You love the 'similar threads' function and you are sick of duplicate threads just because your users don't use the search function?
Why not just combine them?
This Add-on will grab the thread title the user typed in and it will load a small box (using Ajax magic ) with 5 similar threads just like the 'similar threads' function that you can normally find under an already posted thread.
The box also tells the user to search through the similar threads first BEFORE starting a new one.
Features:
- indicated if you already subscribed to one or more similar threads
- hover over the title and it gives a little preview of the thread's content
- no edits whatsoever needed, just import the product file, enable the Add-on and it works (well, it should )
- you can turn it off for certain forums or
- you can turn it off completely without leaving any code that messes your templates/files
- it can be translated
- don't like it anymore? Remove the product and you'll never see that Add-on again
Known issues:
- none
Things to consider:
It uses jQuery to get the information from ajax.php. jQuery is great and you can do many great things with it and unlike the vBulletin method it's quite easy to understand.
Here's the version I use: http://code.google.com/p/jqueryjs/do...s&downloadBtn=
Just download the file from the location and put it into the 'clientscript' folder on your server without renaming the file.
Import the attached file using the Product Manager. Go to your vBulletin settings and search for 'Check for similar threads?'.
Enable it.
Important:
It adds 2 new templates, it changes 1 template and it edits 2 files. I highly doubt that it will break you vBulletin but do a back-up and be on the safe side.
Version history:
2.0 -> this release
1.0 -> outdated (made for vB 3.6.*)
Yes, it does Thomas; we upgraded to 3.8.4 the other day and mine is working great now! Everyone loves it! Ooops, there's one part that's not working perfectly though.. I've entered the forums I do not want it to search but it's still searching them as well... but that's no big deal I suppose. I'd prefer it didn't, but if it must, so be it; at least it works!
hmmmm was changing much things but for me dont work... can u tell me what u do to run this addon ?
I've got an interesting problem, it only shows the threads it wants to show...
For example, if I type "hello" it says no results (but there are lots of threads visible with "hello" in the title)... But if I type "race" it'll show up with the correct results (two threads with "race" in the title).
I did it!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And it works!!!!!!!!!!!!! Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!
One last question, do I have to change this in each of the styles I have separately?
Thank you so very much!!! I would have never even tried if you hadn't encouraged me!
Cindy, when you go to your other styles look to see if that template is shwoing orange, if it is it has inherited the changes from the original template if not you need to do the same for each style im afraid........glad you gained a bit of confidence, as a tip, i have a style as a child from the main style i callled it test, i do all my mods there first to see how they are and tinker with them before doing the same to a style that members are using, if you break the test style and cant fix it who cares? simply delete it and start again
Great confidence booster when it comes to tinkering inside vbulletin.
I've done the template edit and I can get this working perfectly fine on 3.8.4 with the Auto Tagger AJAX Enabled? set to "No" - but then my Auto Tag doesn't tag the threads at all.
I've done the template edit and I can get this working perfectly fine on 3.8.4 with the Auto Tagger AJAX Enabled? set to "No" - but then my Auto Tag doesn't tag the threads at all.
Yep, same here - definitely some kinda conflict going on.
I've done the template edit and I can get this working perfectly fine on 3.8.4 with the Auto Tagger AJAX Enabled? set to "No" - but then my Auto Tag doesn't tag the threads at all.
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) with 5 similar threads just like the 'similar threads' function that you can normally find under an already posted thread.
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09-25-2009, 03:20 AM
