Social Group and Album Enhancements - View all your social group messages

A page to display all the messages in all the groups a user has joined.

I have found on my forums, that it is hard to keep up with new messages in your social groups. You have to go to each individual group and see if there is anything new. So, I created this page to list all the messages in your social groups in date descending order.

[s]You will need to create two new templates and upload one file.[/s] edit: The two templates and the phrases for this modification are now included in a product.

The users may either view All My Groups and see the messages from all their groups in the list, or they may select one of the groups they belong to and see just the messages in that group. I used the option vboptions > Message Searching Options > Maximum Search Results to Return to set maximum results shown.

Version History:
1.0 2009-02-12:
- initial release by Lynne at vbulletin.org

1.2 2009-03-12:
- fully phrased, templates now in product to import.
- added option to view only messages from single group
- used vboptions > Message Searching Options > Maximum Search Results to Return to set maximum results shown
- cached all bbcode templates
- AFTER INSTALL OF PRODUCT, YOU WILL HAVE TO REVERT THE TWO TEMPLATES (socialgroups_messagelist and socialgroups_messagelistbits) IF YOU HAD INSTALLED THIS PREVIOUSLY (or else you will still be using the original templates)


Please mark INSTALL if you find this useful.

[Big-K]

Hi Lynne,

I've become a huge fan of your social group hacks. This one works seamlessly too but the question is how do members link to this? Should there be a link somewhere on the Social Groups landing page?

An unrelated question:
Is there a way to make social groups members list look like the three-columned friends list on the profile page i.e - profile.php?do=buddylist?

[Lynne]

I added the link under the Community Links dropdown. This is what I have in place of just the Social Groups link in that dropdown:

        <if condition="$show['quick_links_groups']">
                    <tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/group.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[social_groups]</a></td></tr>
                    <tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/group.php?$session[sessionurl]do=grouplist">- View All Groups</a></td></tr>
                    <tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/messagelist.php?$session[sessionurl]do=list">- Your Group Messages</a></td></tr>
        </if>

The "Your Group Messages" is the link for this page.

[drsli]

Thank you for this handy function!

[Merriweather]

It appears that the messages are not grouped by which group they are in, just by order of posting? So if I am in 5 groups with 3 discussions each, I am going to have 15 different discussion threads showing their posts all mixed up?

What I was hoping is that it groups by group and then discussion, perhaps with a link to collapse each discussion/group. i.e.:

Group 1 (Collapsible)
-- Discussion 1 (Collapsible)
---- Post
---- Post
---- Post
-- Discussion 2 (Collapsible)
---- Post
---- Post
---- Post

Group 2 (Collapsible)
-- Discussion 1 (Collapsible)
---- Post
---- Post
---- Post
---- Post
---- Post
-- Discussion 2 (Collapsible)
---- Post
---- Post

Group 3 (Collapsible)
-- Discussion 1 (Collapsible)
---- Post
---- Post
-- Discussion 2 (Collapsible)
---- Post
---- Post
---- Post
---- Post
---- Post

etc... Can you describe to me how the mod lists the posts?

Thank you!

[ragtek]

Why you hadn't create a product where the 2 templates are in?*g*

[Lynne]

This was written to simply show the latest posts in all the discussions in all the groups you are a member in. So, it is ordered by date.

[Merriweather]

Can you set the number of latest posts it shows?

[Lynne]

I actually modified this on my site so you may select to see messages from just one group also. And I added in the $vboptions['maxresults'] to use to show only x amount of results (that is the variable set in vboptions > message searching options > max search results to return). I'll post the new version within the next couple of days.

[Lynne]

OK, I uploaded version 1.2 of this:

1.2 2009-03-12:
- fully phrased, templates now in product to import.
- added option to view only messages from single group
- used vboptions > Message Searching Options > Maximum Search Results to Return to set maximum results shown
- cached all bbcode templates
- AFTER INSTALL OF PRODUCT, YOU WILL HAVE TO REVERT THE TWO TEMPLATES (socialgroups_messagelist and socialgroups_messagelistbits) IF YOU HAD INSTALLED THIS PREVIOUSLY (or else you will still be using the original templates)

Originally Posted by ragtek

Why you hadn't create a product where the 2 templates are in?*g*

It is now. I don't know why I didn't before.

[Keesa]

I am not seeing where they should be able to see this once it is installed?

I also have this hack installed...
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=204335

Could that be the problem?