i deactivate this hack and it works perfect !!!

thx

Looks great!

Phalynx, you are a genius, but, the idea of making a social group into a forum defeats the whole purpose of a social group which is more intimate. Albeit, your code is perfect, the concept is not. I applaud your efforts but have since disabled the mod.

So if I have a board running 3.8.1, that has never had Social Forums installed, can I install this as new?

Only members of a group can see the forum for that group. I think vBulletin made a huge mistake by NOT doing exactly this to begin with. The stock way is like going back to vB version 1.

Phalynx,

Many, many thanks for this.

Will be downloading and installing later this week.
Kudos for your terrific support.

Yes.

didn't realize that, thanks for the clarification. This Mod is a great

Is there any way to mask the creator of a Social Forum from the "View Forum Leaders" page (/vbroot/showgroups.php). Social Forum creators are listed as "Moderators", even though in Admin CP they are not listed as a Primary or Additional user in the Moderators usergroup at Admin CP -> Usergroups -> Usergroup Manager.

Even if the "Viewable on Show Groups" option is set to No for the entire Moderators usergroup and Registered Users usergroup, Social Forum creators are still listed in "View Forum Leaders".

Thank you.

I am also experiencing an error that had previously been found in an older version, the "Invalid Title Specified" error:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=202
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=409

This behavior is happening to me as well for 2.0

SocialForums adds the group leaders as normal, default moderators to the forum. How vBulletin displays them is not in the range of this modification. You need to disable the option to display Moderators on "View Forum Leaders". It's not a usergroup setting.


Uhm, I thought this has been fixed. Will take a look.

i have a question

With activated option to add owner as a moderator the transfering leads to removing all moderators of the linked forum

what this means?

That means that if you defined an own moderator for that socialforum, that moderator will be removed and replaced by the new owner of the group.

is this something good or bad?

Working great... Can we add a way that when a new member joins the group it also subscribes them to the forum. My forums doesn't get alot of posts so we could easiler miss one but if it emails all the members when a new thread is posted that would be awesome.

Interesting Mod.

Is Important to Add Options for it, like One to Stablish Usergroups and/or Users that Can Create and Associate a Forum for their Social Groups, and to Set a Maximum of Forums to be Able to Create.

Also an Option to Set Which Groups can Have Forums would be a Nice Option, so that Admins can Evaluate if is Important or Not to Allow a Forum to be Created for that Social Group(s).

It'd Also be Important to Set the Option of Minimum Number of Users in the Social Groups on a Mod's Option on the Admin Control Panel.

Only Admins Would Know and Should Control the Way their Boards Should Grow on Forums Structure Not Users.

The Idea is Right and Very Useful, but is Yet Too Open for Users to Waste the Boards Resources without Admin Control. :(

My Best Regards.

:)

I have installed them as new on two boards running 3.8.1 with no previous install, and it is working beautifully!

Question -- I am considering installing this add-on. A number of my user clubs already have forums. Is there a way that I can associate pre-existing forums with newly created social groups under this hack? (In other words, any query that I can easily run?)

Also, did you manage to fix the problem identified in post #50?

can you move threads from the regular forum into these social group forums ?

Yes. You can also run a manual query to assign a groupid to a socialgroup.

Simply replace X with the forumid, and Y with the groupid, of the two that you wish to link. Setting the forumid to 0 removes any forum associated with a socialgroup, allowing that socialgroup to create a new forum.

Question -- Does the query on forumdisplay (to generate a notice linking a forum to its matching socialgroup) occur on all forums, or just socialforums?

I just want the social groups to show up in the drop down when moving a thread , so in the future when an event is posted on the board staff can move it to the regional social group

Interesting option, will think about it.

That is not true. You can set already usergroup permissions. With that, you can permit only admins the possibility to create forums. That way, YOU decide which Group will have a forum.

As I already told, I'm working on this.

On all, because I have to find out if this forum is linked to a social group. For next version I will eliminate this query by storing this info in the forumcache.

