Highlighting Threads by Author's User Group

[greytone]

I want my thread list in each sub-forum to emphasize threads that were created by Administrators. For instance, have their name in red.

It would make sense to edit the memberaction_dropdown template because this is where the user names are printed, but I can't figure out what conditional statement to write. Any suggestions?

I already have the posts within a single thread doing custom styling on the username, but this doesn't affect the list of thread in a forum.

[Lynne]

Try a condition like (not exactly like this since I put a comment in it!):

<vb:if condition="is_member_of($memberinfo, x)">
<span style="whatever">{vb:raw memberinfo.username}
(or {vb:raw memberinfo.musername} )
</span>
<vb:else />
{vb:raw memberinfo.username}
(or {vb:raw memberinfo.musername} )
</vb:if>

Change x to the usergroup you want

[greytone]

Hi Lynne,

I'm afraid that your suggestion didn't work.
No matter what number I substitute for X, it never executes as "true".
I suspect that the $member variable doesn't evaluate.

Any other suggestions?

[Lynne]

Whoops, sorry, it is $memberinfo. And, I didn't do the else correctly (why did I write another if???).

A correct example for replacing the username (need to do the same for musername):

<vb:if condition="is_member_of($memberinfo, 6)">
<span style="color:red">{vb:raw memberinfo.username}</span>
<vb:else />
{vb:raw memberinfo.username}
</vb:if>

And, if you only want it on the forumdisplay page, you may need to add in the condition "AND THIS_SCRIPT=='forumdisplay'" also.

[greytone]

It works!

Thank you very much!

[dany_danay]

Hi, now i think its not woriking ...

[tbworld]

Originally Posted by dany_danay

Hi, now i think its not woriking ...

Please describe what is not working and where you are trying to implement @Lynnes code. We can only be as helpful as per the data you provide us. Most likely you are implementing @Lynne's code snippet incorrectly. Give your question another go.