The behaviour youn are referring to is described in [url=http://manual.b2evolution.net/Blog_All]this section[/url] of the manual. You are a starter, so I advise you to go through other parts of the manual as well.

However if you do come across sections you don't understand, don't hesitate to pop a question in the forum.

Good luck

Thanks for the reply. I have already read this, but was hoping there was some workaround to enable the functionality on all blogs.

Maybe it would be easier if I explained the functionality I'm going for:

All blogs displayed as sections in the sidebar, with their respective categories/sections underneath each blog. The preferred functionality would be collapsing the categories/sections unless you were in that specific blog, but for a first go-round, I figured getting everything to display at once would be easier.

I should add I'm not looking for someone to tell me exactly what to do - just something to point me in the right direction for information on how to implement such functionality. I'm not a coder, either, I'm a designer, so I may not understand the correctly terminology, but I can look at code and figure out what it's doing, even if I can't write it from scratch myself.

There will be in the upcoming 2.0 version of B2evo. It will land in a few weeks time. You can have a preview in the [url=http://demo.b2evolution.net/?revision=HEAD&php_ver=php5&mysql_ver=mysql5]Demo[/url] or even install an alpha version, that can be [url=http://doc.b2evolution.net/b2evo_HEAD_snapshot.tgz]download[/url]ed. (Note: not for production servers, but fun for secundary private blogs).
More info is also on the [url=http://b2evolution.net/index.php]home page[/url] of B2evolution.

Good luck

You can have a look at [url=http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?t=4884&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=categories]this post[/url] and perhaps you can do something with cross-posting categories in the file ../blogs/conf/_admin.php.

What you want is done before and I even had a working setup in my testlab, but I can't remember the details. The correct search query in the search box of this forum should point to this post of ages.

Good luck

I found the post I was looking for. The answer was (who else) from EdB:

EdB wrote:

Return your plugin file to it's original configuration and try something new, but first let's know how the problem happens. Blog #1 is an aggregator blog. That means all posts in all categories are part of blog #1 - even though they were posted in a different blog. That means all the categories are considered part of blog #1 when it comes time to make the sidebar categories list, which is why the categories plugin has a special case for blog #1.

Well then all we have to do is trick the categories plugin into believing it is making the sidebar item for blog #1 no matter what blog is actually being displayed. Fortunately we can (probably) use the oldest dirty trick in the book. In your skins/yourskin/_main.php file find the bit that makes your categories in the sidebar. It'll look something like this:

	<?php
		// -------------------------- CATEGORIES INCLUDED HERE -----------------------------
		// Call the Categories plugin:
		$Plugins->call_by_code( 'evo_Cats', array(	// Add parameters below:
			) );
		// -------------------------------- END OF CATEGORIES ----------------------------------
	?>

Now add the dirty trick:

	<?php
// The oldest dirty trick in the book:
$saved_blog = $blog;
$blog = 1;
		// -------------------------- CATEGORIES INCLUDED HERE -----------------------------
		// Call the Categories plugin:
		$Plugins->call_by_code( 'evo_Cats', array(	// Add parameters below:
			) );
		// -------------------------------- END OF CATEGORIES ----------------------------------
// Restore after dirty trick:
$blog = $saved_blog;
	?>

I haven't tested this but I'm pretty sure it'll work.

Good luck

That worked! Thanks so much Afwas, that's exactly what I needed for this first version. Eventually I hope to find a way to get this working as collapsing menus...guess we'll see :). Checked out the 2.0 alpha and don't see the ability to collapse menus in there either.

This is exactly why I love open-source software: someone is bound to know more than you do and is willing to help out to better the community.

The collapsing tree issue is solved. I answered in [url=http://forums.b2evolution.net//viewtopic.php?p=58257#58257]this post[/url].

Good luck

Thanks for the link, though that's not quite what I meant: I was hoping to only display blog categories when I'm on a specific blog, without the ability to see categories available in other blogs. That, combined w/ the link you sent, is closer to my ultimate goal.

Thanks for the continuing support, though. So far this community has been extremely responsive; I'm impressed!

- N

These are about all the answers I can give you. To get exactly what you want would require a hack and someone programming it. As such that would be to be arranged, but it would also be a waste of time and resource because of the upcoming 2.0 version. So my advise is: be happy with what you got now and once the 2.0 is available, ask for the functionality that is not there.

Happy blogging.