Please clarify these doubts...

[Suri.CMS]

I am looking to purchase vBadvanced Dynamics for my new site using vBulletin 3.7 forum.

Please clarify if vBadvanced Dynamics works well with below combination.

vbAdvanced Dynamics (home page) + vBlog + vBulletin + vbSEO + GARS

Note: I am not sure about GARS. But other combination is most likely to be used in my site.

The purpose is that I want to make my site look like a complete portal instead of just a forum.

Currently I got vBulletin 3.7 forum installed in sub-folder:
www.testdomain.xyz/forum

I haven't installed the other components yet !!

Any suggestions will be appreciated what folder structure should be used if I am thinking of using all above components along with vbAdvanced Dynamics.

Apart from this, some questions:-

1) Can I use both vBadvanced CMPS & Dynamics together along with above mentioned components ? What advantage I can get using both ? Or is it that Dynamics is advanced version of CMPS ?

2) Is there a Article Management system (with user rating features...) in vBadvanced Dynamics ?

3) Does this vBadvanced Dynamics use only the database tables of vBulletin forum ? Or does it maintain it's own tables and data also ?

4) Does this vBadvanced Dynamics use only the styles (themes) of vBulletin forum ? Or does it maintain it's own style sheets ? (I mean, if I just get a theme developed for vBulletin forum, will it get applied for the home page of my site that has vBadvanced Dynamics installed ?)

5) Does this vBadvanced Dynamics work with vBulletin 3.7 GOLD version ?

6) Can this vBadvanced Dynamics be un-installed anytime without losing any data ?

7) Can we create custom blocks easily to show up on vBadvanced Dynamics home page ? Lets say, I want to display the RSS feed from my other website, is it simple to show that custom block in this home page ?

8) Can we rearrange easily the order of Custom Blocks that will appear on vBadvanced Dynamics home page ? (Lets say, if I want to move the List of Online Users block to the bottom of my home page instead of left side.)

9) For very large boards (Lets say 1000 members online at a time), are there any known performance problems that are created by using vBadvanced Dynamics ?

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Sorry for too many questions, but I am new all these and looking for your help.

Thanks in advance...

[Brian]

1). Yes, both can be used with your other software. No, vBa Dynamics is not an advanced version of the CMPS. It is a completely different product.
http://www.vbadvanced.com/forum/showthread.php?t=24750

2). Yes, you can post articles and allow your members to rate them with vBa Dynamics.

3). It uses the vBulletin tables for anything it can (member info, templates, phrases, etc) and has it's own tables for it's features (categories, entries, posts, ratings, etc). It uses the same database as vBulletin.

4). It uses your vBulletin styles.

5). Yes.

6). It can be uninstalled without affecting your vBulletin data. Uninstalling it would remove all vBa Dyanmics data from your database though. You could of course back that data up before un-installing though. There's also an option to turn vBa Dynamics off (like turning vBulletin off) that will allow you to temporarily disable it.

7). You can create your own custom blocks. There are not any RSS feed modules that come with it by default, but I believe there are some available in the CMPS Add-On Modules forum here that will also work with vBa Dynamics.

8). Yes. See this link (http://www.vbadvanced.com/forum/demo/vba_dyna_admin_modules.php?do=layout&page=dyna_index) from our demo.

9). No, there should not be any performance issues.

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[Suri.CMS]

Thank You Brian for the detailed clarification.

It can be uninstalled without affecting your vBulletin data. Uninstalling it would remove all vBa Dyanmics data from your database though.
So installation of vBa Dyanmics does not cause any vBulletin database table structure to change (adding new columns...etc). Right ?? (There is no problem if it creates new tables in the database)

There's also an option to turn vBa Dynamics off (like turning vBulletin off) that will allow you to temporarily disable it.
If I disable it and the go to my URL www.testsite.com/forum (where vBulletin forum is installed), it will be working normally as before. Right ??

There's also an option to turn vBa Dynamics off
Is there an option to turn off vBa CMPS also in a similar way ?

[Suri.CMS]

One more doubt.

Using any of above mentioned products, I cannot submit an entry (post) into multiple categories. Right ???

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[Brian]

So installation of vBa Dynamics does not cause any vBulletin database table structure to change (adding new columns...etc). Right ?? (There is no problem if it creates new tables in the database)
It will alter a couple of tables, such as the language table to add fields for it's phrases. That's nothing that could affect vB though and is pretty standard with vB add-ons/hacks that use their own phrases.


If I disable it and the go to my URL www.testsite.com/forum (where vBulletin forum is installed), it will be working normally as before. Right ??
Yes. Disabling vBa Dynamics will not affect your forums in any way.


Is there an option to turn off vBa CMPS also in a similar way ?

I suppose you could set the 'Active' setting for your CMPS pages to 'No'. That would result in your users seeing an 'Invalid Page Specified' error instead of the page and effectively disable it.

[Suri.CMS]

Using any of above mentioned products, I cannot submit an entry (post) into multiple categories. Right ???
Any idea on this ?

[HenrikHansen]

No, entry cannot be submitted to multiple categories.

[Suri.CMS]

I just installed CMPS and could see statements (while installing) like Index added to users table..., Updating Image Paths... etc
Is it updating any database tables of vBulletin ?

In future, if I want to turn off (remove) CMPS, all these won't cause any problem. Right ? At that time, I don't need to update any database tables. Right ?

Please clarify as I am new to these.

[Brian]

It adds some indexes to a few vBulletin tables for better query performance on the CMPS. That will not affect your forums though.
No, that will not affect your database. You can disable the CMPS by disabling the product through the Admin CP and removing/renaming the cmps_index.php file so your users cannot access it. Or you can completely uninstall it and remove everything for the CMPS by using the Uninstall option in the Admin CP and removing the files you uploaded for the CMPS.

[Suri.CMS]

It adds some indexes to a few vBulletin tables for better query performance on the CMPS. That will not affect your forums though.
No, that will not affect your database. You can disable the CMPS by disabling the product through the Admin CP and removing/renaming the cmps_index.php file so your users cannot access it. Or you can completely uninstall it and remove everything for the CMPS by using the Uninstall option in the Admin CP and removing the files you uploaded for the CMPS.
Great to know. I am using this product for the first time even though I heard about it long back.

Just wanted to make sure everything is perfect before I start.

Thanks a lot for your timely support.