Changing the group color from the members name

[tenente]

Hello. I'm new to all this so please bear with me. I'm an admin on this new Shego board, and I'd like to know How to change a certain individuals group color.
I'd like to change her group " Genie" color

Thank you for any assistance in this matter. Cheers. Chris " tenente".

[Night]

tenente

To change Member Group colors, go to Admin>Members>Member Groups.  Here you will have a list of all the groups for members on the forum.  There should be a Colors column that you can use to modify the colors of all the different groups.  The color needs to either be selected from the Color Picker, or a Hex Color Code needs to be input (like #000000 for Black).

Hopefully this helps!

[tenente]

I tried that. It changed the members name color, not the group. 

[Lynx]

tenente ,

Give this a try:

- Go to Admin > Themes > Layout Templates > Mini-Profile
- At the top, you should see something like this:


<div class="$[miniprofile_class]">
$[user]<br />
{if $[user.is_guest]}Guest<br />{/if}
{if $[user.is_deleted]}<em>Deleted Member</em><br />{/if}
{if $[user.group]}
$[user.group.name]<br />$[user.group.stars]<br />
   {/if}
{if $[user.rank]}
$[user.rank.name]<br />
{if $[user.rank.stars]}
$[user.rank.stars]<br />
{/if}
{/if}



Add in the red parts:

<div class="$[miniprofile_class]">
	$[user]<br />
	{if $[user.is_guest]}Guest<br />{/if}
	{if $[user.is_deleted]}<em>Deleted Member</em><br />{/if}
	{if $[user.group]}
                {if $[user.group.name] == "Genie"}
                       <font color="#ff0000">$[user.group.name]</font><br />$[user.group.stars]<br />
                {else}
		$[user.group.name]<br />$[user.group.stars]<br />
                {/if}
    {/if}
	{if $[user.rank]}
		$[user.rank.name]<br />
		{if $[user.rank.stars]}
			$[user.rank.stars]<br />
		{/if}
	{/if}

Change the #ff0000 to what color you want. Remember to save.

EDIT: If you also want it to have the color on their profile page, let me know and I'll do up the code for you - it's basically the same as the above code for the mini-profile, but I think some of the Profile page stuff is in tables, so it may be a slightly different setup.

[tenente]

Wow, I'll be honest. This is a bit intimidating for me. If I screw it up, Can I revert it?

[Lynx]

tenente,

If you haven't made any other changes, you can use the Reset to Default button if you make a mistake. If you take your time, you should be fine.

[tenente]

Cool. Thanks

I'll let you know what happens.

[tenente]

Ok this is what I did. Still no change. What didn't I do correctly?

[Lynx]

tenente,

Is "Genie" the exact spelling of the Member Group name? You need to make sure you have a Member Group (Admin > Members > Member Groups) with that name before it'll work.

Also, I just noticed I forgot to close the <font> tag. In this line:


<font color="#ff0000">$[user.group.name]<br />$[user.group.stars]<br />


add in the closing </font> tag where shown here:

<font color="#ff0000">$[user.group.name]</font><br />$[user.group.stars]<br />

[tenente]

<font color="#ee828a">$[user.group.name]</font><br />$[user.group.stars]<br />

Ok I did this. Still no change.
Yeah. It's Genie.

[Lynx]

tenente,

Did that user put themselves so that Member Group name is displayed? They can do this by going to Profile > Edit Profile > Settings (tab) > Display Group (option) - you can't make this change for them, it's something they have to do themselves.

[tenente]

Apr 13, 2018 16:41:27 GMT -8 Lynx said:

tenente ,

Did that user put themselves so that Member Group name is displayed? They can do this by going to Profile > Edit Profile > Settings (tab) > Display Group (option) - you can't make this change for them, it's something they have to do themselves.

Yes they did. Hmm, did I do the code correctly? 

[Lynx]

Apr 13, 2018 19:34:15 GMT -8 tenente said:

Apr 13, 2018 16:41:27 GMT -8 Lynx said:

tenente ,

Did that user put themselves so that Member Group name is displayed? They can do this by going to Profile > Edit Profile > Settings (tab) > Display Group (option) - you can't make this change for them, it's something they have to do themselves.

Yes they did. Hmm, did I do the code correctly? 

The code worked properly on my test forum, and it looks correct in your image (assuming the </font> tag was added in that I had mistakenly left out), so not sure what might be wrong. I'll take another look tomorrow when I've got a fresh mind.

[tenente]

I found out how to do it. A friend of mine showed me how. You put the code, and color in the Group Rank Box. Like this.

[Lynx]

tenente,

Yeah - I had completely forgotten about that method. Glad you got it figured out though.

One thing I was going to ask you, though, is: Were you on the same theme on your profile as the theme you were editing? Remember, templates are theme-specific.