I see that the permissions to create a dorm is based on post count. Is there any way (or plans) to make this where, say, only subscribers can create a dorm rather than based on posting points?

Does this work with 3.0.3?

Yes, I'm running it on a heavy modded 3.03 to boot

Thanks, I appreciate the fast response.

Works great on my heavily hacked 3.03. Wish I had started using it earlier.

AARGH. Darkwaltz, I'm not sure what I did, but once I moved the Dorms into an "inactive" and "invisible" forum parent. And now, I can't invite people to join the dorms, apparently, my PM's are not being sent to people to invite them.

Any idea what sort of things would stop this? Being a child of an "inactive" parent forum? A child of an "invisible" forum? Would permissions of the parent forum affect your dorm permission structure?? Wish I knew more about how you've got this set up so I can troubleshoot it, but, I'm a bit bewildered.

Had it working PERFECTLY before I moved the dorms into a parent forum. Didn't like them being exhibited on the forum index page on their own.

thanks
rich

docvader: no, shouldnt have done anything, although you might want to try running the 'update dorm forums' function at the bottom of the dorm config page in the acp. UPDATE: yeah, just checked the code, the script should fix your problem (after all it was coded for stuff like that :-p)

bishop93: no, not really, although might be something to look into..

jd210: apparently yes

Thanks for the quick reply.

Having it post based, I'm sure, works for many sites that would utilize such functionality. On the other hand, having this as a subscriber "perk" is exactly what I need and the functionality that you have already built into this mod is fantastic! I just need it to be able to be configured for subscribers only since I just can't allow anyone to post a 'dorm' and I don't want to created inflated post counts to limit people (my only other thought for a solution, that is). :(

I have the rest of this week to test anything out that you might want if you decided to take a crack at it. We go live on Sunday and I'll have to postpone this feature if not. But otherwise, I'm open to suggestions and implementation tests even on the test server later.

hmm, maybe i could put in a usergroup thing.

oh, and to eliminate the 'inflated post count' problem, just set the default dorm setting of 'posts count towards postcount' to off (and run the update function if you have existing dorms) and if you want to undo any postcount from previous forums, update counters. thats what my forum does :-p

so, two things i might do if i have some time...
password and usergroup support, and the auto-template-installer

:D Thanks! I'll be looking forward to it -- if you have time. ;)