Shows all social groups the actual user is a member of or is subscribed to, just below the forumlist (or anywhere else on forumhome). If there are new messages, the corresponding forum statusicon is highlighted - just like in forumlist.
If there are no groups to show, you can choose to show a teaser message.
Things to set in AdminCP/Options:
show member of / subscribed to /nothing
sort by name or last message date
limit max number of groups shown, then link to appropriate page (grouplist for members, usercp for subscribers)
restrict use by usergroup
show a teaser message if there are no groups to show
show buttons to open new discussion etc.
apply custom css to grouptitle
trim group description to max length or disable
parse bbcode in group descriptions
use a different set of statusicons for groups than for forums
use .png for statusicons instead of .gif (global in AdminCP, per style in groupsbit template)
show groupicon instead of statusicon
Looks
Out of the box: I tried to copy the standard look of the forumlist on forumhome.
As requested, it is now fully templated (following the forumbit-scheme) for easy adjustment to custom styles.
See the screenshot of a modified example in this post.
Install/upgrade
Upload folder "images" to your forum root (can be omitted if you do not want to use the buttons).
Import the product file.
Check settings in AdminCP->Options->Social Groups on Forumhome.
Template edit Will be automatically inserted below your forums list if you are using TMS, which I highly recommend to do. If not:
Find:
HTML Code:
<!-- /main -->
Above add:
HTML Code:
$cel_social_groups
If you don't like it there, you can insert $cel_social_groups anywhere you like on forumhome.
Technical stuff
1 product file that adds
+ 3 templates (following the forumbit-scheme)
+ 3 plugins
+ adds 2 queries to forumhome (only if groups are shown, of course).
+ a bunch of phrases (prefix: cel_sgfh_).
+ 4 png-buttons, taken from the silk icon set.
Limitations
Marking of new messages only works with database, not with cookie based marking of read threads (-> AdminCP setting) Explanation: This mod relys on the information in the database when a discussion was last read by the actual user. If you rely on cookies for this, you can use this mod anyway, but there will be no marking if there are unread messages by changed statusicons.
3.7 Discussion groups will show up as "no messages yet" as long as there was no message written under 3.8 Explanation: When converting the old 3.7 message board into a discussion, Jelsoft was a little bit slack. While normally all the information about the last updated discussion is stored in the socialgroups table, this information is not entered for the auto-created discussion. For example: The discussion ID for the last updated discussion simply is 0 instead of the actual id of the auto created discussion. Therefore, this mod can not retrieve the information it needs since the discussion is not linked to the social group. This only changes when the first message under 3.8 is written.
Not a bug note: In vB 3.8 there was an issue where the last discussion title was not correctly updated by vB in the socialgroup table. This would lead this mod to show a wrong last discussion title under some circumstances. This was resolved in 3.8.1.
See Bugtracker: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/proje...?issueid=27176
Version history
v 1.4
+ some bugfixes
+ option to turn teaser message off
+ option to show several buttons: to start a new discussion - see the group's members list - see the group' photos (only shown if there are any attached pictures) - unsubscribe (only if subscribed groups are shown) (Thanks to glorify) 1.4.1: Template/Style error in Google Chrome fixed
v 1.3 + now fully templated. New templates: forumhome_cel_social_groups_groupsbit and forumhome_cel_social_groups_lastmsgby. 1.3.1: Link to user profile error fixed
v 1.2 + added option to sort groups by date of last message
+ added missing phrase
v 1.1
+ improved database query
+ limitations somewhat lessened
+ added settings page to AdminCP
+ choose whether to show groups the user is a member of or subscribed to
+ limit number of groups shown, then link to appropriate page
+ restrict use by usergroup
+ some minor bugfixes
Planned features (no promises made!)
none atm
[s]option to use a set of different statusicons for the groups [/s]
[s]option to use the social group's icon instead of the statusicon[/s]
[s]and to go with that, for additional/substitunional unread marking, possibility to add css markup to the social group's title[/s]
Had to uninstall it. Seems no one's posts were showing up in any of the forums. On forum home you would see them, but when you went to the forum itself, no posts showed up from the time the mod was installed.
This mod is not about forums, it's about social groups. So I'm not really sure what your problem was or is. If I am to help you on this, I will require a significantly clearer description of what the problem is and what you are doing.
If I'm guessing right: There's no function in this mod that possibly could prevent posts to social groups discussions inside the social groups system from being displayed. This mod does not mess in any way with the social groups system as is, it only qeries information from the database and displays it - and it does so only on Forumhome.
This mod is not about forums, it's about social groups. So I'm not really sure what your problem was or is. If I am to help you on this, I will require a significantly clearer description of what the problem is and what you are doing.
If I'm guessing right: There's no function in this mod that possibly could prevent posts to social groups discussions inside the social groups system from being displayed. This mod does not mess in any way with the social groups system as is, it only qeries information from the database and displays it - and it does so only on Forumhome.
Thanks for the response. The posts that don't show are in the forum, not the posts in the social groups. Example. I create a thread in one of our forums called chit chat. On the forum home page, on the right hand side it shows the most recent post in that forum, hence the new thread. But when I click on the chit chat forum, the thread is not there. Nor are any new posts any member made. Once I disabled the mod, the posts and thread appeared. Maybe this is clashing with another modification.
Enhanced core feature: checking for unread messages
Explanation: up to now, the mod only took into account the last message in a social group, meaning: if the user read the last message, but there were still unread messages in other discussions, the group was marked as read anyway. This has now been changed: As long as there are *any* unread messages in a social group, it will be marked as containing unread messages. When checking the mod takes into account the database Read Marking Limit set in vB options, i.e. after a certain number of days messages will no longer be taken into account.
Cost: This feature adds one additional query to forumhome (not per group listed, but overall). This means that this mod adds 2 queries alltogether.
New Options in AdminCP
apply custom css formatting to grouptitle
trim group description or disable it (will trim at spaces only, not inside words)
parse bbcode in group descriptions (cannot be used together with trimming as closing tags might get lost)
option to use a statusicon different from the forums (see instructions in AdminCP options)
use .png instead of .gif files for statusicons
show groupicon instead of statusicon (marking of new groups via grouptitle css)
User's Social Groups on Forum Home (like forumlist, fully templated) Details »»
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04-20-2009, 01:18 PM
