Forum Display Enhancements - Global Threads for VB4

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.

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.

New Version: 2.02 - Fixed a conflict with the "Thread Links" mod.
New Version: 2.01 - 1 Bug Fix, +1 Extra Option (Choose to display above or below sticky divider if you have one.)

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: (VB3 Version)
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 won't work on any vBulletin version less than 4.0.0.

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.

Please Mark as Installed if you use this.

Note: See post #95 for info on how to fix this mod for VB 4.1.7.

See post #126 for an updated threadbit_global template for VB Versions 4.1.10 and above.

Note- I have released a new and better global thread mod and will no longer be supporting this version.

New Mod Link: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=279156

[BirdOPrey5]

ahh... thanks.

[Boofo]

If you look through some of the vb code you will see they also use that in a lot of places. There are a few they missed, but it is more of a standard now with links.

[Rizzler]

I have a little problem with your addon

I installed it on vBulletin 4.1.3 Patch Level 1 and i have enabled it, i created a forum called "Global" and set the "Forum Source" to that forum. I made a post in the "Global" forum but nothing shows up in all the other forums, do you know why ? :/

[BirdOPrey5]

Would you be able to give me a screenshot of settings page for this mod from your admin cp?

Also what permissions did you set for your global forum? Can you confirm you can browse to that forum (the threads aren't hidden)?

[Rizzler]

Here is an image of the panel: http://img830.imageshack.us/img830/9277/expbl.jpg

and yes i set the permissions to what the screenshot showed, i can browse it and se all threads but the forum wont show up as it is set to "no" on if it is active or not.

[BirdOPrey5]

Could you try changing the last option, "where to place global threads" to see if using a different setting will work at all?

[Rizzler]

ah thanks a lot the other 2 options are working fine, "Below Stickies -below Sticky Divide" however will not work.

[BirdOPrey5]

It looks like you need at least 1 regular post in the forum for Below Stickies -below Sticky Divide to work... Did you have any posts in the forum already?

[Rizzler]

Ye i had around 5 posts at the time.

im have another problem now with the new release of 4.1.4, here is a screenshot. http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/2412/expi.jpg

[BirdOPrey5]

Unfortunately that screenshot was resized pretty small, I can't see it well- but it looks like the gloabl threads have lost their formatting.

Must be a css change or something with VB 4.1.4... More unfortunate is my license doesn't let me download 4,1.4 so I can't fix this issue either.

If you can paste a copy of your threadbit template into a code box here I can see if there are updates I need to make to get this working on 4.1.4.