Well, hello there, young lady. ;)

Any idea how to fix my problem posted above? ;)

Bob, sorry to learn that you haven't got this sorted out. Quite honestly, easiest approach is to me have admin access to your site.

PM with the details is on it's way, sir. ;)

And thank you. ;)

I'm assuming that you've uploaded the autocreate_plugin.xml plugin and you can see from your VB admincp that it is active and tied to ldm_addlink_inserted.

The thread creation is *only* triggered if these conditions are met:

1) The new entry is given (explicitly or automatically) an "associated forum".
2) The forum is real and open (i.e. you've not set it up as a *category* forum or a *linked* forum* in the VB admin/forum pages)
3) The user who is creating the new LDM entry has permission to post in that forum

By default, LDM does not automatically associate new links with one of your forums, so by default, this *extra* will not do anything.

Further, by default, only admins can assign an associated forum - for them, the *Add Link* form will include a selection list titled "Parent Forum".

If you want to change this so that new entries from all users will have a default associated forum, you can do one of the following:

- Set *default_forumid* on the LDM admin/settings page to one of your forums. By itself, this will associate all new entries in all categories with the selected forum. So if this is all that you do, everytime a user creates a new entry in LDM, there will be a new thread in that forum.

- Edit one or all of your categories and set its *Parent Forum*. This will ensure that all new entries added to that category will be associated with the selected forum. So if this is all you do, each time a user creates a new entry in LDM, the new thread will be created in the forum that you've just associated with the category

- Give one or more of your usergroups *can_set_permissions* permission, on the LDM Admin/Permissions page. This will allow users in these groups to decide for themselves the forum with which to associate the new entry, an dtherefore which forum will contain the new thread. (This permission allows users to do a couple of other things too, so take care if you don' trust your users.)

See section 2.2 of the online manual

As admin, do the following:

- On the main LDM permissions page, *deny* all/selected usergroups permisison to upload files, i.e. take away *can_upload_files* permission, Also take away *can_select_category* permission

- In the category/categories where you want them to be able to upload, Edit Category, select third tab (User Group Permissions), and give them back *Can_upload_files* permission.

This permission will apply to the chosen category and *by default* to its subcategories. If you don't want it to apply to the subcategories, repeat the process in the subcategories and take the permission away again.

The basic point is that many of the permissions are inherited from the base level down through the tree structure.

I want to thank Andrew here in the thread for all his help in fixing my mistake earlier. The support is fantastic and the best I have seen here on the org in a long time. Thank you, sir, and keep up the great work. ;)

Benj, the attached plugin will list the user's five most recent entries in her profile.

To use it, you need to do the following:
a) Create a new single line text profile field called "My Recent LDM Entries"
b) Import the attached xml as a new plugin

You will see the latest entries from users who leave the My Recent LDM Entries profile field blank

I'll integrate it properly into LDM with the next release.

got it to work, thank you!! i wish all hack authors were as good with support as you are :)

I fixed that now. My problem was I had also Installed ecdownloads and I did not like it, so I removed the plugin but not the files. I had two dowloads.php and thats why following the instructions did not work.

Thanks
I'm sorry I am just not seeing the 3rd step. I go to Admin Cpanel, choose catagories and the 3rd panel down is access permissions, but when I click edit it takes me to the forum permission editing (part of vb) not the LDM permission(s) editing.

Sorry, I've confused you.

These inherited permissions are set in the individual category edits, not in the admincp.

In LDM itself (not the LDM admin), go to the category of interest, then Edit Category, then you'll find that there are three tabs across the top. The third, at the far right of the screen is 'User Group Permissions'