Please find vb4.x version of WebTemplates hack in the attached file.

I'm releasing this as a BETA release for users who are waiting it for a long time (Thank you for your patience BTW!). It is FULLY complete (no missing sections at all etc.), yet not tested very long. So if you run into any bugs etc. please let me know and I'll check it out. After we tested it for a few weeks with the community, I'm going to release it in its own dedicated thread.

Usage, look, functionality etc. are all same with 3.x version, still, please let me know if you have any questions (BTW. new user manual revised for this version is also included in the ZIP file).

Fresh installation and upgrade from 3.x version is same for everybody and I believe installation/upgrade is quite simple as always. You can find more info in ZIP file.

Thanks for the support!

Brilliant news Logician!!

I've upgraded and followed the upgrade instructions but I'm getting the following error, I know it's not a bug more of how I've got it set up but would appreciate some guidance:

On the site information template I'm getting the following error message "Error: Header Template is Customised"

If memory serves me correctly you kindly logged into my site ages ago and changed the header template as it was causing a conflict of sorts. How do I go about changing it back to default as hopefully now I'm using vb4 it may be ok to use the default header.

PS: Everything else seems to be working great! :)

Apparently this is related to Display Unread Posts and Reputation Comments hacks. Please see if this will help:
http://www.vbadvanced.com/forum/showthread.php?t=39555

Thanks a lot! We won?t upgrade any board to 4.x before this fantastic stuff is not working with vb 4.

Well done logician - I'm one step closer to making the move to VB4 on a live site ...

<i>I do not use vb4 so am sticking to this thread.</i>

I want to make a Template which I add text, but my mods can update - I know that's not a problem using usergroup access

But I want PARTS of it to be unavailable to them to edit.
They can view ALL text on the page, mine and each others, but not edit mine.
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So it's a series of brief paragraphs I put in, then the mods can add notes to update that paragraph of info, based on their work. But they cannot alter the info I put.

It's extremely unlikely they'd be editing at the same time - only 6 people on a small project.

There is no default feature for it in Webtemplates but if the section you want them to edit is all together in a section (eg. in a paragraph or smt), you can do rest of the page a webtemplate theme and make only the part you want them to edit the webtemplate itself. Since editors can't edit theme, they'll be editing only the remaining part you want them to edit in this scenario. Hope this helps.

Logician thank you that is ingenious.
Problem is I need the admin text and the additional mod notes to alternate.

Admin A
Mods add notes to B.

Admin B
Mods add notes to B.

One other alternative would be keeping your content inside a private forum in seperate threads and then display it to users in a webtemplate with webqueries.

Eg. Thread 1 of Forum A : first message Admin message, mods can post replies.
A webquery pull the content of first message in Thread 1 and show it inside a webtemplate. Another webquery pulls replies to it and shows under it.