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[grimholtt]

I was hoping to encourage new members to our forums to really read the forums rather than just clicking on the "New Posts" link at the top. Is there a way to set up a rule that you have to have over "X" number of posts before the New Posts link would show up for you?

Thanks in advance!!

Josh/Grim

[popowich]

If you want to lock out the new posts link you can wrap it with a usergroup conditional.

You'd need to have your registered members promoted to another group after they have made 10 posts.

Once they are no longer registered members they would be able to view the link.

-Raymond

[grimholtt]

Hmm, is there a way to automate that process or would I have to monitor all the new members to see when they go over the set limit and manually upgrade them?

[popowich]

admincp -> usergroups -> promotions

[grimholtt]

Ok.. Man, I really appreciate your help. I see how to do the promotion now.

How do I wrap the New User Link with a usergroup conditional? This is beyond the skill level of anything I've done up to date.

Thanks again for your assistance.

[Mikey]

Go to vBulltin AdminCP > Styles & Templates > YourStyleName > navbar...

Find

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="search.php?$session[sessionurl]do=getnew" accesskey="2">$vbphrase[new_posts_nav]</a></td>

replace with

<if condition="$post['usergroupid'] != x"><td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="search.php?$session[sessionurl]do=getnew" accesskey="2">$vbphrase[new_posts_nav]</a></td></if>

Where 'x' is the "Below 10 posters" Usergroup ID.

[grimholtt]

You guys rock. Thanks a ton.

[grimholtt]

I hate to bug you guys again, but I'm having an issue with the promotions.

Basically, I'm running vBulletin 3.8.2. We are a website dedicated to a Guild of Gamers.
Our basic setup is that when someone wants to join the guild, the register through the standard email registration. Once that comes back, they are added to the Primary Usergroup "Registered User". They then put in an application to join the guild. If they are accepted, I manually add them to the "Tribe Member" usergroup which is in the additional usergroups category. Their primary usergroup is still Registered User.

As stated above I would like to set it up so that those in the Tribe Member usergroup will not see the New Posts link in the navbar until after they have posted 50 times. I have not used the code supplied above yet because I don't want to deprive the active members of it's use.

I created a new Usergroup called "Active Tribe Members" and based it off of the Tribe Member usergroup. My goal would be to have all new members be added to the Tribe member usergroup when they are accepted and after 50 posts automatically be promoted into the Active tribe Member user group so that they will have access to the New Posts link on the navbar.

I created the following Promotion:




I then created a new user, set his primary usergroup to registered, then checked the Tribe Member usergroup box in the additional usergroup window. I changed his post count to 49. I then went and posted a test message giving him the requisite 50 posts.

I then went to the Scheduled Task Manager and clicked Run Now on the User Promotions section.

I went to search for users under the users section and checked the "Active Tribe Members" usergroup button and clicked search. I came back with 0 hits.

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong but I feel like I should be wearing a dunce cap.

Once again, any assistance is appreciated. Thanks again to those that have gotten me this far already.