Quick tab setup for vBulletin 4.2

**TundraSoul** · June 11, 2012

I believe I know how to make a tab in vBulletin 4.2 for VaultWiki, but would like someone to clarify.

Here are the choices for building a Tab:

Active: Yes
Product: VaultWiki
Title: Wiki
Target URL: showwiki.php{session.sessionurl_q}
Display Order: 50
Show Permission Name: (blank)
Append 'tabid' to URL (No)
Tab Script(s): (Blank)

So what am I missing?

My current Wiki tab works by taking the user to the assigned URL, but it doesn't highlight my Wiki tab when it's clicked on, rather the Forum tab remains selected.

vBulletin 4.2 and VaultWiki 3.0.19.

Thanks!

**pegasus** · June 11, 2012

VaultWiki automatically creates tabs in vBulletin 4.2. You don't need to do it yourself. If you upgraded to vBulletin 4.2 after installing VaultWiki 3.0.19, run the VaultWiki upgrade script to get your tabs.

**TundraSoul** · June 12, 2012

Awesome, I did, and that installed the tab.

**Mnemonic76** · June 12, 2012

Is there a preferred way of adding navbar buttons linking to specific wiki pages? I added a button with URL containing something like "showwiki.php?title=XXX" and "Append tabid" set to yes. Now the button becomes selected and properly displays the wiki page, but the navbar submenu is empty. Is there a better way or would I need to define the submenu manually for each such button? Thanks.

**pegasus** · June 13, 2012

Until vBulletin improves the system to allow multiple parent tabs for sub-menus, you need to define the sub-menu manually for each button.

**Mnemonic76** · June 14, 2012

Okay, thanks for the reply.

**mickknutson** · June 25, 2012

I need some help to get all of the admin links such as adding a photo page, Special pages etc.

The new 4.2 has removed all the sub links from my tab.

**pegasus** · June 25, 2012

Did you have a custom tab originally? If not, you should just run the VaultWiki upgrade script after you upgraded vBulletin to 4.2.

**waylandprod** · June 25, 2012

I had a custom tab, and it didn't upgrade. I tried resetting it and trying the upgrade again, with no luck. I sent a PM about it, but I thought here might be better.

**mickknutson** · June 27, 2012

I dont have any of the update files on my server. Do I need to re-upload the files then run the update for this to get fixed?

**mickknutson** · June 28, 2012

I just reran the upgrade script and it does not work:
http://www.blincmagazine.com/forum/wiki/BASE_Wiki:Index

What can I do now?
have urgent image I need to post as an immediate concern. Then I need to fix this please.

**pegasus** · June 28, 2012

If you're referring to the white page, try adding this line after the copyright block in showwiki.php and post any results:

Code:

@ini_set('display_errors', 1);

**Delfi_r1** · January 2, 2013

I'll post it here: I run vW on vB4.20

I want to have a test-wiki accessible only for an speific group. And a Template space for them.

The other members, not registered visitors, and crawlers shoud go to an index page until we develop a more robust content with books, other wikis, etc. Perhaps they should see the list of articles of the main wiki, but not the testwiki.

¿There is a solution for this?

**pegasus** · January 2, 2013

You can have a Test-wiki namespace or just a sub-forum, depending on your needs. Just adjust usergroup permissions so only your group can see the sub-forum. As for templates, you would create a sub-forum in your template namespace with similar permissions.

You can define an index page in Settings > Options > VaultWiki: Server Settings > Replace Wiki Tab with URL.