Showing who a post is TO

[BBH]

vBull world,

Forgive me. This is my fist post here.

I am the administrator for an 8000 person private forum and we just installed vBulletin a few months ago.

Though our new forum has been well liked, the two things that my members HATE are:

1) There is no link that shows the users posts which have been written to only them. (Yes we have told users that User CP and New Posts will show subscribed threads & all new threads, and we have instructed them on how to subscribe and unsubscribe threads.) They would still like a link that finds and lists posts written specifically in response to posts they wrote.

Is there such an add-on or way that I can give them this tool?

2) Our old forum was a CompuServe forum with a threaded mode somewhat like the standard threaded mode in vBulletin except that it did not ever limit the tree-list depth. VBulletin does limit that depth and we have very long threads!

Is there a modification or add-on that displays threaded mode with higher depth? I have looked in Admin CP and can find no setting for thread display depth.

Thanks in advance for any help on this.

BBH

[darnoldy]

Originally Posted by BBH

This is my fist post here.

Welcome, from another CIS expatriot.

There are many of us with the same wishlist.

--don

[BBH]

Originally Posted by darnoldy

Welcome, from another CIS expatriot.

There are many of us with the same wishlist.

--don

This is not that hard (except that I don't know PHP yet).

The post relationship is easy. 'Postid' of parent post (containing name) = 'parentid' in the child posts. To build a list of what a user has posted just select * from post where user,userid = post,userid THEN spin through that list with select * from post where parentid = (previous list's) postid.

My problem is I'm completely new to all of this. I know SQL and I can program; but I'm completely drowning in new terminology. :ermm:

Can you point me to other threads with the same request and maybe some code???



Bern

[darnoldy]

Originally Posted by BBH

Can you point me to other threads with the same request and maybe some code?

sure-
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=73127
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=144883
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=74558

These threads, though not directly applicable, help illustrate the mindset that has hindered the development of the feature we seek:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=123403
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=74763

--don

[BBH]

Thank you Don! That made for some good reading.

I asked that one guy if his hack would work on 3.6.2. I see what he says.

I like that the effect is to show the info in the title attribute of the post pains. If it works, that would be effective.

Bern