[venom2124]

Originally Posted by RichieBoy67

Hey guys,

I need this or something similar in one of my forum sites to be used only in a site support sub-forum. I have not read every single post in this thread so excuse me if this has been covered.

I understand it uses usergroup permissions. This is fine and I suppose it would not be hard to add a conditional for forums as well. Has anyone done this? I do not want moderators and admins to have the option to mark solved all over the site.

I would also like to know if anyone has this working successfully on 4.2 with a custom theme. if so did you have to customize? Does this use existing css or it's own?
If you could supply a link so I can test that would be awesome.

Thanks,
Rich

This mod will allow you to specify which forums the mod will work on. It should also not be affected by custom styles.

[findingpeace]

Great mod, works perfectly on 4.2.1! Be sure to set Usergroup permissions first, otherwise the Prefixes settings won't give you the option for forum permissions

[Wolver2]

Guys how can I add it as a new button "Solved" beside the +Reply to thread.. because the button where it is now isnt very seen.. no one will notice

I would gladly donate to someone who could do this for me

[Tim Wheatley]

Originally Posted by findingpeace

Great mod, works perfectly on 4.2.1! Be sure to set Usergroup permissions first, otherwise the Prefixes settings won't give you the option for forum permissions

I'm a new installer onto 4.2.1. Have set permissions in usergroup, permissions for the prefixes, and selected which forums to show in... and it doesn't show in the dropdown. Yes, template edited as instructed, files uploaded, and product installed.

[Tim Wheatley]

Super... I tried to remove the product, got a fatal error. so I installed it again, overwriting. Now when I try to set usergroups to yes:
MySQL Error : Unknown column 'solvedthread_permissions' in 'field list'

[Tim Wheatley]

Had to alter the uninstall code to get it to uninstall without the fatal error.

[karel1985]

Hi Eric,

As user of your mod since the beginning, i'm wondering if you are working on a vb5 version? I would really need to have this working in vb5...

Without this mod, we will never upgrade i guess, we can't live without...

[ozzy47]

I believe another developer would have to pick up work on the mod to port it to vB5 as Eric said, he is very limited with time as of now.

[PrivateFTA]

let me know if I can do several way to use a new place to settle and accepted our

[djvj]

Does this work on 4.2.2?

NM, just tested and it works fine.

[john7911]

I install it on 4.2.2 but I don't see it in the list.

[aminp30]

Hi
thank you Eric. very nice hack

would you please tell me is that possible to use this hack as a button?
I need to add a button in first post of thread to let starter set solved or not.

best regards

[fxdigi-cash]

Originally Posted by aminp30

Hi
thank you Eric. very nice hack

would you please tell me is that possible to use this hack as a button?
I need to add a button in first post of thread to let starter set solved or not.

best regards

maybe you didn't read whole main post...

from there, this code you need to add it to your showthread template to see the button:

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

[majickal]

I can confirm this is working on 4.2.2 Patch Level 1

[majickal]

Is there anyway to remove the following prefix option when starting a new thread in a Q & A forum?



I guess, I'm wondering if there is some form of identifier I can test against to hide this option when a forum is detected that is running the solved feature.

I found this:



But am currently unsure how it is evaluated when the newthread template is evaluated.

The following code block shows the section in the section I am referring to:

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

I'll keep digging and if I find a solution, I'll post it, else if someone else knows, please let me know.

Cheers

M

update

I have had some success with this:

Starting @ line 45 in the newthread template, find the code noted above and replace with the one below:

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

you will note in the following line:

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

You will need to change the number 16 for whatever your Q & A forumid is.

To find this out, you can execute the following SQL against your DB:

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

This will provide you a list of all forums where you have selected them as Q & A type forums as shown below: (I'm using mysql workbench in this example)



Hope this helps someone.

Next I'll see if I can get an array of forums based on the table forumprefixset

SQL will be something like:

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

Once I can get this into an array and register that array as a variable vBulletin can accept, perhaps I can test against that array in the template and not have to manually code the forum ids in. This would mean a one time change in the newthread template and any forum could have this feature.

Any help with this would be really awesome as I am really unfamiliar with the vBulletin codebase and have just started looking into it.


I'll report back as I make progress.

Cheers

M

Update

Can select from an array now

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

Update

So I got this working,

I created a new plugin by using the Add New Plugin in the Products & Plugins section as shown below. The only reason I went down this route is to avoid changing any of the original plugins code. So I hope this method for extending the plugin is OK.



Then I added the following PHP code:

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

Finally in the newthread template, as noted in the above template edits, the following change was made:

Find:

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

Replace with:

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

The core bit of information I was missing, was the method used to return variables from PHP in a way that they can be used in conditional statements in vBulletin templates. This eluded me for a while but was the key to making the changes I required work. See below for the exact code I used to register the PHP variable for use in the template system:

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

As soon as this variable was registered, everything fell into place.

You could easily modify the original Plugins PHP code to return this information. It is probably the best way forward too, as the method outlined in this post does add an additional query, which is not really required, as the same query exists in the original plugin. As stated previously, I did this to:

1. Separate the test/modification code from the actual plugin code
2. Avoid changin the plugin code as I am not 100% sure if this is an OK thing to do?
3. Teach myself and provide an example to others how to accomplish such modifications to the original plugin without changing any of the core plugin code.

I hope this helps someone else understand how this system works. I'll continue to extend this plugin via the separate plugin code.

Unless anyone has an issue with it, I'll keep posting updates on my progress.

Hope you have found this useful.

Cheers

M