Miscellaneous Hacks - Force Intro On Register

This will force new members to fill out an intro when they register to your site. Very handy to make sure they are seen and with luck helps them feel welcome.

To install:
Create a new multiple-line text box profile field with the following settings.
Title: (your choice but should reflect it is intro)
Description: (once again your choice)
Max length: (has to be more then your minimum you will set later)
Field Required:Yes, at registration and profile updating
Private field: yes (can be no if you wish)

Rest of the fields are at your discretion. Make sure you make note of the new field id

Import product-introonregister in Manage Products

Now go to vBulletin Options->Into On Register Option and set the values.

Thats it, I have been using it for some time and thought others may like it.

[darknusens]

Originally Posted by SVTCobraLTD

Installed, not working for 3.6.x?? Same problem as darknusens, no box showing up.

Hey dude, I figured it out, lol it's cause we didn't follow the instructions properly..

k this is what you need to do..

You need to create a new "multiple-line text box profile field" to get that box that is missing. To create it you need to go to your admin control panel and:

1. Scroll down till you see a box that says "User Profile Fields"

2. Click where it says "Add New User Profile Field"

3. In the drop down box select "multiple-line text box"

4. Input the following settings

Title: (your choice but should reflect it is intro)

Description: (once again your choice)

Max length: (has to be more then your minimum you will set later)

Field Required: Yes, at registration and profile updating

Private field: yes (can be no if you wish)

Rest of the fields are at your discretion. Make sure you make note of the new field id

Import product-introonregister in Manage Products

Now go to vBulletin Options->Into On Register Option and set the values.

All done!

one more thing, where it says "Forum for the intro's to go" in the vbulletin options setting... it needs to be just the last number of the url where your introductions are stored

For example the url where my introductions are stored is at:

http://gamerzcreed.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=8

So all I needed to do was put the 8 in the "Forum for the intro's to go" box, not the whole url. If you still can't get it to work, let me know.

[SVTCobraLTD]

Guess reading the instructions would help some.

Now its installed but getting security token error

Your submission could not be processed because a security token was missing or mismatched.

If this occurred unexpectedly, please inform the administrator and describe the action you performed before you received this error.

[SVTCobraLTD]

Originally Posted by SVTCobraLTD

Guess reading the instructions would help some.

Now its installed but getting security token error

Your submission could not be processed because a security token was missing or mismatched.

If this occurred unexpectedly, please inform the administrator and describe the action you performed before you received this error.

Anyone have any idea?

[SVTCobraLTD]

Got the error above resolved. This makes the post when they sign up, however, does it send them a notification email when they get a response? I see it still leaves their post count at 0.

[SVTCobraLTD]

Any way to get this to automatically add the new user to their introduction post??

[mommiesrus]

When someone uses this mod, I can see the "thread" in the "Latest Posts" column of my intro forum. The name of poster is different than all other threads - includes hyphen followed by duplicate name)

Stephanie Intro
by Stephanie - Stephanie

When I click on the link, I get this message:

Here is the link by "Latest Posts":
http://getyourdailydose.com/showthre...o=newpost&t=11

When that link is clicked it is redirected to this URL:
http://getyourdailydose.com/showthread.php?p=0#post0

..with the following error:

"vBulletin Message
No Thread specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator"




Does anyone have any suggestions?

[wmlvb]

Originally Posted by DJScorpio

is there a way so that members that are already on there.. i.e signed up before i put the hack on.. make it so that they have to update there field.. when they go to post or view a thread it will redirect them to update there profilee.. and this must be done or they cant continue...?

I would like to know this too! Anyway we can do this? Maybe Force them to fill out that field next time they sign in?

[wmlvb]

Do you know what would be an awesome add on tot his mod?

A automatic hyperlink to the intro created placed in the users signature! Any one have a clue how to make something like that happen? Thanks

[wmlvb]

Hey when the thread is created it is show the user has zero posts in postbit for the user still! This is causing the users not to be notified that they have a intro thread and when member are welcoming them they do not see the notifiacion! anyone know how to make the Thread created in registration to show as a posts in the users profie/postbit?

[Cybershaolin]

I love this hack, thanks for having created it.

But, I have some problems, as for some of the members have already noticed. Here they are"

1- User posts count is not updated and still shows 0 posts
2- Link to the newpost does not work on the forumhome and link to the lastpost brings you to the wrong thread on the forumhome. Same on the forum display happens. (These are very annoying).
3- Forumhome lastpost poster shows incorrect username like "by Mike - Mike" instead of just "by Mike"
4- Lastpost post icon is shown as a Poll instead of default icon (or some of our own choice would be great).

Besides that, it's still a great hack but I would like to get these problems resolved. Does anybody could help?