Group Installs
 

Hey guys,

I recently purchased my second vBulletin license and I plan on purchasing two more. I think it may be a neat feature to offer "grouped installs". Basically so a user can tell which hacks they have installed on which boards?

I don't know, there probably isn't a high enough demand for this, but it would come in useful to me.

I second. Something like this will help me keep track of which client's forum has which hacks applied. :)

not necessary ... :down:

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Sorry, just got back ... had to feed my kids.

THINK LONG TERM
Anyway, I think in the long run this would just be something that most members will not use -- yea, you might get 1-5% of the members.

I think resources should be spent on features that are used by the majority -- not just a few.

Would be nice to the one that is posting this thread, if you at least tried to give a motiviation for that answer.

Why do you think this wouldn't be used by most members. A good number of members have multiple boards. I would definately use this feature.

I agree with you.
There will be some members who use this ----- (temporary).

Long term ... most of the data would just sit in the database.

I just don't think it's worth all the hassle and the extra storage.

hmm, i actually see the use of this, as i have multiple boards myself.

but two things which could speak against:
1: it's a lot of work to change the system to allow multiple installs per use
2: the install system is so you get updates of hacks and such, which is already doable this way.

so, it's not absolutelly needed, but on the other hand would be a fine thing, but i wouldn't expect to do it in the nearer future.

Wouldn't it work to have two accounts here? One for each license. Use one for posting and tracking the hacks on one forum. Use the other just to track the mods and don't post with it.

I see your points, but I do believe that more than 1 - 5% would use this feature.
Well, of course that would work.. and of course I didn't even think of this alternative before.

However, if this feature were included with vB.org it would obviously be less of a hassle than doing this alternative. Maybe that's my laziness speaking, I dunno..

If we are allowed to have multiple accounts for that purpose, that would be beneficial :)

That would mean that all my forums can have their own account with their own "installed hacks" on :)

One thing for such a system though - Some kind of "Primary" and "Secondary" email would be needed - If you have 4 or 5 forums, you can only add 3 email addresses to the Priority Support Form - Therefore if you have "Allow duplicate emails" set to Yes, we can enter the "Secondary email" and have that email as the "Updates etc" email :)

Either that, or you can assign a "Main" forum account, and you can add your other forum accounts to it, so they all inherit the permissions of the main account :)

Satan