A-freaking-men! I'm dying for an auto-promote that will bring (in the case of my site) the latest news right up front for both visitors and current members just logging in.

Thanks, Carnage, for this mod. This will greatly simplify things on my end. Like pretty much everyone else said, why this wasn't at least an option from the get-go is beyond me. That's about as intuitive as it gets.

Nominated ...

The way I see it, vBulletin IS a forum software and the CMS is addon functionality ... Discussions should be THE FIRST priority ...

vBulletin should have not created the mess of having 'Article comments' in the first place ... Discussions on all articles should take place within their own unique threads in their respective forums ... If vB is obsessed with showing the number of comments to the article, it should use the number of replies ...

Essentially, this mod would not have been required if vBulletin would have done it's job well ...

I agree totally. Add-ons should not take members or visitors away from the core, which is the forums.

OK, what am I doing wrong? I've re-read this thread three times, and I just can't figure it out. If it's just importing a product, then something seriously isn't working for me. When I try to import it to "./includes/xml/product.xml," I get "Invalid File Specified." I've deleted and re-downloaded the XML file from here to no avail.

What am I missing?

You may be taking the instructions too literally. If the .xml file is in your downloads folder, you want to import it from there. And it ain't called 'product.xml' - it's currently called 'product-imhotek_useoriginalthread alpha 2.xml'.

Doh!

I was trying to import hooks_vbcms.xml. :o


Thanks!

Do you install both xmls?

no, the hooks xml is only required for older versions of vb4; if you are running 4.0.2 you just import the product.

<a href="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=231422" target="_blank">https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=231422</a> adds promote to the inline mod tools and works really well with this mod. Recommended for anyone looking for a quick and easy way to promote 100's of threads.

Any way for this to keep or somehow make use of the thread prefixes of promoted articles?

With this mod allowing threads from any forum to become an article, when you have a root category showing all recent articles contained within it, things get confusing.

For example on a news forum one might have forums for various geographical locations, and on the CMS one root section on the front page to show all the recent articles contain within it's sub categories, but without prefixes people have to click on an article to find out what sub category it is in.

Even just transferring the prefix into the article title automatically when clicking on the promote button would be awesome. People sometimes forget to manually add it when promoting and it causes confusion and requires people to go back and fix these errors.

Can someone confirm this works with 4.0.3? Thanks!

Installed and working!!!

Confirmed works.

Thanks! Upgrading.............. ;)

Hi, the Mod is fantastic. Thanks!

A quick question: is there any way to set it to display "0 Comments" after articles that have not had any following forum posts?

Does it do that for articles posted in the cms? (ie not ones promoted from the forum) If it does, or there is an option to, i'll look into getting it to work the same with this mod.

This is brilliant.
Absolutly brilliant.

Why vB could not add this as a standard feature is beyond belief.

Thanks Carnage, this has helped heaps.
Nominated for MOTM :D

First thank you for the nice MOD, i already get the same problem with Array and i am using Host Gator. I do not know what the problem is if anybody find the problem with API please let us all know i am sure it is very simple.

This is on the to do list :)

Simply Brilliant Mod. Will have my IT support install this for me!

Exactly, EXACTLY, why in the hell do the people at Vbulletin not understand this.

I'm taking another look at this mod but when I had it installed last that is not how it worked or maybe I was using it wrong.

Don't you need to have a specified forum for comments? As in, you can't just promote any thread from any forum and that original thread will serve for comments?

Excellent, I've been looking for this...
should be default
nominated and rated 5 star :)
thanks

I've also installed and love it so far, thank you for this mod.

You still need the cms comments forum; comment threads for articles that are created normally go in there. This only effects the comment threads for articles that were promoted from the forums.

Nominated

Thank you.

thank you, installed

GREAT mod. love it.

Installed and nominated!

I disabled this mod in the product manager before updating to 4.0.4 and when I went to re-enable I received this error message......

Since I already have the CMS enabled, I am unwilling to click the "enable all these products" link for fear of creating a duplicate type bug/scenario......

I love this mod. Any advice?

Crud. Even with the mod disabled, users can ad comments to an article promoted from the forum in the CMS, but then those comments won't show up on the CMS, even though the comment count is correct.

I'll have to think of a work around.

Will there be 4.0.4 support on this mod?

well, I ignored the error and re-enabled, so far everything seems fine.

You can vote for this to be fixed by the vbulletin guys here: http://tracker.vbulletin.com/browse/VBIV-952

Issue has been open for a while. I appreciate the effort the mod creator put into this, but it really should be something that's there by default.

Please vote.

I voted and think that everyone with this mod installed should vote too. I'm surprised that there are comments there in support of having this built into vB but none of the authors of the comments have voted. :rolleyes:

Sooooo.........

Can anyone confirm 4.0.4? ;)

just voted, but need improvements ... :)

Since the "bug" has been labeled scrubbed, I doubt voting on it will help. A new bug report as a major item, then voted on, would be better.

It says 'scrubbed' simply means 'verified', not 'fixed' or 'forgotten'.

I admit I thought I was voting for a feature, not a bugfix. All bugs should be fixed, regardless of votes.

4.0.4 compatibility confirmed. No need to disable the hack. Just run the normal upgrade process. As usual, make a db backup first to be on the safe side. ;)

Sorry, I've been away this weekend.

@wcguy: it requires the CMS to work, thats fairly obvious, if you are sure its enabled (they probably did something annoying like changing the productid in 4.0.4) you can remove the dependancy by editing the original thread mod. Then it'll re-enable just fine.

EDIT: added my own support to the bug report :)

A new bug has appeared since the release of version 4.0.4
When we reply to a topic we get this kind of error before being redirected:

If I disable this mod only, no more bug.

This appears only if we reply in advanced mode, not in quick reply.