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.

[Antonio Pereira]

Originally Posted by consolegaming

Sorry about lack of updates. The VB 4 version was basically done shortly after my last post in this thread but unfortunately the test site I've been working on went down shortly after that lol. I'm told it should be back up again very soon (i.e. next few days) so once it is I'll get it ready for posting on here.

Apologies.

PS: Yeah this version works just fine for 3.8.

Any news?
I love this mod:up:

Best Regards

[consolegaming]

Yeah sorry still waiting I'm afraid. The site's back up just not the database that the forum was installed to. Once it's up and posted I'll PM the people who have asked about the VB 4 version to let them know it's ready.

[MrD]

Hi,
sounds like good for a vb4 port

[consolegaming]

Sorry about the very long wait guys. Unfortunately what I'd already started is long gone so I've had to do it from scratch. So I made a start again a few days ago. I should have something released within the next couple of weeks. I'm also working with 5 groups on this version rather than the 3 that was done for this version. Still not fully configurable though.

I've pretty much got it working now but it produces a lot of invalid html due to the listing structure that they now use for the member list. Plus I'd like to get it running on our own live forum to make sure it is working properly. Which I'm hoping to do at the weekend. Plus I'll need to make sure the install code is done properly.

[consolegaming]

An update to my previous post. I've got it working pretty well now. No Validation issues, does mean there will be a template edit though (2 lines of CSS) but it's a lot less messier than what I'd done the first time round. So having to do it again was a bit of a blessing lol. Still not ready yet though. Installation code for example still needs to be sorted. Not upgraded our live site yet either.

EDIT: Changed a few more things around for my 4.x version. The names of the groups are now managed in the VB options. I've created a separate section for it too rather than being in the Forum Home Settings.

[MrD]

Hi,
thats are good news

[consolegaming]

It's taken a while but it's finally been released. I'll be informing those who have asked about the 4.0.x version tomorrow. Some of the details like screenshots still need to be sorted but it's mostly the same just the names of the groups are now handled through the vbulletin options instead of phrases.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=243233

[Forumkentimiz]

How can we also show that the attachment vBadvanced

[consolegaming]

Sorry? Don't really know much about the vBadvanced plugin. And don't really follow your question. Are you asking how to get this working for the vBadvanced plugin?

Assuming that they have an online user listing then I guess it depends on how they've done it.

[vBRiP]

thanks for the great mods, if you can update this, get the total number member of that group?
example:

Team (5):
VIP (15):
etc...
that would be great.
hope to from you soon.