17:07:18

Nope, that sounds correct. If you don't have any downlinks, you don't actually need an area file (areas.bbs) at all. https://wiki.synchro.net/util:sbbsecho#area_file

Ok. Thanks

I assume the internal code is changing because you're using internal code prefixes.

I hadn't realised that I didn't need to.
That would make things a lot less complicated. Thanks

John
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Re: Moving Msg Sub-boards
By: Boondock to Digital Man on Tue Jun 01 2021 12:36 am

Re: Moving Msg Sub-boards
By: Digital Man to Boondock on
Mon May 31 2021 17:07:18

Nope, that sounds correct. If you don't have any downlinks, you don't actually need an area file (areas.bbs) at all. https://wiki.synchro.net/util:sbbsecho#area_file

Ok. Thanks

I assume the internal code is changing because you're using internal code prefixes.

I hadn't realised that I didn't need to.
That would make things a lot less complicated. Thanks

Internal code prefixes are generally a *good* thing and can make the organization of the message bases easier, but it does change the message area's internal code when you move a sub-board from one group to another.
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