Split Useronline on Forumhome
 

Description
Splits the User Online section on the Forum Home to allow for staff/team members and users to be separated into groups. This is a new version of Surviver's original modification which was made for vBulletin 3.6.4. This new product was made with Survivor's permission and is heavily based upon the original modification.

The original modification can be found here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=135771

Features

• Currently allows for three different types of extra users (Team, Premium and VIP) on top of the usual members.
• This is now controlled through the usergroup manager whereby you can select Yes or No for each of the three types of users.
• Fixes the saving issue experienced by users of the previous modification running vBulletin 3.7.

Installation

1. Upload all necessary files to their respective directories.
2. Install the product XML file.
3. Turn on the Split Useronline tool (vBulletin Options -> Forum Home Page Options -> Split Useronline - Yes.
4. Implement small template edit (see below).
5. Set relevant permissions for each usergroup.

Upgrade
Unfortunately anyone wishing to upgrade from the previous modification to this will be unable to. I was advised to create this as a seperate product to avoid any potential conflicts in the future, and also due to the differences in how the settings are done there would have been no way to keep the saved settings anyway.

However anyone who has already experienced the saving issue with the existing Product will have already lost their settings.

Template Edit

1. Open the forumhome_loggedinuser template.
   
2. Find:
   
   HTML Code:

   ---

   <if condition="$show['comma_leader']">, </if>

   ---

3. Replace with:
   
   HTML Code:

   ---

   <if condition="$show['comma_leader']"> </if>

   ---

Author Notes
The change of location for the settings was done for two reasons: it was easier to sort out and I wanted the settings to be more logically placed. This allows for anyone with several 'team' usergroups to create new usergroups based on the permissions of an existing one therefore keeping the relevant permissions. Meaning it should make things easier in the long term.

Credit for the original modification obviously goes to Surviver as mentioned at the top. Also the credit for the above template edit goes to GamerGirl27 though I will be trying to find a solution that removes the need for any template edits.

Thanks :)

It didnt do anything? :(

Firstly it needs to be activated in the vBulletin options as explained in the installation steps above and then all that needs to be done is going into the usergroup manager for the usergroups you wish to put into these groups and selecting Yes next to the particular group.

i.e. if you wish to make all admins part of the 'team' group you simply have to go: Usergroups -> Usergroup Manager -> Edit Administrators -> Then the relevant options should be at the bottom of this page. Simply select Yes next to the type you want the usergroup to be and they'll then appear separated from the normal users in the user online section. As shown in the final screenshot.

Also if the options in the Usergroup manager section don't appear then be sure you uploaded the one file properly. I included a file in the upload/includes/xml/ directory that needed to be uploaded for those options to appear.

Beautiful!! it works now.

Thank you .

Great hack!

No problem and glad to hear you like it.

I'll try and get some default settings applied i.e. Turned on by default and some default usergroups already set as part of the Team group. That should make things a bit easier to follow and give people a bit of an idea on how to use it at least. That'll probably be sometime later this week.

perhaps adding more groups would be useful..such as;

Admins:
Moderators:
Members:

Cheers mate :) Its a great feature, so its good to see it available and working for 3.7.

some moderators goes to regualr members. Any ideas?

Greetings,

I've installed and works fine.

Just a quick question. How can i order the users inside each table, ordered by name, group ?
Because staff means admins and mod's for example. In this case i would like to have staff like this :

Staff : adminAA, adminBB, superMODAA, superMODBB, MODAA, MODBB ....
Users : userA, userB, userC .....

Thank's in advance,

KK

Are the usergroups they're in definitely included in the group? Or is there anything specific about them? i.e. are they in the usergroup as additional users whereas the ones that work are primary? Helps to find the bug if I know what situation causes the error if an error exists.

Otherwise if you'd be happy with it I'd be happy to take a look in your admincp and try and work out the problem from there?

Pureturk: For the moment you could always edit the phrase values for two (can do all three but for what you want you'd only need to change two) of the existing three groups to make them be called whatever you like. Just search for "Team", "VIP", and "Premium" and you should be able to find the relevant phrases.

On those same searches you should be able to change what it says on the usergroup manager page too if you want that to change too. the format should be "This is a ...." Usergroup" or something along those lines.

Though I think I will at some stage try and make it so you can have as many or as little groups as you want with you selecting their names. Not yet sure how I'd approach that though lol. But the above phrase edits would give you what you want for the moment.

@ killer: I think I know what you mean, you want it to put all of a particular usergroup in alphabetical order within the same section? This plugin doesn't actually control the order of the names, even in the seperate groups. The order is still fed from the system and basically I just have three variables for the different types of groups possible and add to each one any new members of that group. So it just results in three alphabetically ordered groups.

I think the best way to do what you want would be to have them as seperate groups, if you need them in the same group you'd need to find where the variable $loggedin is created and alter that to order by usergroup and name.

Hello,

I think i know the answer to that.

You must set the primary correctly for these mod's, i.e., they are mod's and regular users.

If the primary group is users they apeear as users.

KK

It would be good if you included the option to show usergroup X and it would show all users in that usergroup whether they are primary or secondary. some may want this others may not.

Yeah I think that was something I overlooked when just trying to get it working lol. Especially when on our site the only staff who have staff usergroups as additional are when their primary one is also a staff group lol. Not something I had taken into consideration as I now have to check the usergrop's corresponding permissions.

I''ll get it sorted sometime this week so that it also looks at your additional usergroups. It will increase the processing a bit though as I'll have to make it check each usergroup. I'll do some brainstorming in the meantime though.

*clicks install*

THANK YOU for updating this!!!!! I need only ONE extra group. Is there an easy way to do this?

