Post Icons unique to one forum?

[Auric]

Considering I'm unfortunately with Yahoo, I haven't the ability to purchase yet until I change to another host.

I am wondering about Post Icons - I want post icons of a certain type to be available only in one forum, all the other forums would have the generic ones. Am I able to do this? I want this because in this certain forum the poster would not likely be reponding to posts, but posting one post per thread, and I want the chosen icon to be beside each new thread post.

Is it possible to have one forum with different post Icons from the rest?

[feldon23]

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Well, I guess I have egg on my face. It's not hard-coded like I thought.

I know of no way to assign post icons by group.

[Auric]

I suppose what I may need to do is just add more icons and make it clear "somehow" that they are only to be used in a specified forum to visitors.

I see that certain icons can be made available to "types of user groups" / members assigned priveleges to use the icon category, but not able to make icons or smilies designated to one forum only.

Or considering user groups can be created, maybe it would be easiest to create a user group that people can become members of so they can get into the forum and have the icon category available to them. I wonder if that would work? Would it limit the members to be part of a usergroup I create, ie. are they stuck in that group, or can members be in more than one usergroup?

[feldon23]

As I clearly explained in the other topic, it is not possible to add any more post icons. There are exactly 14 icons hard-coded into the vBulletin software.

I do not believe you can have different post icons by usergroup, forum, style, etc.

[Auric]

According to the vBulletin Documentation Manual post icons can be added,




vBulletin offers two ways off adding Post Icons to you bulletin boards:
Add New Post Icon - allows you to add one or multiple Post Icons that have already been uploaded to your webserver
Upload Post Icons - enables you to upload an Post Icons from your local hard diskAdd New Post Icon

When you select the Add New Post Icon link in the Post Icon menu you are presented with the add Post Icon option screen. You have the option to either add a single Post Icon or to add multiple Post Icons.


To add a single Post Icon enter the following details and click the Add Post Icon button:


Title - enter the name or title you want to apply to the Post Icon.
Post Icon File Path - this can either be an URL of an image (e.g. http://www.example.com/images/icons/posticon.gif) or a path on your web server (e.g. "/www/sites/htdocs/images/icons/posticon.gif").
Post Icon Category - select the category you want to assign the Post Icon to
Display Order - This determines the order in which the post icons are shown. By default the next display order is assigned and can be changed at a later date.


Uploading Post Icons

Filename - enter the url or path for the Post Icon or use the Browse button to navigate to the required image
Title - enter a name for the Post Icon that is to be uploaded
Post Icon File Path - enter the location where the Post Icon should be upload to on you webserver. The file path should be both readable and writeable by your webserver
Post Icon Category - list all the available categories. Select a category that the Post Icon will be assigned to
Display Order - This determines the order in which the Post Icons are shown. By default the next display order is assigned and can be changed at a later dateOnce all the information has been entered and checked click the 'Upload' button. The Post Icons will then be uploaded to the specified folder.

Usergroups:

When the Post Icon Permission option is selected a list of all the defined usergroups will be displayed. Select Yes for each usergroup you want to be able to use Post Icons included in this category.

For example, if you have a selection of post icons that you want only administrators, moderators and super moderators to use. You would first need to create a category to contain these post icons, upload or move the specially selected post icons to the new category then set the permissions for that category so that only the Administrator, Moderators and Super Moderators usergroups can use the post icons in this category.

Usergroup permissions:

Access to various parts of your vBulletin installation is controlled by a rich and flexible permissions system. The basic unit which controls permissions is a usergroup. As you would expect, a usergroup is really just a group of any number of users.

Through this, you may control what this group of users is allowed to do on your board.

For example, perhaps you want only administrators to be able to post in a specific forum? Or only certain users to be able to attach files with their posts? Or maybe even allow a group of users to have their own user titles? These are all possible with usergroup permissions!

[feldon23]

I apologize for the wrong information then.

I still do not believe you can have different post icons by usergroup, forum, style, etc. I think they are forum-wide.