Forum Display Enhancements - Global Threads for VB3

This mod is based off a VB 3.6 mod by randominity here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=129626
He gave me permission to further develop this mod.

It is ESSENTIAL if you upgrade to this version from the original 1.0.1 version you UNINSTALL the old one first. This isn't a suggestion, this is a REQUIREMENT.

This mod allows you to display "global threads" in your forums. Global Threads are threads that show up in every forum (or forums you specify) as opposed to just a single forum.

This is perfect for important site news, forum wide polls, and anything worthwhile to be displayed forum wide.

I know you could make an announcement but people ignore announcements, and you can't reply to them like threads. These are real threads and if you don't take away permission people can reply to it like any other thread. Replies in any forum show up in all forums.

Same thread in multiple forums:
http://www.juot.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=48
http://www.juot.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=43
http://www.juot.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=20
(It's under the sticky threads.)

This mod requires a little work on your side- you must first create a "global forum." I suggest calling it "Global Forum" and in the forum manager when creating it, choose to "Set Active" set to "No" so it won't show up in your forum lists but will be accessible directly by you to post new threads in.

I have greatly increased the number of options over the original mod and believe I have implemented all the good suggestions ever made for the original mod.

This version will work on vB 3.8.x and should work on 3.7.x too.

I have marked this as BETA as there is 1 unresolved minor bug- it has been a bug since this mod came out but no one seems to have noticed or cared. When showing global threads the small arrow indicating if you had posts in the global thread won't snow.

See screenshots for a Global Thread example. The Global Thread globe icon is optional.

Full instructions in zip file.

[MentaL]

cheers for this.

[home9000]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

I will see what I can do.

I know you are busy
just to remind you if you have time

[Crimdog]

Bumping this back from the dead:

Having an issue where the thread name is displaying one column to the right, rather than in the default position. Thoughts?

EDIT: I fixed that portion, seemed to be template issue with custom style.

Now, I can view everything if I'm an administrator, however my test user shows only a blue horizontal box with a new post icon to the left of this box. Thinking these two things are related.

[BirdOPrey5]

You should try it on the default style so as to be sure if it's a style issue or some other problem.

You can install the default style by going to Admin CP -> Style Manager -> Add a New Style -> Create a new style wit No parent style.

This will be the default style.

Make it user accessible, at least for a couple minutes, and let me know if it's working under the default style or not - if not a screenshot of what you see would help.

[Crimdog]

I figured it out, it was related to the above post I made with commenting out that "box" portion. I didn't comment the whole thing out, only a portion. That made the box take over the entire row.

All is good now

[mahmo0od]

nice mod
i will try it

[Crimdog]

Originally Posted by mahmo0od

nice mod
i will try it

It's a FANTASTIC mod. Excellent idea and already tons of use for it on our site. We used it to generate a site-wide "manifesto" or FAQ regarding technical issues pertaining to cars we tinker with.

[Morrus]

Awesome idea for a mod.

If you ever update it, can I make a feature request? Allow specific threads in the source forum to be tagged as global or not (i.e. just ignore threads not marked as such); that'll enable me to use my news forum as the source forum, but just make the threads about a specific subject appear also in a specific forum.

[BirdOPrey5]

If you ever upgrade to VB4 that is possible in the VB4 version: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=279156

[Morrus]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

If you ever upgrade to VB4 that is possible in the VB4 version

Heh. Never gonna happen. Nearly a decade of customization on our current vBulletin installation; it would take months of hard work to upgrade to vB4 at this point.