Compulsory Topic
3.x / 5.x

Quite frequently, it is necessary in a community to inform members about important news or changes. In WoltLab Suite, this is usually done by means of threads or posts, articles or possibly blog entries. It is common to all of you, however, that your members do not have to read the information, nor in any way have to confirm the reading or even approve to it. With Compulsory Topic you can easily change that.
Compulsory Reading
This plugin for WoltLab Suite gives you the opportunity to create and publish information for the members, which they have to read. As long as your members have not read and have not accepted such a topic, they can not use the community any longer. They are constantly redirected to the page with the compulsory topic on any page call.
In contrast to similar plugins (for example for WBB 3), the forum is not used for the compulsory topics, but an additional page is created in the WoltLab Suite, on which each member's individual topics are presented. Applications like forum or blog do not have to be installed.
Features
Compulsory Topic provides the following essential features:
- an arbitrary number of compulsory topics can be created which are displayed to the members one by one in the corresponding chronological order,
- compulsory topics can be automatically applied to newly registered members,
- a variety of WoltLab Suite-typical conditions allows the compilation of compulsory topics for selected members,
- members may aprove to topics or refuse them; both is statistically recorded,
- depending on approval or refusal, user actions, like disabling, banning or user group assignments, can be executed,
- compulsory topics can be activated and deactivated automatically in a timed manner,
- pages can be defined as exceptions, which are displayed despite the topic; e.g. the imprint or the privacy policy.
Notice:
It is not possible to add users to or remove users from the admin / owner user group.
Expandability
With optional and free packages for the WoltLab applications additional conditions for the compulsory topics can be added; e.g. the number of posts or pictures.
Configurability
In addition to the user group permissions, the above-mentioned exception pages can be set as basic configuration in the ACP as well as the page to which users are to be forwarded after reading. The plugin can be deactivated via a module if necessary.
The compulsory topics themselves are created and edited in the ACP under User. Topics can, if required, be easily copied.
Collaboration
If comparable plugins are installed, which also automatically redirect to pages, it can happen that pages are no longer callable because the plugins are arguing to display the correct page. Just configure page exceptions to enable the display of pages of such plugins.
Versions
- Versions 3.0.x are for WoltLab Suite 3.0
- Versions 5.3.x are for WoltLab Suite 3.1 to 5.3
Notes on Data Protection
- This extension stores the user name and user ID of the creator in the database when creating a compulsory topic in the ACP (table wcf1_compulsory). When confirming / rejecting a topic in the frontend, the user names and user IDs of the relevant users are stored in the database (table wcf1_compulsory_dismissed). Deleting a compulsory topic will delete that data.
- If a user who has confirmed / rejected a mandatory topic is deleted, the user name remains in the database (table wcf1_compulsory_dismissed).
- Uninstalling the extension will erase all stored data.
Published Versions
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Compulsory Topic 5.3.0 pl 1 (Nov 3rd 2020)
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Compulsory Topic 5.3.0 (Oct 15th 2020)
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Point of Interest Extension 5.3.0 (Oct 15th 2020) - Download
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Webdisk Extension 5.3.0 (Oct 15th 2020) - Download
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Marketplace Extension 5.3.0 (Oct 15th 2020) - Download
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Lexicon Extension 5.3.0 (Oct 15th 2020) - Download
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Calendar Extension 5.3.0 (Oct 15th 2020) - Download
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Gallery Extension 5.3.0 (Oct 15th 2020) - Download
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Forum Extension 5.3.0 (Oct 15th 2020) - Download
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Filebase Extension 5.3.0 (Oct 15th 2020) - Download
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Blog Extension 5.3.0 (Oct 15th 2020) - Download
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Display Window Extension 5.3.0 (Oct 15th 2020) - Download
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Compulsory Topic 5.2.3 (Aug 11th 2020)
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Compulsory Topic 5.2.2 (May 28th 2020)
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Calendar Extension 5.2.1 (Mar 24th 2020) - Download
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Gallery Extension 5.2.1 (Mar 24th 2020) - Download
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Forum Extension 5.2.1 (Mar 24th 2020) - Download
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Filebase Extension 5.2.1 (Mar 24th 2020) - Download
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Blog Extension 5.2.1 (Mar 24th 2020) - Download
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Compulsory Topic 5.2.1 (Mar 24th 2020)
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Compulsory Topic 3.0.7 (Mar 24th 2020)
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Compulsory Topic 5.2.0 (Dec 31st 2019)
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Calendar Extension 5.2.0 (Dec 31st 2019) - Download
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Gallery Extension 5.2.0 (Dec 31st 2019) - Download
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Forum Extension 5.2.0 (Dec 31st 2019) - Download
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Filebase Extension 5.2.0 (Dec 31st 2019) - Download
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Blog Extension 5.2.0 (Dec 31st 2019) - Download
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Compulsory Topic 3.1.2 (Jul 26th 2019)
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Compulsory Topic 3.0.6 (Jul 26th 2019)
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Calendar Extension 3.1.1 (Jul 26th 2019) - Download
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Calendar Extension 3.0.1 (Jul 26th 2019) - Download
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Gallery Extension 3.1.1 (Jul 26th 2019) - Download
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Gallery Extension 3.0.1 (Jul 26th 2019) - Download
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Forum Extension 3.1.1 (Jul 26th 2019) - Download
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Forum Extension 3.0.1 (Jul 26th 2019) - Download
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Filebase Extension 3.1.1 (Jul 26th 2019) - Download
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Filebase Extension 3.0.1 (Jul 26th 2019) - Download
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Blog Extension 3.1.1 (Jul 26th 2019) - Download
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Blog Extension 3.0.1 (Jul 26th 2019) - Download
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Compulsory Topic 3.1.1 pl 1 (Oct 8th 2018)
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Compulsory Topic 3.0.5 pl 1 (Oct 8th 2018)
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Compulsory Topic 3.1.1 (Sep 7th 2018)
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Compulsory Topic 3.0.5 (Sep 7th 2018)
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Compulsory Topic 3.1.0 (Jan 17th 2018)
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Blog Extension 3.1.0 (Jan 17th 2018) - Download
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Filebase Extension 3.1.0 (Jan 17th 2018) - Download
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Forum Extension 3.1.0 (Jan 17th 2018) - Download
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Gallery Extension 3.1.0 (Jan 17th 2018) - Download
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Calendar Extension 3.1.0 (Jan 17th 2018) - Download
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Compulsory Topic 3.0.4 (Nov 10th 2017)
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Compulsory Topic 3.0.2 (Oct 10th 2017)
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Compulsory Topic 3.0.1 pl 3 (May 16th 2017)
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Compulsory Topic 3.0.1 pl 2 (Apr 10th 2017)
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Compulsory Topic 3.0.1 pl 1 (Feb 12th 2017)
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Compulsory Topic 3.0.1 (Feb 11th 2017)
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Compulsory Topic 3.0.0 pl 3 (Feb 9th 2017)
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Compulsory Topic 3.0.0 pl 2 (Jan 26th 2017)
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Compulsory Topic 3.0.0 pl 1 (Jan 22nd 2017)
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Calendar Extension 3.0.0 (Jan 15th 2017) - Download
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Gallery Extension 3.0.0 (Jan 15th 2017) - Download
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Forum Extension 3.0.0 (Jan 15th 2017) - Download
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Filebase Extension 3.0.0 (Jan 15th 2017) - Download
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Blog Extension 3.0.0 (Jan 15th 2017) - Download
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Compulsory Topic 3.0.0 (Jan 15th 2017)