Forum Home Enhancements - Split Useronline on Forumhome

Description
Splits the User Online section on the Forum Home to allow for staff/team members and users to be separated into groups. This is a new version of Surviver's original modification which was made for vBulletin 3.6.4. This new product was made with Survivor's permission and is heavily based upon the original modification.

The original modification can be found here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=135771

Features

• Currently allows for three different types of extra users (Team, Premium and VIP) on top of the usual members.
• This is now controlled through the usergroup manager whereby you can select Yes or No for each of the three types of users.
• Fixes the saving issue experienced by users of the previous modification running vBulletin 3.7.

Installation

1. Upload all necessary files to their respective directories.
2. Install the product XML file.
3. Turn on the Split Useronline tool (vBulletin Options -> Forum Home Page Options -> Split Useronline - Yes.
4. Implement small template edit (see below).
5. Set relevant permissions for each usergroup.

Upgrade
Unfortunately anyone wishing to upgrade from the previous modification to this will be unable to. I was advised to create this as a seperate product to avoid any potential conflicts in the future, and also due to the differences in how the settings are done there would have been no way to keep the saved settings anyway.

However anyone who has already experienced the saving issue with the existing Product will have already lost their settings.

Template Edit

1. Open the forumhome_loggedinuser template.
   
2. Find:
   

   <if condition="$show['comma_leader']">, </if>

3. Replace with:
   

   <if condition="$show['comma_leader']"> </if>

Author Notes
The change of location for the settings was done for two reasons: it was easier to sort out and I wanted the settings to be more logically placed. This allows for anyone with several 'team' usergroups to create new usergroups based on the permissions of an existing one therefore keeping the relevant permissions. Meaning it should make things easier in the long term.

Credit for the original modification obviously goes to Surviver as mentioned at the top. Also the credit for the above template edit goes to GamerGirl27 though I will be trying to find a solution that removes the need for any template edits.

[Senti.Jatt]

no support..to be honest its shit for me now mod with no support sucks

[consolegaming]

Originally Posted by Senti.Jatt

no support..to be honest its shit for me now mod with no support sucks

Sorry I started a full time job very recently and life's been a bit hectic as a result, I have just replied to your and prism's pm's. And I had already given a brief explanation on how to alter the names of the groups in response to a question on the first page. Though it may well be worth adding into the main mod details to make it more clear until a point where I can make the groups completely editable. Though making the number of groups editable is a significantly more difficult task.

Concerning this userlegend hack could you perhaps link me to it? (either here or through pm) and I'll get it installed on my test site and see what would be causing it. If anyone used the old version of this hack did the same issue occur with that? If not then I do apologize about that and I'll see what can be done once I have the details of the specific mod.

[Senti.Jatt]

Originally Posted by consolegaming

Sorry I started a full time job very recently and life's been a bit hectic as a result, I have just replied to your and prism's pm's. And I had already given a brief explanation on how to alter the names of the groups in response to a question on the first page. Though it may well be worth adding into the main mod details to make it more clear until a point where I can make the groups completely editable. Though making the number of groups editable is a significantly more difficult task.

Concerning this userlegend hack could you perhaps link me to it? (either here or through pm) and I'll get it installed on my test site and see what would be causing it. If anyone used the old version of this hack did the same issue occur with that? If not then I do apologize about that and I'll see what can be done once I have the details of the specific mod.

thanks man its all solved now and thanks for ur help i appreciate it

[consolegaming]

No problem, I managed to find about three user legend hacks so I'm not sure which one people are talking about? If someone would kindly link me to the one they were talking about I'd gladly get it installed to try and investigate the issue described. If it's the one Survivor created for 3.6 then it looks like that is another hack that needs to be upgraded as again it doesn't work properly (doesn't save settings again) on 3.7. I see two hacks on 3.7 though that do work, but haven't tested them with with my own hack yet, will try that shortly if no-one answers my question .

[Senti.Jatt]

it doesn't work with userlegend thats why i have manually edited template for userlegends

[org knopper]

i have vb 3.7.2 but srangely this one doesnt work on my site and 3.6.x version does work dats strange and also i would like to know how do i add specific usergrps to certain level like team etc and also to have more categories like Programmers,VIP.Hope i get reply soon !

[org knopper]

It doesnt even show in my VBoptions ? No replies yet ?

[consolegaming]

Sorry I've had some computer problems recently which resulted in my computer being away for close to a month. It sounds like it isn't even installed in all honesty :S. Are you sure you followed all the installation instructions?

i.e. Uploading the file/s I provided to the correct directories? I'd be happy to take a look in your admincp for you if you wish. And I do apologize about the very late response time but circumstances have been out of my hand unfortunately.

[org knopper]

I tried everything it shows in forum home page opions but not in VBoptions(if it should show).Also when i select various grps for various level n press save they are atomatically removed from it.Any idea why its happening ?

[consolegaming]

From Correct me if I;m wrong but Forum Home Page Options is inside VB Options? Basically there's just a single setting in there which turns it on or off. if that option is not showing then it sounds like the xml for the vboptions hasnt been uploaded properly or at least that it can't find it. I'm asuming you've tried uninstalling and re-installing.

I'm actually on a different pc at the moment so don't have access to all my files but I'll re-download the mod over the weekend and take a look to see if I can find anything more concrete for you.