Hello Psionic Vision,

One of the forums refuses to list.

It does list when search is allowed too, but that should be disabled since it's a huge off topic forum.

Thanks. Very nice.

Has anyone posting simple instructions on how this works for end users?

Great work Psionic Vision :)

Is it possible you could create a very slight variation of this hack so I could use a url to exclude certain forums form the forum index? Eg:

http://vbulletin.com/forum/index.php?&exclude=10,28,12

Which would then exclude forums 10, 28, and 12 from showing on the forum home/index page.

That would be a HUGE help, please please please consider it :)

Edit: Meant to say so it's not permanent, just that those forum IDs will not show when that particular url/link is followed.

Ok, help a newbie please. When running the query, I got this error:

Any idea how to fix it?

Hello rlharp5375,

You need to create that field first. Have you installed the hack already?

It appears a forum also needs to be searchable for a usergroup or it won't be added to the exclusion list. Does it use part of the advanced search code?

Is there a 3.7 working version of this hack yet? or coming?

It works already with 3.7

Best regards
hj

Have the same Problem need this hack absolutly! Is there anyone who can resolve this problem?

Just installed this. After the initial install, the list of forums wouldn't populate, but saving the display order as suggested fixed the issue.

Works great.... thanks for the hack!!

still doesn't work for me and it used to work fine. Does it need to be reinstalled if you add a new forum?

Get this work need no help any more

I get this error message when trying to actually select the forums for exclusion

Database error in vBulletin 3.7.0:

Invalid SQL:
UPDATE usertextfield SET
excludeforumids = '18'
WHERE userid = 1;

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'excludeforumids' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Request Date : Saturday, May 3rd 2008 @ 08:03:18 PM
Error Date : Saturday, May 3rd 2008 @ 08:03:18 PM
Script : http://www.mysite.org/profile.php?do=updateoptions
Referrer : http://www.mysite.org/profile.php?do=editoptions
Classname : vb_database
MySQL Version : 5.0.45-community

I am guessing this means I need to manually add a field or column somewhere but I am clueless on how to do it - does anyone know?

[sql]ALTER TABLE usertextfield ADD excludeforumids MEDIUMTEXT[/sql]
But the column should have been created automatically upon product install ...

edit:
post in wrong thread sorry .

thank you, that fixed it! I don't know why it didnt take at first - I followed all the instructions - but that query fixed it - thanks!

Hi,

Can I make this hack controllable only by admin
and in conjunction I want to control forum list based on different domains,but the database remains one

Thanks

Not working on 3.8.2. I have ran the query multiple times and it confirms that the rows have been affected.

However, in the UserCP in the menu there is only one choice: "[Reset Exclusion]" and selecting it does nothing.
Hopefully somebody can offer a remedy.

The new version work better, so you might want to download it now. It works on 3.8.x, too.

Same issue here, any solution?

trying to run the query on this hack.

Get the following error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@xxxxxxx.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.


any idea's?

Sorry if this has been asked and answered; I did search :-).

Is this mod compatible with vBulletin V4 systems?

I have a ton of forums (unavoidable) and vBulletin appears to expect you to have a focused system since "New Posts" will show you ALL the new postings across ALL the forums!

My users are hoping to narrow things down a bit, and this might be the perfect answer.

Doesn't seem to, i've just tried it on my own board running 4.2.2 and it just throws up a bunch of error messages when you go into general settings.

If anyone could help to fix this mod for 4x i'd be eternally grateful :)