Chatrooms by usergroup memberships

[EAleixandre]

Hi, I will probably be creating a large number of chat rooms on my forum, to the point that the current pop-up window will be cluttered or insufficient.

What I would love to see is a fourth type of chat room type (in the dropdown box which currently says: Public, Password Protected, Admins Only).

I would like to see a chat room by usergroup membership. So for example if my user is a member of a vBulletin primary or secondary usergroup, in their arrowchat bar, they would get a list of all public and password protected chat rooms as well as chatrooms associated with usergroups they belong to.

Here's an example.

Let's say I have the following chat rooms:

Room Name, Type
================
Global Chat, Public
Entertainment Chat, Public
Soccer Chat, Usergroup:sport_soccer
Baseball Chat, Usergroup:sport_baseball


So if user Fred belongs to usergroup sport_soccer only and user Tom belongs to usergroup sport_baseball only here's what each of them would see in their arrowchat bar:

Fred:
====
Global Chat
Entertainment Chat
Soccer Chat

Tom:
====
Global Chat
Entertainment Chat
Baseball Chat

Does that make sense? I think this feature would be IMMENSELY valuable. Being a PHP coder myself, I don't think it would be overly difficult to add the extra room type and enumerate usergroup memberships in vBulletin.

Thanks,

ErnestA

[Jason]

This wouldn't be difficult at all, and I would suggest you implement it on your own if you know how. The reason this isn't already in ArrowChat (along with group chat in the buddylist) is that each integration has separate ways of implementing this. Some integrations don't even have groups, so it becomes even more complicated (do we disable these options in the admin panel?).

It is something that I wish we could do easily, but each integration adds complications. That being said, this will likely be a feature one day.

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