Display Only Threads From Specific Users/Groups to News Module

[NickName]

This might be a noob question, but How do I set vbadvanced news module to display only threads from specific users/usergroups, rather than specific forums?

I have a group of writers, and a group of moderators that I want ONLY their posts going to the front page news module, but I can only see an option to choose specific threads. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks for your time and help!

[NickName]

Anyone? Please... lol

[Brian]

There's not really going to be an easy way to filter the news by usergroup. You could filter it by userid by looking in your modules/news.php file for this code:

PHP Code:

                WHERE visible = 1
                    AND open != 10
                    AND (thread.forumid IN(" . implode(',', $mods['inforums']) . ")
                    " . iif(!empty($newstids), ' OR threadid IN(' . implode(',', $newstids) . ')') . "
                    ) 


And replacing it with this:

PHP Code:

                WHERE visible = 1
                    AND open != 10
                    AND thread.postuserid IN (X, Y, Z) 


Replace X, Y, Z there at the end with the userids you want to pull news posts from. Also, make sure you still have a forum selected in the 'News Forum(s)' setting. It shouldn't matter what forum since you're replacing the code that pulls threads from specific forums with the code to base it on the userid, but the script will still need to think there's some forums selected so that query will be executed.

[wotws]

how can we do it for the posts not the threads?