Show Thread Enhancements - First Post Editable Indefinitely

I'm just reposting my 4.0 mod into the 3.8 section since it works just fine on a 3.8 board also.

Sometimes you want your users to be able to edit the first post in their thread indefinitely but still have a time limit on all other posts in the thread. This would be useful if they want to constantly update their first thread with new information, or an updated list of some sort way past the normal editing time limit. This modification will allow them to edit that first post indefinitely.

Notes
- I wrote this for my own site and it works exactly how I want it to. I have no plans to change it or expand it in any way
- No, you may not change the time limit, this only works for if the time limit for the first post is 0 - indefinite.

Version History:
1.1 2009-11-22: - initial release in 3.8 section by Lynne at vbulletin.org

To install:

1. Import product-lynne_first_post_editable.xml
2. By default, editing first post indefinitely is Off per forum. To turn it on, go into the Forum Manager > select your forum to Edit > Make first post in thread editable indefinitely > Yes

To uninstall:

1. Uninstall "First Post Editable Indefinitely"

[el-q6ri]

is there a way to give a usergroup a time to edit and other unlimeted time to edit ?

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by el-q6ri

is there a way to give a usergroup a time to edit and other unlimeted time to edit ?

It wasn't written to be a usergroup option, but I suppose you could go through the plugins and just put a condition around them to only be run if you are in usergroup xxx.

[Vibhor]

Hi,

I'm still not able to figure out how I can make thread titles indefinitely editable too (Specific forum only). Setting this in vBulletin Options will make titles editable for the defined time limit for all the forums. Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

[Lynne]

I don't know. Perhaps you can modify this modification to make it do a per forum title editable also, but I haven't looked into it and it isn't currently part of this modification.

[Vibhor]

The issue is that members cannot update their thread titles while updating opening posts which I believe should be possible. Updating "Title" field only updates the title of opening post and not that of the thread. Not sure if it's a bug or we can get around with this with a slight tune up?

[iRO Wiki]

I was needing to do exactly this, on a forum by forum basis, so headed over here to search around and find this. It didn't work 3.8.5. However, the following did work:

Originally Posted by scourge

SighK,

I just had the same problem, here's what fixed it for me in 3.8.4

Open up the .xml file and on line 52, replace $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] with $this->registry->userinfo['userid']

Save it, re-upload it and it should work.

Thank you Lynne for the excellent mod and thanks scourge for the fix!

[Lynne]

I'm glad he posted that and that it worked for you. I do not have a 3.8.4/5/6/7 site to test this on.