going to give this one a try on 3.7 only thing I can think of to limit this to certain usegroups is to modify the modifyoptions template with a condtional

<if condition="($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==xx)"

Something I used to put custom sheilds in front of users names. Unless I missed something and there is already a option for this.

It would be awesome if someone could upgrade this to work with 3.7

It does work for 3.7, at least, it works on my board ok.

Can't get this to work either :(
It does show up in my settings, but says [Reset Exclusion]

I did run both queries above, but no luck.
Anyone?

*EDIT - FIXED*

I reloaded the forum settings for one forum and from that moment all forums showed up in the list. :)

Hi, is there a way to activate this mod on vbadvanced (new messages module). ? Actually vbadvanced is showing all new messages (for all forums even if user have choice to hide some forums.)

Installed! Also using the forumdisplay enhancement.

Installed and working great on 3.7.4 patch level 1.

Thanks!

Working fine for 3.8 RC1!

Works for the most part, but sometimes blocked forums show up in the new posts screen
Anyone else having this problem?

How to add this to forum lists including forum home? Kind of like this except for forums.

Thank you

Is there a 3.7 or 3.8 version for this out yet?

If you read a few posts up you'll find:
I also just tried this out on 3.7 and I can confirm it does work :up:

Great thanks.

When I try to Execute SQL Query I get this:

You are not authorized to execute SQL queries

So my question is, is there a way I can just add one category of the forum to be selected as an option of forums to turn off?

Go to your config.php fileon the server, find this:

Replace the Xs with your user ID number.

Thank you! This works great so far.

Super work as usual, and most useful.

Testing this out as it has been requested by my users.

I have this working fine on 3.7.5. However, my forum uses categories which are hidden due to navigation menus (I have a tabbed navigation similar to here at vb.org).

If a category is set to "Forum is Active = no" it is removed from the list in the UserCP, as well as all forums that are a child of the category (regardless of their visibility). I understand the logic behind that, but need to work around this limitation.

I'm pretty sure I need to work around the following code during the build of the excludable list:-
Logically that's "if the current forum is is not accessible, skip it an try the next one." Commenting this out isn't going to help as forum permissions are a crucial part of this building process (of course).

Any help on what I need to do to modify this to allow hidden categories. (not bothered about hidden forums btw).

TIA

Forums aren't loading in the options textbox. This is the forum and this is what loads:
Most of the other forums are set to be excludable but aren't showing.

EDIT: Never mind, it was an inheritance issue. A poster above actually touched on it.

how do I know
what the table prefix is that is defined in the config.php to change the pfx too?

When I look in my config file it says table prefix = ' '

nothing is there???

Oh I have not marked installed yet because I am not finished getting it to work:)

Works great on vbulletin 3.8!!!

That means you don't have a table prefix - so just delete PFX and run the command

Has anyone been able to fix this? Thanks!

hi, its possible to fix this mod to work on CMPS vbadvanced latest topics module on index?

Actually this mod works ok on all pages except on module latest topics (vbadvanced)

Thanks

Can someone just add an option to the forum manager for each forum

Include Posts From This Forum In New Posts / Latest Posts Search - YES or NO

Can you set it to where users cannot select certain forums?

_____ So, I tried installing this. Problem is, I wonder if something is broken.

_____ First thing I did, after installing it, is to set the "excludable" field in the "forum" table to my liking for each row (which corresponds to each forum). Thing is, it doesn't seem to make any difference. I tried it with a forum that CAN be excluded, and with a forum that CAN'T, or so I thought. But in both cases, it was still possible to exclude the forum.

_____ Do those settings not apply to Super Administrators? That was the only account where I tested this. Or is this a bug?

_____ Also this is slightly off-topic from what I said earlier, but is there a way to prevent certain user groups from using this feature? Or are template edits and just hiding that option the closest that I can get to achieving this?

___ You should be able to, but that function seems to be broken for some reason.

Hi there,

Is there anyway to still show the forum on forum home but not to show up in searches, get new posts or unread posts.

I just want to be able to let members click into the forum if they want to view it but not have the threads and posts shown in unread posts / todays posts etc.

Thanks

anyone know of a vb4 version of this/something similiar?

A vB4 verson of this hack would indeed be most welcome...

I am running this on vBulletin 4 and it has been working fine but I have a few issues

1) I added a new forum and its not being displayed in the list to be able to block it. How do I get the new forum to show?

2) People are upset they are seeing results in excluded forums in their searches, how do I get this to work with all searches?

Thank you for your help!

Eh, it doesn't work with vB4, it needs to be rewritten for it. Please, rewrite it for vB4.

Does this actually work with vbseo enabled?

I am using the SocialForums mod, and I also use the selective forum filter mod
my problem is that I can't get the social forums to show up in the list of forums to be excluded. I have run the back end php query that is supposed to make all your forums be excludable, and it still didn't affect the social forums. this was the query:

To enable "can be excluded" in all forums, run this query:
UPDATE PFXforum SET excludable = 1
To disable "can be excluded" in all forums, run this query:
UPDATE PFXforum SET excludable = 0
In both cases, PFX must be replaced with the actual table prefix that you have defined in config.php.
If you have not defined a prefix, remove PFX from the queries.
After you run either one of these queries, you must then open and save any one forum for the forum cache to be updated.


I have no table prefix for my tables, so i removed the PFX and ran it plain. Does the social forums mod add any special table prefix to the tables it creates?

Any other ideas as to why they won't show up and allow themselves to be excluded? The groups are a combination of public and private groups.

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Actually, I went to this thread again, and then I read the first post where it had the query to run if you have more than 64 forums - I ran that, and now it works! All boards show up and are excludable! Woohoo!

Did this ever get re-written for vB4? I have done a search but can not see the vB4 version.