Nice hack. But i want something more. I want that u recode this hack in which anyone can add extra legends because there are only three only. Also to change there name. I think u understood. I want this one because i needed this kind of legend bar i edited from existing one but errors errors errors on eval code on index page. Reply soon after modification. Regards!

Also i tried again today. I wanted to add programmer and crackers group into the legend. The edited product xml file is this look


and bitfield xml file like this

But error again on line 11 syntax error eval code.


Pls i need this to be solved as soon as possible.

it showing :(

I want Staff There, how to change ?

Ah Rjs from ConsoleGaming, how are you mate? Dignitas Thalix here.

Thanks for this, i could use this as well. Can't you release that ladder system of yours? ;). Just joking :P.

Cheers.

Thanks, installed..

@ lucky try the following (not tested but just fixing some bugs I noticed in your supplied code samples:

I've put the changes from your code in red so you can see what I've changed (just adding an OR into the first sample and changing the bitfield values so they are correct. Values need to go up in powers of 2: 1,2,4,8,16,32 etc. That's how binary works as you can represent numbers 0-63 with just 6 bits. This attachment may help:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...7&d=1199470611

Also I'm not sure what the -'s are in front of the lines though unless they were added by your editor? If so remember to just make the alterations I've highlighted into your own code rather than copying and pasting it.

@anantthakor: "UFN DeV Team" certainly wasn't in my plugin, it sounds like the phrases are possibly conflicting with another plugin that is attempting to use a phrase of the same name? In any case try searching the phrases (found in the admincp menu) for that and if you don't mind changing where else that phrase is used then feel free to change it. Just surprised about it really. I used the same phrases as the original mod to try and avoid this exact problem lol.

@Nemesis: Nice to see a friendly face around here lol. The main reason I did this modification was because I wanted it myself on 3.7 and saw no reason why I shouldn't release it for everyone else too. And the ladder system isn't a vB mod :P.

Sorry guys about not doing an update as I had originally planned, gt quite a few projects going on (mainly on doing a new site design) so I haven;t had as much spare time as I had expected. The main two updates I want to do would be firstly to fix the bug on not checking additional usergroups and at some point as I said on the first page I would like to give the admins the choice of how many groups to have and what they are called though at the moment that's a bit above my level. So let me get the bug fixxed first and then I can start looking into the expansion ;).

Ya bro that - es my mistake =)). I just reedited the code and copied from the xml file not from editor. Thx for a late update but i'll check this. Also i've asked u to make a custom mod like this in which custom groups can be added and there names too. Im waiting for the next update.

there is no option to change it like in the other one where we can chage the worlds to fit our forum..how do we go about doing that...

any idea how to make it work with the userlegend hack...when i turn on the spit the userlend hack disapears and when i trun the hack off it reappears kindly help

thx and installed
but, i wanna add more groups
not 3,maybe 5 or 6
is it possible?
can i do it?

im looking for that too

how to change the phrase word?? i only activated team usergroup and it says admins and shows all the staff in admins group even its mod?? plz reply asap

guyz anyone?

BRo when i install it give an error on forum home
;rm THis is the eror word tat can see in who is online

Wat can i do for tat bro:confused:

PLz reply soon

Thanks in Advance

Great mod thanks

no support..to be honest its shit for me now mod with no support sucks

Sorry I started a full time job very recently and life's been a bit hectic as a result, I have just replied to your and prism's pm's. And I had already given a brief explanation on how to alter the names of the groups in response to a question on the first page. Though it may well be worth adding into the main mod details to make it more clear until a point where I can make the groups completely editable. Though making the number of groups editable is a significantly more difficult task.

Concerning this userlegend hack could you perhaps link me to it? (either here or through pm) and I'll get it installed on my test site and see what would be causing it. If anyone used the old version of this hack did the same issue occur with that? If not then I do apologize about that and I'll see what can be done once I have the details of the specific mod.

thanks man its all solved now and thanks for ur help i appreciate it :D

No problem, I managed to find about three user legend hacks so I'm not sure which one people are talking about? If someone would kindly link me to the one they were talking about I'd gladly get it installed to try and investigate the issue described. If it's the one Survivor created for 3.6 then it looks like that is another hack that needs to be upgraded as again it doesn't work properly (doesn't save settings again) on 3.7. I see two hacks on 3.7 though that do work, but haven't tested them with with my own hack yet, will try that shortly if no-one answers my question ;).

it doesn't work with userlegend thats why i have manually edited template for userlegends

i have vb 3.7.2 but srangely this one doesnt work on my site and 3.6.x version does work dats strange and also i would like to know how do i add specific usergrps to certain level like team etc and also to have more categories like Programmers,VIP.Hope i get reply soon !

It doesnt even show in my VBoptions ? No replies yet ?

Sorry I've had some computer problems recently which resulted in my computer being away for close to a month. It sounds like it isn't even installed in all honesty :S. Are you sure you followed all the installation instructions?

i.e. Uploading the file/s I provided to the correct directories? I'd be happy to take a look in your admincp for you if you wish. And I do apologize about the very late response time but circumstances have been out of my hand unfortunately.

I tried everything it shows in forum home page opions but not in VBoptions(if it should show).Also when i select various grps for various level n press save they are atomatically removed from it.Any idea why its happening ?

From Correct me if I;m wrong but Forum Home Page Options is inside VB Options? Basically there's just a single setting in there which turns it on or off. if that option is not showing then it sounds like the xml for the vboptions hasnt been uploaded properly or at least that it can't find it. I'm asuming you've tried uninstalling and re-installing.

I'm actually on a different pc at the moment so don't have access to all my files but I'll re-download the mod over the weekend and take a look to see if I can find anything more concrete for you.