Display a list of users in a usergroup under a forum?
 

Anyone have an idea of how to make this work?

I'd like to take the vendor usergroup we have (id:20) and have a forum display setup to list their usernames in a list (with hyperlinks to their profiles) as a forum.

I don't know what you mean when you say "as a forum". But maybe a roster mod, like this one: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=299659 . I haven't tried it myself, and you might want to look at others by searching vb4 mod titles for "roster".

Nahh, not really what I'm looking for. I'd like to simply display under a forum place holder a list of names with the names being hyperlinks to their profiles. Not really wanting another page to display. I assume that there's something that could be leveraged from the canned vB file showgroups.php since they display there. Just really would like to trim it down to either a single page that would display only the vendor usergroup (not the admin/mods) or a simple listing of user names on the main page, which is really what I'm aiming for.

Well, you could try creating a plugin using hook location forumdisplay_complete and code like this (change the X on the first line to the id of the forum where you want it to display):

then create a new template something like this:

In this example I named the new template 'my_memberlist', but you can name it anything you want as long as you change it in the plugin code as well.

Of course this is a simple example, html isn't really my thing so I'll leave it up to you to make it look good.

Hmm, so I did all this, but all I see is the newly formed forum, but no listing. Is there something I should do in how the forum is setup? Maybe insert some code into the link?