Members having problems viewing Announcements

[shunut]

<a href="http://www.spyder.tv/forums/announcement.php?f=75&a=29" target="_blank">http://www.spyder.tv/forums/announcement.php?f=75&a=29</a>

This is the URL I get. When I look in my history it says it is an announcement in a certain forum. The forum it says it is an announcement in is not an active forum and nobody has access to it besides me, it is also the last section on the site. I'm going to play with that section and see if I can fix it.

[jscieza]

So we need to check if this is a vBulletin bug or a issue with a plugin/hack/mod.

[shunut]

So I went to the forum that my announcements say they are from, when you click them in the "New Posts" window. It seems that the admin before me, instead of making it an inactive forum, just changed the permissions so that nobody had permission to view the forum, therefore nobody would see the forum, since it was closed. Unfortunately this still didn't fix the problem. I tested another announcement and when clicked on through "New Posts" it said it was from another section on the forum that is setup just for admins. What is the common thread? When the first forum was active, it was the last active section on the forum. Once that was set to inactive, the admin section was the last active section on the forum. So, it seems that when you click on the announcement through the "New Posts" it pulls the permissions from the last active section on the forum. I created another section and put it at the very bottom of the forum, gave everyone permissions in the section, but made it so nobody could see it. I haven't been able to test this but should hopefully be able to do so this morning.

[jscieza]

Interesting. I can confirm that behavior of the announcements in New Posts. I mean, New Posts is displaying announcements in this way: http://www.forosperu.net/announcement.php?f=XXX&a=YY

Where XXX is the forumid of the latest forum (sort order) when you go to AdminCP >> Forums & Moderators >> Forum Manager

But the issue appears to be that announcements are being displayed in New Posts when they shouldn't be according to vbenhancer. So a stock, unmodified vBulletin 3.8.x installation shows announcements in New Posts yes or not? That's what we need to know

[Lynne]

I have a 3.8.1 test site and announcements do show up in New Posts. However, again, on my sites, they do not have a forumid - /announcement.php?f=&a=1 I think that is the problem you guys are having. I'll bet a modification is setting the forumid and it is getting included in the link (a problem of NOT having to register variables is that a variable can get set anywhere and will show up anywhere).

[jscieza]

Hi Lynne, then it's a bug in vBulletin right? I mean, New Posts should properly display the announcement link (registering the variable 'forumid' in the URL)?

[shunut]

I have had my fix tested by many members and everyone seems to be able to view the announcements when they show up in New Posts.

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by jscieza

Hi Lynne, then it's a bug in vBulletin right? I mean, New Posts should properly display the announcement link (registering the variable 'forumid' in the URL)?

I'm not really sure. On both my 3.8 and my 4.x forums, there is no forumid in the announcement link and they work fine for everyone. There is something on you guys sites that is adding a forumid, and a forumid that isn't good for general users at that. If there is no forumid, then the annoucement id is still there - a=yyyy - and the link is valid. I think there is something on your sites that is adding a forumid in there when it should not be.

[jscieza]

Yes it looks like a mod is doing that thing. Issue here is that I have a lot of mods

[shunut]

Maybe we should compare mods then, since I only have 3.

I have:

1. AME - Automatic Media Embeding System
2. Forumrunner
3. Cyb - Advanced Permissions Mod