New posts ordered by forum

[infocruceros]

Hi all!

I have installed VB 3.7 replacing my old Snitz Forum. My forum have over 500 new posts each day, so, "New posts" page is not very functional since it order the topics by last post date, merging forums and without any type of hierarchy.

Snitz Forum does it very good, because it keep the forum hierarchy and then show the topics with new posts grouped under each forum. That way:

- FORUM 1
-- topic with new post A
-- topic with new post B
-- topic with new post C
- FORUM 2
-- topic with new post D

etc...

Someone could make that mod? i think it will represent a step ahead for vBulletin forums and will be a great new feature. :)

[Lynne]

No mod needed. I just answered this question the other day - Group new posts by forum (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=192374)

[infocruceros]

that helps but... &sortby=forum sort forums by forumid, not by forum name or better, by forum displayorder.

I have found the sentence in line 3180 of search.php:
$sortby = 'thread.forumid ASC, thread.lastpost DESC';

The problem to sort like i put in the example is that you must sort by

parentid ASC, displayorder ASC

.... but... this is not the end, because parent forum has his own displayorder... you can't simply order by parentid...

i think that this need some programming time... someone could help?