Sidebar view of Group Discussions
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Re: Sidebar view of Group Discussions
Mac,
I just checked in the admin controls and there's no way I can see. I did set the sidebar to list discussions with new replies above discussions that were themselves new, maybe that will help a little. I'll have to go ask over on the vB boards to see if there's a workaround.
Mac,
I just checked in the admin controls and there's no way I can see. I did set the sidebar to list discussions with new replies above discussions that were themselves new, maybe that will help a little. I'll have to go ask over on the vB boards to see if there's a workaround.
Silas Pradetto
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Also, the group discussions seem to be limited to 1000 characters per post. I just hit the limit listing my rental gear. Any way to increase the limit?
Also, the group discussions seem to be limited to 1000 characters per post. I just hit the limit listing my rental gear. Any way to increase the limit?
Re: Sidebar view of Group Discussions
Mac,
I started this thread over at vBulletin support and they say I'd have to write some custom code to make that work. I'm not going to have time to look into that for maybe ever, I know PHP well enough but not vB's coding backend. I will ask over at vBulletin.org, the official modifications site, and see if maybe someone has already done it.
Mac,
I started this thread over at vBulletin support and they say I'd have to write some custom code to make that work. I'm not going to have time to look into that for maybe ever, I know PHP well enough but not vB's coding backend. I will ask over at vBulletin.org, the official modifications site, and see if maybe someone has already done it.
Re: Sidebar view of Group Discussions
Mac,
After some back and forth at the vB modifications site it looks like there aren't the proper hooks in the vB backend to do this. Even if it might be possible to only show groups that the user is subscribed to, then users subscribed to no groups will see nothing. There is no ability to have this set on a user by user level. Since that sidebar is there largely to keep general users abreast of group discussion, unless they can come up with a way that just you can only see groups you're subscribed to it's not feasible.
I'll let you know if I find anything else out.
Mac,
After some back and forth at the vB modifications site it looks like there aren't the proper hooks in the vB backend to do this. Even if it might be possible to only show groups that the user is subscribed to, then users subscribed to no groups will see nothing. There is no ability to have this set on a user by user level. Since that sidebar is there largely to keep general users abreast of group discussion, unless they can come up with a way that just you can only see groups you're subscribed to it's not feasible.
I'll let you know if I find anything else out.
Re: Sidebar view of Group Discussions
There's these 2 mods:
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=228280
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=221581
I think the 2nd one would be a nice addition.
It's a bit ridiculous that even if you subscribe to a group, you don't get any notification via e-mail or otherwise when a new group message happens, but groups seem to be a VERY watered-down version of the forums. Nobody knows why.
There's these 2 mods:
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=228280
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=221581
I think the 2nd one would be a nice addition.
It's a bit ridiculous that even if you subscribe to a group, you don't get any notification via e-mail or otherwise when a new group message happens, but groups seem to be a VERY watered-down version of the forums. Nobody knows why.
Re: Sidebar view of Group Discussions
Those are great! Better to add this functionality than try and hack the sidebar display... We'll check those out on the test site and upgrade this site once we're sure they work right.
Those are great! Better to add this functionality than try and hack the sidebar display... We'll check those out on the test site and upgrade this site once we're sure they work right.
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