Looks like a good start. Maybe a vb official will provide the other part. Will be cool if we can work off the cache.

BTW, I've seen some of your mods, you are a great asset to vb.

Thank you :)

I don't think there's need for this plug in. Why don't you just split the thread

So you don't like the idea of saving yourself work if a user splits the thread themselves?

Hi! Where do you put the Fork Thread link when you want it to be in the same place as it is in the screenshot?

It depends on your layout. If you use the default layout it's in the postbit template if you have turned on legacy then you use legacy_postbit.

Just a small note, the &'s in your links should be & for XHTML validation.. :)

Here's the fork with transparant background. :)

Bumping for 3.5 Gold. This looks like a great plugin!

(anyone with Gold got it to work? i'm erring on the side of caution)

Great hack. I've got it working with Gold. Here is a button I created for it to go with the default style.

Works beautifully! Besides the feature mentioned elsewhere in this thread about selecting specific forum destinations during the forking process, one issue I can see coming up is managing fork abuse. I wonder if there's a simple means of throttling the amount of forking a user can do. Clicking Install.

At some point I'll work on bringing this to Gold and adding the forum choice feature. As for the throttling, I think that'd be too complicated. The usual requirement of X seconds between postings, which is configurable in the admincp applies here, if that's any help.

I love that image. Any chance of getting the PSD file so we can insert custom colors?

It's telling me it's an invalid file type.

ETA: I sent you a PM. Also, how can we remove the image from showing up for PMs?

Does Gold version of this plugin will have some new features or its good to go as Gold. Is it working with vB350Gold ? Thanks


EDIT: Its working like a charm on vB350GOLD. :)

[QUOTE ]Also, how can we remove the image from showing up for PMs?[/QUOTE]

Making the temaplte edit with like below will show the image only while viewing the threads. :)

i know this feature from the old bbs-times... :) named "fup" -> follow up to...

great...!!! missed that a lot... thx...

be great to get the psd file so we can alter the colour of the button to match the other styles we may have :D

Weaver was kind enough to send me the PSD. I zipped it and added to the original post.

I want to know where in postbit would be the best place to add this coding ??

QUESTION:

I don't know if this is possible, but, I've noticed that when you fork a post, it will end up in the wrong forum considering the topic. E.G:

In my welcome forum, some new guy starts a thread saying hi, so then we slowly start going off topic, say someone decides to fork a post so that we can discuss the off-topic-stuff in a new thread, it will go to the same forum it was forked from, in my case, introdouction forum.

Is there a way that you can ask the person who forked the post where he/she thinks the thread should be put in? I don't know if this might require moving permissions though.

It's not a bug, because it's working as designed, but it is a suggestion.

Do you think you can do that?

This is great, thanks so much for your work on it.

I look forward to your next update with the forum selection ability!

Hey Gilbert - any updates on the next release? My membership is going to grow pretty soon and it'd be great to let people control the forking destinations. ;)

YES! That would be fantastic! :nervous:

Would also very much like to see the user-selectable-posting-forum ability!

This one is great, thank you! :)

How about a way to restrict "forking" to the admin?

just installed it-i'm loving it and so are my members. thanks so much :)

ps-for the next version, choosing fork destination would be great ;)

Any updates on the extended version?

no updates? i would love also to see the user-selectable-posting-forum ability!... it would be really good

Anyone get this working under 3.6.1?

Edit: it's working. I also formally requested formal support in another thread.

<a href="showthread.php?t=127919" title="vBulletin.org Forum - Mod 127919">Here's the formal request I created.</a> The main feature addition I'm looking for is picking the destination forum.

Thousands of suggestion to have "fork destination feature" is SO NATURAL for this add-on, that I vote for this idea with all my hands .-)

The second very natural feature would be to have link (or at least note) in original post that it has been forked. Otherwise it will go to uncontrolled number of forked threads from one post which makes this GREAT Addon dangerous and then unusefull.

Third suggestion: maybe owner should remain the same without forker to be able change the text; this will be the same as moderator copy post to new thread (without editing the post - maybe only title).

Plus - Great hack - installed - thank you GilbertZ

Edit: have to uninstalled because I am afraid of uncontrolled number of per-post forks.
P.S.: two requested features and you will make this hack of the month .-) and hundreds of users

This hack needs to be updated for 3.6.x. Can someone please pick up this cool hack?

Hey Guys,

Been very busy and haven't upgraded main site to latest vb. Working on it though then I'll update this hack and check out the requests

Awesome! I love this modification and I look forward to using on it 3.6x (thanks for this)

Is this compatible with v3.6.4?

Ok, I just tried and it DOES work with v3.6.4.

Does this work for 3.6.8?

And where in the navbar do i put the code?