Moving a vBulletin Forum - Signatures Disappeared

Discussion in 'vBulletin' started by Corey Bryant, Mar 12, 2008.

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    One of the forums I help with asked me to fix a few things when they moved.

    I cannot find my login to vBulletin's board (they had put me in their support group because I help on a few different forum) but I cannot get their email system to email me my password and no contact from their contact form.

    So I thought I would try here. I am going through all the options one by one but there are two questions

    One should be simple (and I probably have not gotten to that one yet). On the 'sub-forum' (like this on one here under Site & Server Administration) - where is that set up in the Admin CP? Right now, the sub-forum shows like a forum, albeit when you click on Site & Server Administration, you will see the sub-forum at the top.

    The next one is a biggy... The signatures disappeared on all the old posts. The members had to go back in and check "Show Signatures" ad Signatures are showing on all new posts. But old posts have no signatures. Any way to get these to appear again?

    Thanks!
     
    Corey Bryant, Mar 12, 2008 IP
  2. Corey Bryant

    Corey Bryant Texan at Heart

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    I got this one. It was Depth of Sub-Forums in the Forum Listings Display Options.
     
    Corey Bryant, Mar 12, 2008 IP
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    LoCo Well-Known Member

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    As to the Signature problem

    i see a way to do this with mysql

    UPDATE `vb368_post` SET `vb368_post`.`showsignature` =1 WHERE `showsignature` =0

    change vb368 with your table prefix

    not quite sure if it will work, but it should do the deal

    This will basicly just set all posts to have showsignature on if it is set to off

    Backup the mysql before you do any changes

    regards
     
    LoCo, Mar 12, 2008 IP
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    Corey Bryant Texan at Heart

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    Thank you for this! I'll pass it along to the others and see if it works and let you know.
     
    Corey Bryant, Mar 12, 2008 IP
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    Corey Bryant Texan at Heart

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    I guess things really changed over at vBulletin. I finally was able to get my password and but I no longer had any "support". I posted a question in their chit chat but it seems they don't even want that unfortunately.

    Makes one even wonder if helping anyone is really worth it any longer.
     
    Corey Bryant, Mar 13, 2008 IP