I have viewTopicsIfOnlyOneForum=1 and would like to keep it that way. However when I added another forum that is supposed to be private for everyone except a select few the other forum isn't displayed.

For ordinary users I want only the topics of the main forum to be show, but for those with access to the private forum both forums should be shown.

Is this a bug or have I forgotten something?

I would suggest that you order your forums that way so the publically shown forum appears first.

Then a little hack would be needed... at the end of your language pack, try to paste this code:

if($user_id>0){
foreach($clForumsUsers as $key=>$val){
if(in_array($user_id, $val)) $viewTopicsIfOnlyOneForum=0;
}
}

it should disable $viewTopicsIfOnlyOneForum if the logged user is listed in some of the $clForumsUsers array elements.

Thanks.. But I'll probably remove the viewTopicsIfOnlyOneForum option instead and try to make sure all links point to the main forum. It will be almost the same..

I suppose if you make some of the forum "closed" i.e. using $clForums setting, hidden forums won't be visible until the certain user is logged in. So for "non-allowed" users on the first page you will have just one forum title listed with latest discussions from this forum... if this is suitable for you, then of course it is better to skip all this hassle ;-)