Yep - works with 4.0.2 - thanks!

installed -> http://www.twilightrumors.com

Hmm, this does not work the way I envisioned.

Only one forum can be used? I want a promoted article from anywhere not just a designated comment forum to be linked to the thread posts.

Honestly, if the stupid CMS just took you straigt to the thread that without the article page that would be best....

I uninstalled it but have this:

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at the bottom, why?

Amen to that. Thats what vBadvanced did, wish there was an easy way to do it for the vb4 cms

Have you personally tested it yet? We seem to be getting conflicting opinions, and after what I just went through AGAIN while upgrading to 4.0.2 (thanks to vB's great R&D team), I'm hesitant to activate any mods...

Can you confirm if this seems to perform as you expect? Even if the uninstall issue isn't fixed, if it is running solid, that would be helpful to know.

Thanks again, love the mod! (I don't say that much...)
:D Jeff

Thanks.

Nothing for it in AdmipCP > Settings > Options just use it from the front end?

No options. It just does one thing. Installed = on. Uninstalled = off.

This works perfectly fine after upgrading to 4.0.2. The only thing I had to do was edit the Home page to "pull content from Sub-folders." Apparently that was changed by vB, no fault of Carnage-. I have promoted threads to articles, posted to the article, posted to the thread and all works as it's suppose to. :up:

It doesn't do that?

Hm, disappointing. I agree, it should just use the thread automatically, no matter from where you're promoting.. too bad. I hope something like that will come eventually.

Carrlos, did you have it installed and articles promoted before upgrading to 4.0.2? How exactly do you edit the Home page to "pull content from Sub-folders."

Is there a way to make this mod auto promote all threads in a section to articles? Or is there another mod that does this that I could use with this mod?

Yes, it was installed before-hand. Just click on the little "pencil" next to your home page name on the CMS page and it will take you to edit the page. You'll find it on the left-hand side under Section Information. ;)

Yeah, I wish it did that too. I hate having to promote each time. Then you get taken to the screen where you have to choose all the publishing options. It would be nice to have an auto-promote hack that you can preconfigure with your publishing options in advance through the admincp. :up:

<a href="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=231422" target="_blank">https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=231422</a> This mod allows for multiple promotions at once; its not automatic but it'll save you a bunch of time.

I've not verified its compatible, but provided it uses the vbulletin datamanagers for creating the articles, it should be.

Does this mod work in vb4.0.2? EDIT: I see that users have no issues with 4.0.2

Has anyone heard of vB adopting this mod? Seems like the logical solution, rather than the current method of creating two discussion paths.

I looked at it Carnage- and although it's a time saver for setting up a CMS page, it doesn't help in the long run. We need something that will automatically publish articles from new threads created in a predetermined forum (a la vBadvanced). It should also have predetermined publishing options. ;)

I third that! :)

Still having this problem after uninstalling...

Sounds like a great fix.

One question though -- Import Product where?

To the includes/XML/ folder via Filezilla? Or somewhere else? Kind of new to this...

Try the manual: http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/import_product

It WORKS!!! This modification is awesome!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!

And if a noob to admin like me can figure out how to install it, then there is no reason why anyone who wants borg like perfection of symmetry between the forums and the CMS -- shouldn't install it either.

Install it now. :)

EDIT: LOL, I had eventually figured out what was meant by "Import Product", but thanks Videx. I think the manual will come in handy anyway though; didn't have a link to it before.

At the bottom of where?

I'm 99.9% certain that this mod was not responsible for that issue; what other mods do you have installed, have you edited any templates?

Honestly, I did not install any other mods since installing your and when I removed it, it was still there. I'm 90% certain it is responsible ;) No template modifications made.

I really want to get rid of it.

The area I am referring to is at the bottom where it shows who's online.

You probably only just noticed it. ;)

sticky: can you give me a link to your forum?

This mod dosn't make any template changes at all. So if it were the cause its by some strange fluke especially as no-one else seems to have the problem

Is this correct:

I can only set one predefined forum that will keep thread as comments that I promote to article?
Or am I mistaken, or can I promote articles from all forums and the thread will still be used as comments?

let me know, thanx

Any forum.

I recently installed this mod on my site and love it. Thanks a lot dude.

just to clarify:

default behaviour for a promoted thread is to create a new thread in the CMS comments forum that all article comments go into.

This mod makes it so that instead of doing that the thread that was promoted is used for the comments regardless of which forum it was in when it was promoted. It also means that any existing replies to the thread get displayed as comments on the article as soon as its promoted.

Great Mod! Works fine on 4.02.

Hi Carnage! Would a donation prompt development in this direction. On the website I run I would really need unified comments for both promoted posts and promoted blog entries.

Name your price.

Cheers.

At this time, unfortunatly not; I will take a look and see how much work it would be, however i'm unoptermistic as to this working easilly and I've not got the time I think it'll take to get this to work to spend on it at the moment (I have a university masters project due in in a few weeks and have loads of work to do on that, so its not a matter of money.)

If anyone is interested; I added a plugin to this mod for my own forums that 301 redirects the thread to the article. Its not been tested much yet as the CMS is still mods+ only however if anyone is interested I can release the code.

Thanks anyway. One question: would it be okay to take this mod and further modify it to reach our goals? Giving you the proper credit in the code, clearly.

I have to be honest here; any code which implements this for blogs as well would be substantially different from the code here. You are welcome to use my code as a guide, but I doubt it'll be much use to you.

Doesnt work for mine....mine still go into the vbms cms section.

Do you have any other mods installed that effect the CMS?

Realise that the article goes to the CMS, but the comments should be pre populated with the threads replies and any new comments will be posted into the thread that was promoted.

I can't get this mod to work. I don't get any error or anything, when clicking submit the page loads for a while like normal and then the comment just vanish into thin air. Is not displayed in the article and not in the original thread.

Any pointers on what to do would be much appreciated.

Edit: I just had to resubmit the articles and it works perfectly. Kind of annoying, but no big deal :)

Great mod. Marked installed and rated 4/5 :)

The mod cannot work retro-actively unfortunatly; you have to have promoted articles after its installed for it to work.

am i correct in understanding, for vb4.0.2 PL4, I only need to import tthe product, not backup/replace the hook?

correct. Follow the instructions for 4.0.1 and later.

I'll probably remove the old instructioins once 4.0.3 is released.

Thank you - I've installed it, and it works great! Nice job... I hope you can find the will/time to update it along with VB releases.