Editing widgets on multiple forums

Currently, all forums within a single group share the same page layouts. Layouts (and themes in general) are customizable at the site, group, or blog levels only.

To adjust the layouts of individual forums, you can either:

1. Place the forums in different groups.
2. Edit the widgets (in Widget Studio) to be aware of the forum they are rendering and adjust their visibility/behavior.

Thank you Ben. I've created a custom widget using the studio but don't know where to start when it comes to editing it. It sounds like the functionality I need is possible, but I don't know where to start. Any guidance you could provide?

What types of adjustments to do you want to make in this case? What is your end-goal?

Our current setup is:

Subgroup

• Forum 1
• Forum 2
• Forum 3

I want to have a different widget on each of the forums. I don't mind creating a unique widget for each forum as long as I can customize it to only display on its relevant forum. 

You could create multiple copies of the widgets you want on the page and add logic to the top of the content script of the forum-specific widgets that checks for the current form using code similar to the following:

#set($forumId = false)
#set($forumId = $core_v2_forum.Current.Id)
#if (!$forumId || $forumId != TARGETFORUMID)
    $core_v2_widget.Hide()
#end

Where you replace TARGETFORUMID with the 'Identifier' number for the forum from Manage Forum > Forum Options > Identifiers > Identifier.

Anytime there is not a current forum or the current forum is not the target forum, the widget will be hidden.

You could create multiple copies of the widgets you want on the page and add logic to the top of the content script of the forum-specific widgets that checks for the current form using code similar to the following:

#set($forumId = false)
#set($forumId = $core_v2_forum.Current.Id)
#if (!$forumId || $forumId != TARGETFORUMID)
    $core_v2_widget.Hide()
#end

Where you replace TARGETFORUMID with the 'Identifier' number for the forum from Manage Forum > Forum Options > Identifiers > Identifier.

Anytime there is not a current forum or the current forum is not the target forum, the widget will be hidden.

Thank you so much! This helps a ton.