Forum Display Enhancements - Make Prefixes Clickable to Filter Forumdisplay

This is another modification which should be standard vbulletin. I wrote a template modification, but have now written one that is just a plugin. This template modification will make your thread prefixes clickable. If you click on the prefix, then the forumdisplay will only show threads with that prefix in that forum. Then, if you click on the prefix again, it will show all the threads.

Click to Filter Forum by this Prefixid:


Click to Show All Threads:


Version History:
1.0 2009-12-22: - initial release by Lynne at vbulletin.org
1.1 2010-01-05 - fixed issue of bad link showing up in search results - clickable prefixes will only show on forumdisplay as they are supposed to now.

To Install:

1. Import product-lynne_click_prefix.xml

To Uninstall:

1. Uninstall "Make Prefixes Clickable to Filter Forumdisplay"

Translations:
Thank you to Luca_ITA for the Italian phrase translations.
Thank you to yjeanrenaud for the German phrase translations.
Thank you to eTiKeT? for the Turkish phrase translations.

[Baja]

Yup, it turns out another admin accidentally deleted the prefixes.

It's working fine in 4.1.8 too.

Thanks for the replies!

[Athena1984]

This is very useful and like another user said, should be default! Thanks so much for making it.

[sportsfroma2]

my prefixes are still clickable in 4.1.11, lol... great mod, very low maintenance


I keep forgetting this isn't default vB behavior

[Nirjonadda]

Installed working on 4.1.10

[Skierpetros]

Invalid File it says when i try to upload the .xml

On 4.1.10

[Beckenbauer]

I love this mod. Thanks!
Is it possible to remove the Filter?

Or only with the return button?

[Lynne]

I don't know what you mean.

[ywwz]

working on 4.1.11

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by ywwz

working on 4.1.11

Thank you for posting this. It really helps to have members post about whether the mod is working in newer versions.

[addamroy]

Great mod Lynne I'm pretty sure I have it marked as installed (it's installed on my forum)

I have one issue i'm not sure if there's a really simple workaround or not, but is there any way to filter threads by more than one prefix at a time?

Example,

http://www.yourforumhere.com/forumdisplay.php/398-forum-name-here?prefixid=prefix_id_1

will show all threads with prefix id prefix_id_1

But I need a way to show threads with more than one prefix at a time.

Like if below was possible,

http://www.yourforumhere.com/forumdisplay.php/398-forum-name-here?prefixid=prefix_id_1&prefix_id_2&prefix_id_3

would show all threads with prefix id prefix_id_1, prefix_id_2, and prefix_id_3 at the same time.

Essentially I've got a forum with 50 different category options, and 6 sub-category options for each of those and I have a prefix for each one individually.

Example, I have my prefixes set up pretty much like this, each line is 1 prefix

category1 - subcategory1
category1 - subcategory2
category1 - subcategory3
category1 - subcategory4
category1 - subcategory5
category1 - subcategory6

category2 - subcategory1
category2 - subcategory2
category2 - subcategory3
category2 - subcategory4
category2 - subcategory5
category2 - subcategory6

etc etc. The above example is a total of 12 prefixes.

So in my case, it would be awesome to be able to show all threads from any of the category 1 prefixes at once.

Is this possible at all, possibly with some minor adjustments? This would be hugely beneficial.

For me personally i don't even care that the prefixes are clickable, but it provides that static URL you can use. I use it to essentially make a table of contents using all the URLs for each prefix. Essentially I want to put a link in this table of contents that goes to a page showing threads with multiple prefixes at a time.