Seeking Product/Plugin to Allow Thread Previews on a Single Forum

[mrklewis]

We are currently on vB 3.8 and our moderators are asking if we can enable 'thread preview' for a single forum to help them be able to moderate the forums more efficiently.

For performance reasons we have disabled the vBulletin options under 'Forum Display Options (forumdisplay)' the option 'Length of Thread Preview Text' is set to 0. We do not want to turn on previews for any other forum except specific ones.

Does anyone know of a product that would allow us to do this?

Thanks.

[kh99]

I don't know if there's any existing mod, but if instead of specific forums you enable it for specific user groups (like only for admins and moderators), then you could use this plugin:

if (is_member_of($vbulletin->userinfo, 5, 6, 7))
$vbulletin->options['threadpreview'] = 150;

using hook location global_start (of course you can change 150 to whatever length you want).

You might be able to do the same thing and check forum ids instead of usergroups, but I haven't tried it.

[mrklewis]

Thanks for the response ... I will give that a try.