Sweet!! Please consider the following suggestions.

Add something that displays the username of the person you submitted the link.
Give a count of how many links that user has submitted.
Have these two options editable by any usergroup that has permission to edit a link.
If a link owner (the person who submitted it) changes, have it change the count of total links that user has submitted.

Quick question. When viewing the main links index, it lists out the categories, and for each displays the number of sub-cats within, as well as the number of links. This link number does not include links which are in the sub-cats. So where we've set up some categories which will probably not have any links, but only sub-cats, it displays zero links. This is accurate, but I'd rather (on my forum) have that number reflect the total of links plus the links within the sub-categories. What would I need to change?

Did that make any sense? :)

It makes sense but was discussed a few weeks ago (go back a few dozen posts) when this feature was added - the consensus at the time was that people preferred only seeing the count going down one level. Let me think about this.

1. Add something that displays the username of the person you submitted the link.

this is easy - just edit the links_linkbit template and include the variable $linkusername somewhere sensible.

2. Give a count of how many links that user has submitted.

if you want this to appear in the main display, it will require a new database table, to avoid having to read the entire links table each time round

3. Have these two options editable by any usergroup that has permission to edit a link.

how about "change owner to editor" - I don't think an editor should be able to assign the link to anyone?

4. If a link owner (the person who submitted it) changes, have it change the count of total links that user has submitted]

yes but see (2)

views?

Beta version of 1.20 released, including moderation of new links/categories. See first post in this thread.

Moderation is turned on/off via the admin page, including specifying which user groups can moderate (and therefore are exempt from having their own posts moderated).

Appreciate feedback.

Ahhh, sneaky! You got the upgrade finished while I edited all my templates! ;) I'm going to upgrade, and then double back to make the template changes again. Most is just things specific to how I prefer things laid out, but did you really mean to put the forumjump into the header? Shouldn't it be in the footer, like the rest of vb pages?

Thanks for all your work, Andrew. I'll let you know how it works on my end.

As I mentioned in my PM - very cool new changes AndrewD :D and thanks for the integration!

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I can see why most folks would want it to list only the links within the category, and not within nested sub-cats. In fact I have another site using different software that is set up just the opposite, and it isn't appropriate for that site. In this one situation, however, I'd prefer to be able to switch it 'round for my forum only. Most of our main cats aren't going to have their own links, just sub-cats, so I want people to be able to tell that there ARE links in there, even if down a level or two. I'll see if I can figure it out. :)

Andrew, got the upgrade run, and the secondary usergroup permissions appears to work just great. I'm logged in as my regular self, and can access the admin stuff, even though admin is my secondary ug. Thanks!! Just what we needed!

Having trouble with the moderation however. Perhaps I'm missing something. I have a regular user who has submitted a test link for me. But the link becomes immediately available and viewable, even to someone not logged in at all.

Great work though. Thanks!

thanks..

I put the forumjump in the header as we'd redesigned our site this way - people were missing the box when it was in the footer.