Is a "Dev Tracker" possible?

rschmitty

For a given installation of Vanilla Forums, is there a way to identify a group of users as "developers" and have a category that only populates posts devs have started or participated in?

If anyone is familiar with Blizzard games and their forums you will know what I'm talking about:

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/blizztracker/
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/blizztracker/

Kasper

You could probably use the "Promoted Content" module as a foundation for a plugin that would do what you need: https://github.com/vanillaforums/Garden/blob/master/applications/vanilla/modules/class.promotedcontentmodule.php

businessdad

Not "out of the box", as far as I know. You would probably need a plugin for that (complexity varies with requirements).

Kasper

You could probably use the "Promoted Content" module as a foundation for a plugin that would do what you need: https://github.com/vanillaforums/Garden/blob/master/applications/vanilla/modules/class.promotedcontentmodule.php

rschmitty

@kasperisager said:
You could probably use the "Promoted Content" module as a foundation for a plugin that would do what you need: https://github.com/vanillaforums/Garden/blob/master/applications/vanilla/modules/class.promotedcontentmodule.php

That indeed does look like it fits the bill, thank you!

Linc

@kasperisager said:
You could probably use the "Promoted Content" module as a foundation for a plugin that would do what you need: https://github.com/vanillaforums/Garden/blob/master/applications/vanilla/modules/class.promotedcontentmodule.php

Well, it happened. Kasper showed me something I didn't know was in Vanilla.

peregrine

@Lincoln said:
Well, it happened. Kasper showed me something I didn't know was in Vanilla.

as hgtonight says to forum users, "Welcome to Vanilla Forums", Lincoln you will learn many things in these forum discussions . and hope you decide to stay.

Tim

Yup, that's exactly what Promoted Content is for. It has ways to select posts based on Roles already built in. We used it on http://forums.unknownworlds.com for exactly that.

hgtonight

@Tim Off topic, but I love Natural Selection 2!

I never would have guessed that was a Vanilla forum either.