[Bill Thebert]

Originally Posted by Brad.loo

The problem with doing that is the information shown on the threadbit area is pulled from the thread table. No user information is pulled except for what is stored in the thread table, custom profile fields are not included in this.

You are going to have to hack your board to achive the result you are looking for, you should try posting a request at www.vbulletin.org

As I understand your response, Brad, there would be two ways of skinning this cat:

1) Hack newthread.php so that it writes "field9" from the user profile to the thread table at the time each new thread is created, or

2) hack forumdisplay.php to do a table JOIN in order to retrieve the desired information when the forum is viewed.

Am I correct in that assessment?

If so, is one way any better than the other? I'm thinking #1 is probably wiser, since the WRITE is happening anyway. (What's one more field?) Besides, each thread is created only once, but viewed many times. Seems like a better investment of server MIPs to write the data to the threads table & be done with it.

Am I on track?

Bill