Social Group and Album Enhancements - Cel User's Social Groups on Forum Home (like forumlist, fully templated)

What does it do?

• Shows all social groups the actual user is a member of or is subscribed to, just below the forumlist (or anywhere else on forumhome).
• If there are new messages, the corresponding forum statusicon is highlighted - just like in forumlist.
• Instead of the statusicons, you can show the group's icon
• If there are no groups to show, you can choose to show a teaser message.

Things to set in AdminCP/Options:

• use template hook to output or - more flexible - make manual template edit
• show member of / subscribed to /nothing
• sort by name or last message date
• limit max number of groups shown, then link to appropriate page (grouplist for members, usercp for subscribers)
• restrict use by usergroup
• show a teaser message if there are no groups to show
• show buttons to open new discussion etc.
• apply custom css to grouptitle
• trim group description to max length or disable
• parse bbcode in group descriptions
• use a different set of statusicons for groups than for forums
• show groupicon instead of statusicon, and choose whether you want to show original size or resized to standard statusicon size

Looks

• Out of the box: copies the standard look of the forumlist on forumhome.
• Fully templated.

Install/upgrade

1. Upload folder "images" to your forum root (can be omitted if you do not want to use the buttons).
2. Import the product file.
3. Check settings in AdminCP->Options->Social Groups on Forumhome.

Technical stuff

• 3 templates (following the forumbit-scheme)
• 2 plugins
• 2 queries to forumhome (only if groups are shown, of course).
• a bunch of phrases (prefix: cel_sgfh_).
• 4 png-buttons, taken from the silk icon set.

Limitations

• Marking of new messages only works with database, not with cookie based marking of read threads (-> AdminCP setting)
• 3.7 Discussion groups will show up as "no messages yet" as long as there was no message written under a version 3.8.0 or higher

Version history

• 4.0.006: fixed minor display bug when no discussions yet in group and fixed encoding issue reported by Been_Told
• 4.0.005: fixed small PHP 5.3 issue
• 4.0.004: fixed group's icon styling issues (thanks to ZexTasy for some useful hints) and added resize option, implemented suggestions (f.e. using template hook now)
• 4.0.003: Adapted to vB4 beta 3, first public release
• 4.0.001: Ported to vB4 alpha 1
• previous see 3.8 versions here.

The 3.8 version of this mod can be found here.

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[trackpads]

I dont think the icon error is just this mod. I am getting that exact same issue with other mods such as custom forum icons. I have no clue whats doing it.

[trackpads]

Its has got to be a css issue but I am not experienced enough to fix it, uninstalled.

[MaxLiao]

Originally Posted by Miss T

Right now you check on thread level

i am using your mod and i cannot get the display to show "read" when i apply the "mark group as read" - it continues to display as if unread...

is this something you have heard before?

Hopefully I didn't miss the fix action for this, but I just installed this mod yesterday and I'm having this issue as well. When read - (even when using the Mark this Discussion as Read or Mark this Group as Read options ) - it's still showing the unread icon.

Thanks for any support.

[MagicPID]

Does anyone know how to make this work with the tabbed home: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=233135

[ArcadeSyndicate]

Originally Posted by duditas

Please, can you check it for vB 4.1.12?




It happens the same with Default Style or with my own style.

Thanks in advance

same problem with 4.2.1

http://d.pr/i/tpxl

[iiioroh]

In 4.2.3 in a structure groups are duplicated - http://take.ms/ql88Y

[markoroots]

Originally Posted by fwulfers

That's what I am looking for as well. Perhaps have all the individual groups show on Forumhome as subforums in a Groups main forum.

Hi @Cellarius, is it possible to integrate in the plugin this function?

[markoroots]

Originally Posted by ArcadeSyndicate

same problem with 4.2.1

http://d.pr/i/tpxl

Too me, same problem.

[KevinL]

Originally Posted by ArcadeSyndicate

same problem with 4.2.1

http://d.pr/i/tpxl

Originally Posted by markoroots

Too me, same problem.

I just added

.forumicon {
  Width: 48px;
  Hight: 48px;
}

to the additional.css to format all the icons the same size. Probably not the best option but it works.

[markoroots]

Great Kevin, many thanks.

Adn does someone know how to show all groups in the home page and not only those subscribed?