You're welcome, shuangddr.

Installed on 4.04pl1 ... thank you ... :)

Seems to work well in initial testing and was something we were looking for after transferring a lot of threads from forums to articles under v4 vbCMS .... :up:

We wanted all the old thread references to get redirected to the vbCMS replacement articles when people clicked on them in posts, instead of having to even think about goinf through every post and changing them.

Question: Under the option to select just specific forums, if I choose a category forum ID that has a series of sub forums under it, will all those sub forums inherit this capability automatically?

It sure would save me a lot of time if they would ... :D

Regards,
Badger

Unfortunately, currently sub forums aren't included automatically if you add a parent forum ID to the list.

Thanks .. :)

If I leave it blank so that ALL forums have the link option, but restrict the usergroup to Admin ONLY, then Admin status usergroups only will be able to see that option... correct?

Finally, see attached pic ...

I notice that when I redirect a thread with the mod, that it now appears as a forum thread with a sticky indicator on it, but it's not actually a stick thread (no separator). Is that the way it's designed?

By the way, I use this custom mod to separate stickies from normal threads, although I'm not sure it makes any difference to my last question, I thought I'd mention it.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=249677

I use this one because it doesn't generate any in-line errors like Atakan KOC's mod mentioned earlier.

Regards,
Badger

drat, if i turn off member cannot see thread content in forum permissions, they can still be redirected!

i was going to use this for vip members links

Hey, is the Thread Link Type set to Direct Link or a Redirect on your site? If I have it set to first option then thread is directly pointing to the external location. If I have it set as a redirect, and switch off Can View Thread Content then redirection is stopped with a vBulletin alert message.

Which one is your case?

That's right, only selected usergroups are allowed to point new threads to external links. All the others continue to submit new threads the usual way.

I wanted to highlight the custom threads somehow by adding some sort of an icon next to their titles. I used the same one as for sticky threads but you can always customize that further in the template directly. Redirected threads aren't moved to the top like the sticky ones, (unless you also mark them as sticky) so no need for additional separators.

That's a nice mod suggestion, I tried it and apparently it works fine with my mod with no extra fixes required.

Thanks Alex ... :)

Again, great mod and will significantly help us re-structure how we handle our on-line member libraries that have been forum based, moving them to vbCMS article based, doing so transparently .... :up:

Regards,
Badger

ps: Sent PayPal donation ....

its ok now, ive fixed it! :) yep needed to be on redirect and not direct - my bad

I'm glad it worked out for you,
and really appreciate the donation, thanks!

If anything else, just let me know :)