using vbulletin for company intranet - plus minor hack query

[mossyuk]

I am looking into running VBPortal and VBulletin, replacing Postnuke 0.7.1.3 as our corporate intranet.

I really like VBulletin both front and back end and a lot of the hacks on here will be v. useful (eg/ file attachments hacks, archive hacks etc).

My question is - has anyone else used this for their intranet?

And my hack query is - is there any form of organizational / organisational chart hack out there? IF not, is it easy to pull the avatars for each user out of the database + add a hack to make the profile > location a drop down only choice? (thus making php queries and page display possible?)

Many thanks

ps - :banana: that smilie rules :)

[okrogius]

VB will work fine for an intranet.

VB3 (january or so) will provide support for drop down custom profile fields (such as location) automatically out of the box.

[mossyuk]

thats good, will hopefully be making the official switch after xmas, is vb3 a pay for upgrade? if so, may as well wait till then.

Also, do you happen to know of anywhere were I can read a full run down on 'changes' and updates that will be in VB3?

much appreciated + thanks for the reply.

[NTLDR]

If you get vB2 before vB3 is released then it will be a free upgrade provided is released within a year, which it will be :) If not then I *think* the price will be staying the same, however thats not the official answer ;)

Take a look over at http://www.vbulletin.com/forum There using vB3, note thats not the final style for vB3.