Please create a temporary account on your board an tell me the details via PN so I can have a look.

Rob, two points:
1. You didn't enabled the "Restriction mode", so permissions are not checked.
2. You set forum permissions manually to "Deny All", except for the Admins.

Reset the forum permissions and enable restriction mode. The restriction mode does set the permissions based on users memberstatus and usergroup permission.

Thanks Dude, it all works. Not exactly as I might like but I am sure you can get there! ;)

Still have to manually remove forum if a group is deleted.
Only way to see forums is by looking in the Admin CP.

Now, does anyone know how to change the profile template to not show user created social groups?

how would I go about 'deleting' a social group forum and then recreate it? I've got one social group, that for some reason is pointing to a wrong forum ID and won't work. I'd like to delete it and redo it

Thanks

u can just delete it from the AdminCP under Forums & Moderators. Then refresh the Group page, the "Create Forum" link should reappear :)

1. Should Users that are not a Member of this Group allowed to read open Forums?
2. Should Users that are not a Member of this Group allowed to write open Forums?
3. Should Users that are not a Member of this Group allowed to read private Forums?
4. Should Users that are not a Member of this Group allowed to write private Forums?

Yes, what redlabour has suggested would be a lot easier to understand :)

I just came from vbulletin.com, having had my first look at vB 3.7, and was disappointed with their half-hearted attempt at social groups. This mod might just have convinced me to renew my old vB licence. ;)

One quick question - is it possible to require users to subscribe (pay) to join a social forum? If not, would I be able to help by funding the development of that particular feature for this mod?

What can I do to link a already existing forum (a forum that I had before this mod came out) to a social group.

Be careful even with that..."group" could mean "Social group" or "User group". Given that you're in the user group manager, some people may get confused.

Wording that is not going to be easy.

Maybe
Should Users that are not a Member of the social group allowed to read in the social forum?

Setup a subsription with usergroups and allow only this usergroup to join a social group.

Run a query (don't forget a prefix):
UPDATE socialgroup SET forumid=YOURFORUMID WHERE groupid=YOURSOCIALGROUPID

Is there any way i can hide just ONE social group - ie no one can see it.

This mod does not hide groups, it hides forums of the groups.

Yeah, i was just wondering if there was a way :) Thanks.

No one else agrees on this, or maybe it is easy for anyone to change the layout for the group pages?

Ok, there appears to be an issue.

Under the social group it is set as Group Type: Public, and i've got it ticked that you must be a member to view.

Then under usergroup permissions it's got Can read messages in public socialforum NO Can write messages in public socialforum NO.

Yet they can still see the forum, and see the messages inside it. Why?

I already confirmed multiple times that the group homepage will have threads from the forum.

Did you enabled Restriction Mode?

Yes.

Please PN me with details of a temporary admin account to your forum.

Everyone who is asking why invite only groups (not forums!!!) are still visible, can read this thread on vbulletin.com:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=265487

Programmers of vBulletin are argumenting why they did not implemented a hidden group.

Phalynx this is one of the best modifications of recent times so very well done.

It adds a functionality to Social groups which really, really needed to be available by default. I know the reasons the developers gave for not including it but they are wrong. It should have bee there as an option, that is certain.

Social Groups are totally pointless without the ability to add a forum. Nobody reads or uses them otherwise.

Well I've installed the update as of yesterday, given it a full on testing permissions wise and all I can say is now that you've done a fantastic job on that one and I can finally use it on my forums.

This was working fine on my test server with 1.2, but I installed 1.3.1 on live after it came out, and I'm not seeing the link to create a forum. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling to make sure all of the options were defaulted (except the forum ID), but it doesn't seem to have fixed it.

Check permissions if your usergroup is allowed to create forum.

thanks a lot, i'm click install :)

I feel retarded now, thanks.

I forgot I'm in my own usergroup (other than Administrators) and forgot to fix permissions for that group.

Are you planning on adding the feature to allow unregistered to view the forums? I would like unregistered to see these forums because the topics vary from the site theme and some visitors that wouldn't normally register might if one of the member forums peaks their interest.

I have Pmd you :)

Anyway to add a link into the postbit_legacy saying the social group that the user is a part of?

Issue fixed. Some usergroups were defined to have read access to socialforums.

Already included in 1.4 (will be released today)

This hack creates only forums and checks for permissions to that forums. It does not extend social group feature on whole forum.

hmmmm weird, cuz im getting:

It kinda broke my board *LOL* I can't even log in to the ACP so I can disable it and downgrade it again:p I'm in good spirit though, I just backed up my sqldb an hour ago, so worst case scenario would be me having to use a 3 weeks old backup of the board itself.

awaiting so help while I feed my son and drink some coffee :)

thumbs up for a great mod btw!

I bet you don't have installed 1.3.1

Recover forum:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=272

This looks like a great mod, before diving in I have a couple of questions:

When you say "every page" do you mean "every page" or just those pages that relate to social groups and forum lists? It seems a bit odd that if, for example, a user is viewing the FAQ pages an additional 2 queries are required.

When/If this is added will this be optional, it could be extremely nasty if a social group owner gets annoyed over something and without thought kills the group and therefore kills a forum that might have some great content in it.

I mean every page. This forum permission check is necessary because users will protect the content of the forums. vBulletin offers possibility on many places to "view" content of a forum. Statistics in profile, RSS Feeds, other hacks, etc...
If you don't need the forum permissions, you can disabled it via options. vBulletin does not offer Hooks in a location where I could "hang in". It has been requested, but it seems that Jelsoft don't see the benefit from it.

There is no possibility to check if a user is a member of a social group, so I have to use a query to gather this information.

I wrote also that such a forum would get deleted OR archived.

Well guess you were right on that part, hmmm must have clicked the wrong folder when I thought I was updating it, anyways, superfast reply, it all worked out, things are back to status quo :)

Cheers, thumbsupx2:up::eek:

SocialForums has been updated to v1.4.

Changes:
1.4.0, 27th May 2008
- Added: If a group has a linked forum the grouplisting has the last post date and count of postings (with permission check).
- Added: Recent threads in linked forum on group home
- Added: Private groups: Link to forum only shown to members of group
- Changed: Enabled permissions for unregistered usergroup. Unregistered Users are not more explicit denied without a check of it's usergroup

Upgrade
1. Uninstall existing version, import the product. No forums get lost!
2. Check settings, especially for parent forum. Don't forget to set permissions via usergroups!

Okay, so the "recent activity" when viewing the Social Group can now show the latest posts in the social forum. However, the avatars are broken in this view.

Very, very nice update!
But is it possible, that just the Topics and not the Posts are shown?

Kind regards
Benny

The lovely avatarrevision. Please download 1.4.1 and update product.

Maybe I will implement such a setting in one of the next version.

Glad to hear that :)
And another request:
I just saw, that User, who are moderator of a SocialForum, appears in the Forum Group Overview. Could you give us an option, that handle this?

Kind regards
Benny