Social Group Icons in Postbit
 

This plugin displays the icon for all social groups a user belongs to in the postbit.

To Install:
Add this product as you would any other vBulletin product.
Admin -> Plugins & Products -> Manage Products -> Add/Import Product

After it is installed, enable it by going to
Admin -> Settings -> Options -> Redinkdesign - Group Icons in Postbit -> Enable
Select if you want public, invite only and/or moderated icons to show up
To set the default icon for social groups which gets displayed if the group doesn't have an icon, you'll need to set the stylevar "usefilegroupicon". It should be set by default, but you should update it for your specific theme.

A live demo can be found at http://www.b15u.com

Update Log
Updated 12-10-2012
Added support for groups that don't have an icon uploaded
Added support to show moderated and invite only groups as well as public
Fixed bug where the incorrect icons were being displayed in private messages

Updated 1-12-2012
Added support for icons that are stored in the database instead of on the filesystem

Reserved, just in-case.

dont work...

A little more information would be helpful...

What version of vb? Default theme? Any errors?

Is not working. When I uploaded I received the following error:
Error XML: mismatched tag en la línea 31
("en la línea 31" means "in line 31")

I'm using the default theme on vB 4.1.9

I just re-uploaded the xml, please try it and let me know if it works. I just removed the mod from my own forum and re-installed it by using the xml file I just uploaded, and it worked fine. Maybe the one I initially uploaded was bad...

is working on 4.1.9 but u need to add icons cus there is no icons :) i tested an unistalled cus im not big fan of this.

It uses the image used to represent the social group. When you create a social group, you uplaod and image at that time.

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How well does this work for those social groups that do not have an image associated to it?

the images are not seen ...

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

The url of the images are

mysite.xx/customgroupicons/thumbs/socialgroupicon_1_1326027143.gif

There's currently no check to make sure the image exists, but I can add that.

Does the image actually exist? Do you have a link to your site?

This sounds like it would be a nice mod if it works by default. Meaning that if an image is setup on the group, it'll show automatically and if it isn't then a default image should be shown.

That's exactly what the mod does. Ill put a check to make sure the image exists.

Doesn't work, no images are showing at all.

Do you have a link? Did you enable the plugin? Does the groups have an image?

I can confirm the issues. The group avatar are not shown in postbit, only the name of the groups are displayed.
Additonally i'd like to suggest to add a header to the postbit, e.g. "Groups:"

SR

Can you PM me a link? I would like to take a look...

Thanks for the help alex, it seems the directory I'm using to find the icons does not exist. I'll look into this.

The issue was icons being stored in the database instead of on the filesystem. I just updated the code so it uses the correct url depending on the site settings.

Finally working.

My attachment was on the file server, not the database... But for the longest time it always showed an empty red X, as though the photo was missing or could not be found.

Your update seems to have resolved this. :up:

Installed and working

4.1.10 Beta 1 :)

Nice, it's now using the path defined in Groups -> Group Icon Storage Type to look for images, maybe that did it.

Installed on 4.18, but the new postbit doesn't work or perhaps because it's a private group. When I have a public group running I'll see again

www.leicaeme.com

This currently only displays public groups. I can add an option to show private groups as well.

Should be nice, sure.

Working perfect for me. : D

Perhaps add a setting where you can set how many groups will display in the postbit? Some people join a LOT of groups and it can stretch out the postbit all crazy.

does it work on 4.1.3?

Good idea, I will add it in the next release

Awesome! Thank you! <3

It doesn't show the icon for groups that didn't upload a custom avatar. Fix it please!

Sort of defeats the purpose no? But yes, I'll be adding a default image if none has been uploaded in the next couple weeks.

Yes maybe usergroup permission who can see the private group icon.


Maybe with a more... to see the others.

Hello,

Problem if a deleted account is in a thread = database error

Exemple : you delete an user, the possbit display "visitor" in the thread BUT when you want to see the thread = database error

I have desactivated the module, i'm waiting for a correction if possible.

Bug: Private Messages in the inbox

My group icons are being displayed under the senders userinfo instead of their group icons.

Any updates to this?

Sorry guys, no updates yet, just been busy with life for the past few months. I'm not abandoning this though as it's being used on my own personal forum and the features requested are pretty important for my site as well. As soon as things settle down, I will implement the changes. If anyone wants to make changes to the code, you're more than welcome to https://github.com/redinkdesign/Soci...ons-in-Postbit

Updated. I added no icon support and you can now select to show icons for private and moderated groups.

Database error in vBulletin 4.1.10:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT sgm.userid,sgm.groupid,sg.name,sgi.dateline,sgi.ex tension FROM vbsocialgroupmember sgm LEFT JOIN vbsocialgroup sg ON sg.groupid = sgm.groupid LEFT JOIN vbsocialgroupicon sgi ON sgi.groupid = sgm.groupid WHERE sgm.userid = 5 AND (sg.type is null)';

MySQL Error : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ''' at line 1
Error Number : 1064
Request Date : Tuesday, December 11th 2012 @ 12:19:05 AM
Error Date : Tuesday, December 11th 2012 @ 12:19:05 AM

Ah, thanks for the quick bug find. Happens if niether public, inviteonly or moderated icons are selected. I'll fix now.

Fixed - product xml file updated