vBulletin - Hide certain sub-forums from the app

[winter]

** This feature is an addition to the vBulletin security that Tapatalk already inherited **
** This feature is only required if you want to hide specific forums from iPhone while it can still be accessed from Web browser **
** vBulletin only **

Tapatalk plugin for vBulletin supports sub-forums filtering where you can hide specific forums from displaying in the Tapatalk app. This is ideal if you want to hide certain high traffic forum such as RSS feed or certain customized sub-forums that don't work well with Tapatalk.

Here is the instruction:

1) Find out the forum id that to be hidden. Login to your forum admincp screen, go to "Forum & Moderators" -> "Forum Manager". Click on "Edit" on specific forum, the forum id will appear on the top of the screen:

http://www.tapatalk.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=53&stc=1&d=1245814654

2) Edit the /mobiquo/conf/config.txt file inside your forum system. You can download it from FTP to edit it using your favorite text editor - or you can do it on SSH/Telnet if you know how to do it.

http://www.tapatalk.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=54&stc=1&d=1245814654

Find the "hide_forum_id" field in the config.txt file, enter the forum id that you found on step 1 above to here. Note that you can hide more than one forum here, just put a "," seperator e.g. "2,5,7" it will hide all three forums specificly. Saved your change and FTP the file back to the server. IMPORTANT!!! you need to specify the exact sub-forum at leaf-level (i.e. not category) for this to work. Otherwise the result returned from Latest tab will include topics in these sub-forums.

3) Verify the result by viewing the forum list on Tapatalk app. Try the tap on the "Refresh" button to make sure it pull the forum list again from the server:

http://www.tapatalk.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=55&stc=1&d=1245814654

Lastly if you have any questions please reply to this post and we will try to help.

[Elglobo]

Hi,

Is there a way that "hide_forum_id" works on phpBB forum ?

Edit: Finally, it's a little issue in the phpBB plugin:
http://tapatalk.com/forum/showthread.php?p=6327#post6327

[zeus_r6]

This change worked for about an hour then started posting the excluded forum content to tapatalk on droid again....

[Raptor]

This works HOWEVER it still shows the posts within these hidden forums when you click on Latest.

They need to be excluded from the latest list also.

using vb 3.8.5

[dmacleo]

really need a ,way to do this in smf too, rss feed forums make it impossible to use unread feature.

[UKJay1971]

Ok, this function simply does not work properly and has not done so for a while.

The issue:

This DOES hide forums in the forum list HOWEVER, posts and threads from hidden forums appear in the LATEST Unread and All sections.

My forum is YD Scuba Community
I have installed the latest plugin software on my vBulletin 4.01 board
I am using the latest iphone application.

The forum ID I want to exclude is 122

I had this hard coded into the last plugin version but since the code update, I cannot find where to code this. I NEED this to work as one of the forums is fed by an RSS feed that I do not want to show on Tapatalk.

Can someone please explain how I can sort this out as soon as possible otherwise I may have to remove Tapatalk functionality from my forums.

Jay

[winter]

I have filed a bug for this issue in vbulletin 4.0.

For SMF and IPBoard this feature is currently not supported unfortunately.

[UKJay1971]

Has there been any update on this issue?

Thanks

Jay

[winter]

Has there been any update on this issue?

Thanks

Jay

This has added to our bug fixes list and will be fixed ASAP.

[melbo]

Thanks. I was referred to this thread for excluding a forum from latest or all lists but it seems it doesn't work... All posts from that excluded forum still show when you hit latest. It looks like this is an old thread. Will we see a fix for it?

[winter]

Thanks. I was referred to this thread for excluding a forum from latest or all lists but it seems it doesn't work... All posts from that excluded forum still show when you hit latest. It looks like this is an old thread. Will we see a fix for it?

It should work in vb3x even though this thread is old. The only known issue so far is you need to manually put all the child forums (leaf forums) id in the config.txt - If you simply specify the parent ID it won't work in Latest tab topic filtering.

[melbo]

I'm only trying to exclude one child forum 72. I have this forum in config.txt like your screenshots in the first post but it does nothing when I browse with tapatalk "Latest" Unread or All.

Anything else to try?

[melbo]

Well? It's been 6 minutes... no reply. :)

joking at all the impatient posters out there.

[winter]

Well? It's been 6 minutes... no reply. :)

joking at all the impatient posters out there.

If you are running vb4 it should be fixed in latest Tapatalk plugin version 1.7. :cool:

[melbo]

vB 3.8.5 for now. 1.7 take care of that too?

[winter]

vB 3.8.5 for now. 1.7 take care of that too?

I believe so - I will wait for Yao to confirm but it's always good idea to keep up-to-date.

[Yao]

yes. it already fixed in lastest build for 3.7/3.8/4.0 version.

[gr8whtd0pe]

Any way to stop people from just creating new topics on certain forums? We run plug-ins that forces you to fill out for sale posts a certain way and also have so many posts. Tapatalk ignores these.

http://www.wvmotorsports.com

[CEO254]

is there a way to only exclude them from Latest Topics?

I still want them to show up when I click on Forum

[CEO254]

is there a way to only exclude them from Latest Topics?

I still want them to show up when I click on Forum

?????????????

[CEO254]

can anyone help?????

[ConqSoft]

is there a way to only exclude them from Latest Topics?

I still want them to show up when I click on Forum

Exactly. I would like this feature too. I have several forums that receive RSS News Feeds from other locations, and I don't want all those posts clogging up the Latest Posts, but I would like those forums to still show up in the Forum List for users to manually read if they choose.

[winter]

We will see what we can do.

[asabet]

yes. it already fixed in lastest build for 3.7/3.8/4.0 version.

I'm using vBulletin 4.1.10 at www.seriouscompacts.com and this feature is not working for me. I'm trying to exclude "Ebay Listings" which is forum id:79

[asabet]

Bump

Sent from my HTC Mecha using Tapatalk

[UKJay1971]

[now working]