[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by arcadian_girl

i'm having trouble with the extra to auto-create a thread when a new file is uploaded. i uploaded the plugin, but nothing's happening-it's still not creating the thread. i was kind of confused as to the instructions-was i supposed to do something other than just install the plugin?

thanks

I'm assuming that you've uploaded the autocreate_plugin.xml plugin and you can see from your VB admincp that it is active and tied to ldm_addlink_inserted.

The thread creation is *only* triggered if these conditions are met:

1) The new entry is given (explicitly or automatically) an "associated forum".
2) The forum is real and open (i.e. you've not set it up as a *category* forum or a *linked* forum* in the VB admin/forum pages)
3) The user who is creating the new LDM entry has permission to post in that forum

By default, LDM does not automatically associate new links with one of your forums, so by default, this *extra* will not do anything.

Further, by default, only admins can assign an associated forum - for them, the *Add Link* form will include a selection list titled "Parent Forum".

If you want to change this so that new entries from all users will have a default associated forum, you can do one of the following:

- Set *default_forumid* on the LDM admin/settings page to one of your forums. By itself, this will associate all new entries in all categories with the selected forum. So if this is all that you do, everytime a user creates a new entry in LDM, there will be a new thread in that forum.

- Edit one or all of your categories and set its *Parent Forum*. This will ensure that all new entries added to that category will be associated with the selected forum. So if this is all you do, each time a user creates a new entry in LDM, the new thread will be created in the forum that you've just associated with the category

- Give one or more of your usergroups *can_set_permissions* permission, on the LDM Admin/Permissions page. This will allow users in these groups to decide for themselves the forum with which to associate the new entry, an dtherefore which forum will contain the new thread. (This permission allows users to do a couple of other things too, so take care if you don' trust your users.)