[Plugin] Personal Notes Popup 0.1.1

[Chris]

Currently, personal notes don't seem very useful since it requires at least 3 clicks (profile, edit profile, personal) to be able to access them.  I decided to fix this.

This code will add an icon to the ProBoards Network (PBN) bar (as shown below.)  When you click this icon, it will open a popup with the Personal Notes form.  This way you can get easy access to your notes (and edit them!) without leaving the page.  The ads are a requirement (of ProBoards) to be shown, so please do not ask to have them removed.



I'm looking for input on what settings you guys would find useful for this plugin as well.  Though not implemented, my current ideas for settings are as follows:
- Popup height, width
- Image icon (forgot this by default. My bad. )
- Display icon in a left toolbar (will be implemented via Yootil once I write that library.)

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Please note that this plugin requires Yootil to be installed.

[Stinky666]

Width and height would be great to adjust. Doubt there's anyway to make it so it pops up from the icon at the bottom is there? Currently it's a new tab. and opens for me (yes opera ) in the top left.

Great idea though. Very handy to have.

[Chris]

Nov 27, 2012 20:10:09 GMT -8 Stinky666 said:

Width and height would be great to adjust. Doubt there's anyway to make it so it pops up from the icon at the bottom is there? Currently it's a new tab. and opens for me (yes opera ) in the top left.

Great idea though. Very handy to have.

Nope.  Can't have it popup from the bottom because there's no way to get the form there.  (Would need AJAX or an iframe, and that's not allowed.)

As for opening in a new tab... that's your browser preferences not wanting it to open in a popup.  I can't control that.

[Maiden]

Very useful!



We currently have the floating slide menu by Texas installed. And it currently displays in the new window that opens. I was wondering if there was a way to stop it doing that?

Thanks

[Chris]

Dec 12, 2012 7:14:51 GMT -8 Maiden said:

Very useful!



We currently have the floating slide menu by Texas installed. And it currently displays in the new window that opens. I was wondering if there was a way to stop it doing that?

Thanks

Grab version 0.1.1 that I just uploaded. I've added the ability to hide additional fields using a CSS selector as a setting.

In your case, you'll want to enter the following:
#left_box_container, #right_box_container

Let me know if that works properly for you. (If not, please post or PM me a betazone link so I can debug.)

[Maiden]

Hi Chris

Seems to work perfectly! My personal notes (as random as they are) are there and it looks great.

One little question, how do I work out what things to put in that field? (I've now also got the proboards sidebar running on the right of the forum and would like that not to appear in the pop up as well.

[Chris]

It just requires a CSS selector. In this case, it'll be easiest to post a support thread (or in this thread for now) and someone can help you find the selector.

[Maiden]

And a CSS selector is like one of those things prefaced by a hash? So the one for the sidebars would be related to them, maybe sidebar_div? (My best guess from using right click inspect element.....)

Thanks

[Chris]

Dec 29, 2012 17:54:36 GMT -8 Maiden said:

And a CSS selector is like one of those things prefaced by a hash? So the one for the sidebars would be related to them, maybe sidebar_div? (My best guess from using right click inspect element.....)

Thanks

# means "select by id" So, if the ID for the sidebar is sidebar_div, then you'd add "#sidebar_div" to that list, separated by a comma.

[Texas]

I think this brokted...or at least it did for me. All that happens when I click the notes button is it pops up a thing with the whole forum...it is however on the page with the notes.

[Maiden]

Mine's not the whole forum, but it looks like the whole forum in colour scheme, with the ads and such.

Chris, would it be possible for it to popup like the participated box? (the way I've got my forum in a table now means I can't exclude the right bits to make it look nice in the new window there's still a big green space even if the content is gone.) The Money plugin pops up a box like that for editing money on the page.

solariatest1.freemessageboards.com/

[Chris]

Jan 8, 2013 17:49:17 GMT -8 Texas said:

I think this brokted...or at least it did for me. All that happens when I click the notes button is it pops up a thing with the whole forum...it is however on the page with the notes.

What template modifications have you made to your forum? This would most likely be the cause of anything like that.

Edit: A board URL will also help.

[Chris]

Jan 9, 2013 5:11:21 GMT -8 Maiden said:

Mine's not the whole forum, but it looks like the whole forum in colour scheme, with the ads and such.

Chris, would it be possible for it to popup like the participated box? (the way I've got my forum in a table now means I can't exclude the right bits to make it look nice in the new window there's still a big green space even if the content is gone.) The Money plugin pops up a box like that for editing money on the page.

solariatest1.freemessageboards.com/

So, I registered a test account. In your case, it's definitely because of the template mods that it shows with that border. I feel like I should add a "insert before this object" similar to the hider. That way you can select where to insert the new form object. Would that be helpful to you?

As for the participated box, unfortunately not. See, there's no way to submit the form without loading the page with the normal notes form (what the popup does). This is because we need something called a CSRF token. this token is only assigned by loading the real page. In Peter's case, anything stored in a plugin key can be submitted without this token, thus he can make a form in a dialog box like the participated threads show up in.

[Maiden]

Yes that sounds like it would be helpful.

I don't mind the green border thing (thought the smaller it's possible to make the popup the better obviously, it's just the huge green space on the left that's a pain, so if where to insert it would solve that then yes please!

[leif]

I'd like to make a suggestion. Just the form/box, no banner, etc in the popup would be amazing