LOL cause you are not already busy enough right?? ;)

Well if you come up with something, let me know.

Thanks :)

will this affect the welcome module for vBadvanced cms ?

No, it will not.

great stuff!

[high]* GrendelKhan{TSU clicks install. ^^
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Question:

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Is it possible to set certain forums to DEFAULT as opted-out (excluded), but have it so enabled usergroup still has option to opt-IN that forum/s??
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I want my RSS news forums opted-out/excluded BY DEFAULT... but be ABLE to have users still be able to ADD/OPT-IN if they want to.
(Right now, as far as I can tell, its only possible to do the reverse, is that correct?)

otherwise, relatively few users will ever opt-out even though they were probably prefer to....simply cause most people are lazy or don't realize they can (or just don't bother to customize), imo.

(I like to my default settings play to majority and let "customizers" do their thing. Not have news feeds in the New Posts is much better for most, imo :))

bump? :) :nervous:

This is not too usable for end users, so I don't think anyone will do that.

The permission system doesnt propagate down the forum permissions, ex: if you set do not exclude forums at the top of a forum section, all forums will receive "do not exclude" even if you change individual forums under that section to "allow exclude"

is there a way to fix this, as it is, if you have a very large forum setting each individual subforum under that section is extremely time consuming and imo. not worth the efforts.

Additionally when you add this feature it clashes with the new post reporting option in such a way that you see "no. of new posts" but when you click on it the search returns nothing.

This hack is not very useful in its current form (uninstall)

That must be a hack? Because I don't have anywhere on my site that shows a number of new posts. If that's the case, then your hack will need to be modified to take into account opt'ed out forums.

It is a hack and probably this one.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=96522

The permission is Can exclude Forums from "Get New Posts".
If you set this to No for a Category, but Yes for subforums of this category, the category will not show up in the listbox - that's correct and actaully working as designed.
vBulletin search behaves the same way - set "Can search Forum" for a category to No, but Yes for subforums - it will not be shown on the search form.
Or set "Can View"=No for a category but Yes for subforums - the category will not be shown on Forumhome, etc.

You might want to put in the desc so your average joe knows that if you hold ctrl you can highlight multiple forums.

The "average joe" should know that, as every listbox which allows selecting multiple itemas works this way - also the forum selection listboc on search.
And there too is no explanation :)

Yes it would be nice for the average joe to know. but you have to remember about 10-20% of the people who use the net will know that maybe even less. And there should be a thing for the search area too. But I have never needed to do that for the search.

Does this mod enable you to lock X forum out of new post and daily from within the adminpanel, so that no one can turn it on?

Kirby, any way to make it working with that one ?

Very useful when having multilanguage forums. Installed ;)

I have a few members that this does not work for, one is on AOL but he has tried it in a non AOL browser and still does not work. Any ideas please?

Bob

Andreas,

When going to the user groups permissions, All that is in the search column is the ability to turn on or off the "Can Search Forums".

I dont see the "Can Exclude Forums From "Get New Posts" as shown in your png files.

Doug

Install it correctly and you'll see.

GREAAAAAAT
What i like about your hacks, that they are mostly useful and bettercan be added as landmark features. That's why i look for -(Andreas)- HACKS

thank you
we_scooter

LOL, As far as I know I am installing it correctly.

If Im not installing it correctly then I dont know what the heck I would be doing wrong as the install seems pretty straight forward and selfexplanatory to me.

Doug

I don't know either what you are doing wrong. Only thing I can say is: If the permissions does not show up, then you did smth. wrong.
Most likely it's a problem with the bitfield XML.

I can see im getting far with this.

Ill figure it out on my own then and If i cant get it to work then its one less mod on my board. :)

Thanks anyway

Doug

Is there a way to make a forum ignored for ALL users?

Thanks for this very nice modification. My users love it.

Will this work on vb 3.5.3 ?

i added it, but i cant find $customfields[other] in modifyprofile template, only $customfields[required]

I'm interested in the same thing -- or even to exlude forums WITHOUT the user option of turning them back on.

i added it, but i cant find $customfields[other] in modifyprofile template, only $customfields[required]

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bah, answer me :(

This was answered already; start at post #120 and read down. You can set certain forums to "default" in the opted-out state, and users can toggle them back on at their discretion.

interesting addon worth a try :)

Works with VB 3.54?

Seems to be OK on my dev board. Doing my live board over the weekend.

Bob

Doesn't work here on vB3.5.4

The extra ucp fields doesn't show up.

Did you add the code to the UserCP template?

You mean this one ->

yes, I did.

So does it work for vB3.5.4 yes or no?

It does.

An excellent mod!
*clicks install*

before installation of hack, is it possible to add couple of forums to all usergroups to get excluded from search results via a sql query ?