Forum Display Enhancements - Global Threads

Description
If your forums are split up in such a way where certain groups of users only visit a certain forum, then you know it's difficult to get all your users to read an announcement. This mod displays a certain amount of threads from a specified "source" forum, and places it on the Forum Display page right after the Stickied threads. These threads are labeled with a "Global: " tag.

This mod is in beta, so install at your own risk, but will be supported. Please let me know of any bugs, or suggestions that you may have!

Install / Upgrade
Download the attached XML file, and import it at
Admin Control Panel > Plugins & Products > Manage Products > Add/Import Product

Remember to "Allow Overwrite" if you are upgrading.

Usage

1. Create a new forum that will be your "source" forum; that is, this forum will contain your global threads. Get the forumid of this forum.
   
2. In your AdminCP --> vBulletin Options --> Global Threads make sure you:
   • enable it
   • enter in the forumid of your source forum
   • set the number of threads from the source forum to display
3. Make a new thread in your "source" forum and it will be displayed globally in other forums.

Mod Info
1 - Query
1 - Phrase
1 - Template
3 - Plugins
0 - Template Edits


v1.0.1
Added the option to exclude certain forums.
v1.0.0b
Initial release.

Please click "Install" if you have installed this mod! Thanks!

[|oR|Greg]

Well, got the broken piece fixed, but decided against the collapsable portion, not only do I not want users to be able to ignore important stuff, but I would have to make big template/plugin changes.

[YLP1]

Once the global topic is created and for example I have 10 forums, will the global topic be listed 10 times in the Latest Topics list or just once?

[|oR|Greg]

Just once, it's a thread just like any other, but what makes it Global is the plugin, the plugin queries any/all threads in the forum you specify and then outputs it in every OTHER forum.

[YLP1]

Thank You.......

[Slyfox1]

Love the addition. Only thing is I don't have the category name listed?

[|oR|Greg]

Category?

[Slyfox1]

Where you have your universal threads, directly above similar to the Stick and Normal category headings..

Universal Threads

Stick Threads

normal Threads..

Have a look > http://www.theuglybuggers.com/forum/...splay.php?f=29

[Slyfox1]

I know this is a hack of a hack so I understand the support implications...I'm very keen to try and get this working as shown in the PIC is it displays the threads exactly how I want to

So, I installed this on a clean board and had the same problem. For some reason the header for the announcements is being displayed..

Any chance you could help?

Cheers

Sly

[|oR|Greg]

If you followed my insturctions it should be working fine, make sure you didn't miss any steps, are you sure you added the template in, and the phrase?

[Slyfox1]

Code added to FORUMDISPLAY, code replaced in the merge_xx_xx plugin, phrase added (although I changed the text) FORUMDISPLAY_Seperate_global template added and code inserted

The only thing I wasn't sure of was with the phrase. NAME = delim_global, phrase type = GLOBAL, product = GLOBAL, text = Global Announcements.