A-freaking-men! I'm dying for an auto-promote that will bring (in the case of my site) the latest news right up front for both visitors and current members just logging in.

Thanks, Carnage, for this mod. This will greatly simplify things on my end. Like pretty much everyone else said, why this wasn't at least an option from the get-go is beyond me. That's about as intuitive as it gets.

Nominated ...

The way I see it, vBulletin IS a forum software and the CMS is addon functionality ... Discussions should be THE FIRST priority ...

vBulletin should have not created the mess of having 'Article comments' in the first place ... Discussions on all articles should take place within their own unique threads in their respective forums ... If vB is obsessed with showing the number of comments to the article, it should use the number of replies ...

Essentially, this mod would not have been required if vBulletin would have done it's job well ...

I agree totally. Add-ons should not take members or visitors away from the core, which is the forums.

OK, what am I doing wrong? I've re-read this thread three times, and I just can't figure it out. If it's just importing a product, then something seriously isn't working for me. When I try to import it to "./includes/xml/product.xml," I get "Invalid File Specified." I've deleted and re-downloaded the XML file from here to no avail.

What am I missing?

You may be taking the instructions too literally. If the .xml file is in your downloads folder, you want to import it from there. And it ain't called 'product.xml' - it's currently called 'product-imhotek_useoriginalthread alpha 2.xml'.

Doh!

I was trying to import hooks_vbcms.xml. :o


Thanks!

Do you install both xmls?

no, the hooks xml is only required for older versions of vb4; if you are running 4.0.2 you just import the product.

<a href="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=231422" target="_blank">https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=231422</a> adds promote to the inline mod tools and works really well with this mod. Recommended for anyone looking for a quick and easy way to promote 100's of threads.

Any way for this to keep or somehow make use of the thread prefixes of promoted articles?

With this mod allowing threads from any forum to become an article, when you have a root category showing all recent articles contained within it, things get confusing.

For example on a news forum one might have forums for various geographical locations, and on the CMS one root section on the front page to show all the recent articles contain within it's sub categories, but without prefixes people have to click on an article to find out what sub category it is in.

Even just transferring the prefix into the article title automatically when clicking on the promote button would be awesome. People sometimes forget to manually add it when promoting and it causes confusion and requires people to go back and fix these errors.