Version: 1.0.3, by Andreas
Developer Last Online: Jan 2023
Version: 3.5.4
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Released: 06-24-2005
Last Update: 09-26-2005
Installs: 254
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Description
This Hack allows the Users to select certain Forums they do not want to appear on Get New/Get Daily.
It includes a new Permission, so you can specify which Usergroups can use this feature, which Forums
can't be excluded, etc.
Details
1 Product XML with 3 Plugins, 4 Phrases and 1 SQL Query
1 Bitfield XML
1 Template Edit
History
1.0.0 Initial Version
1.0.1 Added Option "None" for users who don't know about their CTRL Key
1.0.2 Updated for RC1 Note: This Hack does only work for vBulletin 3.5.0 RC1 and up!
1.0.3 Fixed a small Typo and a possible Problem with Forums that contain HTML in Title
Please only click Install if you actually have installed/are using this Hack, and click Uninstall when you don't use it any longer!
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*** Is it possible to set certain forums to DEFAULT as opted-out (excluded), but have it so enabled usergroup still has option to opt-IN that forum/s??
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I want my RSS news forums opted-out/excluded BY DEFAULT... but be ABLE to have users still be able to ADD/OPT-IN if they want to.
(Right now, as far as I can tell, its only possible to do the reverse, is that correct?)
otherwise, relatively few users will ever opt-out even though they were probably prefer to....simply cause most people are lazy or don't realize they can (or just don't bother to customize), imo.
(I like to my default settings play to majority and let "customizers" do their thing. Not have news feeds in the NewPosts is much better for most, imo )
*** Is it possible to set certain forums to DEFAULT as opted-out (excluded), but have it so enabled usergroup still has option to opt-IN that forum/s??
***
I want my RSS news forums opted-out/excluded BY DEFAULT... but be ABLE to have users still be able to ADD/OPT-IN if they want to.
(Right now, as far as I can tell, its only possible to do the reverse, is that correct?)
otherwise, relatively few users will ever opt-out even though they were probably prefer to....simply cause most people are lazy or don't realize they can (or just don't bother to customize), imo.
(I like to my default settings play to majority and let "customizers" do their thing. Not have news feeds in the NewPosts is much better for most, imo )
I want my RSS news forums opted-out/excluded BY DEFAULT... but be ABLE to have users still be able to ADD/OPT-IN if they want to.
(Right now, as far as I can tell, its only possible to do the reverse, is that correct?)
otherwise, relatively few users will ever opt-out even though they were probably prefer to....simply cause most people are lazy or don't realize they can (or just don't bother to customize), imo.
(I like to my default settings play to majority and let "customizers" do their thing. Not have news feeds in the NewPosts is much better for most, imo )
This is not too usable for end users, so I don't think anyone will do that.
The permission system doesnt propagate down the forum permissions, ex: if you set do not excludeforums at the top of a forum section, all forums will receive "do not exclude" even if you change individual forums under that section to "allow exclude"
is there a way to fix this, as it is, if you have a very large forum setting each individual subforum under that section is extremely time consuming and imo. not worth the efforts.
Additionally when you add this feature it clashes with the new post reporting option in such a way that you see "no. of newposts" but when you click on it the search returns nothing.
This hack is not very useful in its current form (uninstall)
Additionally when you add this feature it clashes with the new post reporting option in such a way that you see "no. of newposts" but when you click on it the search returns nothing.
That must be a hack? Because I don't have anywhere on my site that shows a number of newposts. If that's the case, then your hack will need to be modified to take into account opt'ed out forums.
The permission system doesnt propagate down the forum permissions, ex: if you set do not excludeforums at the top of a forum section, all forums will receive "do not exclude" even if you change individual forums under that section to "allow exclude"
The permission is Can excludeForums from "Get NewPosts".
If you set this to No for a Category, but Yes for subforums of this category, the category will not show up in the listbox - that's correct and actaully working as designed.
vBulletin search behaves the same way - set "Can search Forum" for a category to No, but Yes for subforums - it will not be shown on the search form.
Or set "Can View"=No for a category but Yes for subforums - the category will not be shown on Forumhome, etc.
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10-11-2005, 04:12 PM