Of course, as the create forums are regular forums, nothing special. This hack allows forums to be associated with groups.

Hi,

Love this Mod. We consider it essential. Excellent job!

Issue:
We want each Group Starter (Leader) to moderate his own social forum.

I see how that is enabled, and so far, so good.

However, the default Moderator permissions for Group Leaders are not quite what we want. They are more encompassing than we want to grant, so we want to dial the permissions down a little.

How do I set the default Moderator permissions for Group Leaders?
I know I can change them after the fact, but that still can cause dangerous situations.
The default settings give the Group Leaders too much power across the boards.
I'm hoping there's an easy way to set default Social Group Moderator permissions so we don't have to manually edit each one.

Thanks in advance.

Insted for the notcie that this is a social forum on top of a social thread hoiw can i keep the social group header on the thread pages as well

on your install instructions you left off the admin page

A required field called sendpm is missing or has an invalid value. Message when trying to create a forum

This dont add any forums to the main forum index correct? , i just want the current discussions to act as threads

[high]* DieselMinded disables mod waiting for support :([/high]

The only way is to edit the file includes/functions_socialforums.php
Go to "function SaveModerator()" and check all lines regarding the permissions.

Not possible.

Which Admin page? What are you expecting there?

[QUOTE=DiesellMinded;1764324]A required field called sendpm is missing or has an invalid value. Message when trying to create a forum
This does NOT come from SocialForums. Check which other modification needs such a field.

This Mod what is described on all pages: It adds a REAL STANDARD DEFAULT FORUM. Not more, not less. With that, a Social Group can use REAL THREADS instead of the crappy Discussions.

i get a

Message when trying to create a forum

I was letting you know that you left a page off your instructions , the page that goes into the admin directory .

So this adds 1 forum to the main forum index and all the club forums are under the social groups pages ? or does it add all the social group forums as child forums on the main forum index , ? I want this to clean up my main forum index and move all the local and regional things into the social groups

is there a way to make it where i can have each forum listed in different parts of my forum according to the category it is in.

for example a basketball team social group like the rockets would go in an nba forum and the nfl team forum would go in a nfl forum.

To get support, you will need to click "Mark as Installed".


It adds 1 Forum to a parent forum you have to enter in the AdminCP.


Currently not. You need to move that forums manually after creation.

/me undownloads not quite what i had in mind

Excellent mod.

Didn't realise you released it for 3.8 already, cheers Phalanx! Tagged and will install later this week. :D

We are developing a gaming community website for gaming clans. We want to offer them there own custom forum with moderation functions etc.

Is it possible to give every clan (social group in the forum) to possibility to create there own sub forums?

If yes, what kind of impact will this have on the server load etc?

Thanks in advance!

Re: whether queries are made on all forums:

But this is only if you enable the SocialForum Notices, right? If you disable the notices, there should be no queries at all?

Ok, it's installed and ready to be activated but your instructions don't mention the file in the admincp directory (in the zip file). What does it do and do we need it? I uploaded it but only because it was there.

I asume it provides the page under vBulletin Options voor this mod. But that's just a quick guess.

This depends on how many clans you have. Each group will have one additional forum. If you enable the option to display notices in each social forum, you will get 1 additional query on each forum. If you enable permissions for private groups, you will have 1 additional query.


Yes.

Yes, it's the file that is beeing accessed via AdminCP/SocialForums. It contains the discussions->forum converter

I need help, please. I have a social group and created a forum after setting the correct permissions; however, the forum does not show up where it should, but I can still access it from the "Visit the forum of this group." link in the group's main page. How can I get it to show the forum where it is when browsing the forums? It is a Private group, but I am the Group Leader, so I should be able to see the forum without having to go through the group's page every time. Thanks in advance!

EDIT: It might help if I put the "Visibility of social forums. This can only be set for new forums and does not modify existing one." to ON.

~ Sean

Great you sorted this out :)