Issue: Wiki forums dissapear in Search in Forum(s) List

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March 20, 2012 4:36 PM

nasko

New Member

Wiki forums dissapear in Search in Forum(s) List

I'm not sure if this is a bug, but I've done everything I could to fix it and I can't:

So we have the usual 6 Wiki forums: Main, Book, Image, Category, Templates & Island

I then proceed to insert this link http://www.bghelp.co.uk/wiki/ in Forum Link (Entering a URL here will cause anyone clicking the forum link to be redirected to that URL) for each of the 6 wiki forums, which results in this:

Very oddly some of the Wiki forums disappear from the Search in Forum(s) list, but when I search in the Top Level forum results do come from these hidden forums = one can search in them by choosing the top one above them, but one cannot select them individually in that list.

I've checked all related settings for these forums: Forum Permissions, Forum Manager, Namespace manager and they are all the same = I can't see a logical reason for this behaviour.

Thank you for your time

Issue Details

Issue Number 2621

Issue Type Bug

Project VaultWiki 3.x Series

Category Searching

Status Fixed

Priority 4 - Warnings / Script Errors

Affected Version 3.0.16

Fixed Version 3.0.17

Milestone (none)

Software DependencyAny

Users able to reproduce bug 0

Users unable to reproduce bug 0

Attachments 0

Assigned Users (none)

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March 20, 2012 11:27 PM

pegasus

VaultWiki Team

You probably have Display Order = 0 for those forums. When that happens, vBulletin hides forums from lists, but the content is still viewable, and seems still searchable.

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March 21, 2012 12:26 PM

nasko

New Member

No, they are all displayed = I can see them all in the forum list.

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March 21, 2012 6:45 PM

pegasus

VaultWiki Team

The hidden forums could also be the ones with Forum Link set. As long as you set the Forum Link of the top forum container to point to the Wiki Index, then they should all disappear. You should be using the Wiki Advanced Search from the navbar search menu to search the wiki anyway, since the results will be more accurate.

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March 21, 2012 10:32 PM

nasko

New Member

Originally Posted by pegasus

The hidden forums could also be the ones with Forum Link set.

All of the forums have the same Forum Link set, yet only 2 are visible in the Search in Forum(s) List. That is weird.

Originally Posted by pegasus

As long as you set the Forum Link of the top forum container to point to the Wiki Index, then they should all disappear.

There is no forum link set for the top forum container, so all of them appear in the forum list, yet only 2 are visible in Search in Forum(s) List.

Originally Posted by pegasus

You should be using the Wiki Advanced Search from the navbar search menu to search the wiki anyway, since the results will be more accurate.

Yes, I can use that search, but I can't search by username there.

And that still doesn't explain the weird behaviour.

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March 22, 2012 12:43 AM

pegasus

VaultWiki Team

Main and Image are collected from the datastore earlier to build the navbar items for the wiki index and Upload links. VaultWiki removes the forum link entry from memory at that time because it knows vBulletin does weird things with forum links. However, VaultWiki didn't do anything with the other forums at that time so they still have a forum link and vBulletin hides them from the search chooser.

I'm not sure if there is a straightforward way to repair this right now. It might require a new plugin.

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March 28, 2012 12:00 AM

pegasus

VaultWiki Team

This should fix it. In vault/plugins.php, find:

Code:

	if (VAULT_401_COMPAT AND !VAULT_402_COMPAT)

Add before:

Code:

	if (THIS_SCRIPT == 'search')
	{
		foreach ($vbulletin->forumcache AS $forumid => $f)
		{
			fetch_foruminfo($forumid);
		}
	}

October 6, 2013 9:14 AM

Kirauni

Junior Member

I noticed a similiar problem and I wonder if there's a fix.
I'm currently using VaultWiki 3.0.20 with vBulletin 4.2.1.

Now I wanted to add a Widget that displays all new Wiki-Articles of a certain Wiki-Forum using the recent post widget of vbCMS (Template "vbcms_widget_recentposts_page")

However when I try to configure the widget, the Wiki-Forum is not displayed in the list and thus not selectable. Similiar to nasko's problem mentioned above.
And yes, I entered a link to the Wiki's Main page in the forum so that's the reason why it's not displayed.
When I delete the link, I can select the board in the widget's configuration menu properly. However, I need a link to the main Wiki page.

Now I'm wondering if there's a fix or a workaround? I tried adding the fix mentioned above (vault/plugins.php) and it works perfectly for the search, but obviously not for the widget. Could you please help me out, Pegasus? That would be great!

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October 6, 2013 10:32 AM
pegasus

VaultWiki Team
For this same edit, try making:

Code:

THIS_SCRIPT == 'search'

Into:

Code:

THIS_SCRIPT != 'showwiki'
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October 7, 2013 10:09 AM

Kirauni

Junior Member

Thank you, Pegasus!

I did that, however the Wiki's forum is still not displayed when I configure the recent post Widget... strange.

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October 7, 2013 11:49 AM

pegasus

VaultWiki Team

Also make sure the forum's Display Order > 0. If it's 0, it doesn't show in the configure view.

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