Thread Description [Library Support]

[Tiffy-Bean]

Seems to be appearing in my mini profiles too for some reason. Any way I can prevent that?

URL where it's happening: thecityofsin.freeforums.net/thread/1834/ti-important-day-clocks-stopped

[Tiffy-Bean]

solved it. It was connecting to the padding class.

[rainsofchange]

Dec 28, 2016 5:40:21 GMT -8 ₪» ⅀ ƪ Ƒ «₪ said:

Maybe it's time to request a new plugin be made but I bet no one would undertake it until v6. Still might be worth a shot! That's what red names are always saying to do when asked for a solution about inactive plugin authors, at least.

I've had this page bookmarked for so long hoping for some help or some answers. I recently saw a new plug-in for thread descriptions made by someone else, but I have the same problem with that one, and there isn't a support page for it. 

[Former Member]

Jun 17, 2017 10:41:46 GMT -8 rainsofchange said:

Dec 28, 2016 5:40:21 GMT -8 ₪» ⅀ ƪ Ƒ «₪ said:

Maybe it's time to request a new plugin be made but I bet no one would undertake it until v6. Still might be worth a shot! That's what red names are always saying to do when asked for a solution about inactive plugin authors, at least.

I've had this page bookmarked for so long hoping for some help or some answers. I recently saw a new plug-in for thread descriptions made by someone else, but I have the same problem with that one, and there isn't a support page for it. 

If you mean the plugin I made for Kami
It can be used on custom themes, because you can explicitly pass it a CSS selector. You would just need to modify the custom themes
thread list template and add the selector where you want it .

If you need any help, just send me a DM or reply here..

[Former Member]

Can anyone add thread descriptions w/ this installed? Or just admin? I'd rather the latter.

[SailorEffinMoon]

I'm pretty sure you can stop others from entering a description by changing the "write permissions".

[SailorEffinMoon]

This has been happening for awhile and I find it really unattractive.  The description appears to be leaving a gap at the top of my threads.  

Like so



I realize the description is written in there but anyway I can get rid of that on the posts? Shorty

link

[Sammiie]

Shorty

Hello!

I recently set some new settings for this plugin and realized that certain features do not work the way they're supposed to.

Namely, specifying boards in which a thread description is mandatory. Apparently when I do that, the thread description bar disappears when editing threads outside of these boards and when trying to create threads in certain accounts.

Is there a way to fix this?

[Tiffamu]

dragonridersofberk.boards.net/

Is there a way to set the character limit on the description to not be almost 4000? I'm using it on my forum, but I have a custom style for the threads and if the description is too long it goes outside of the boxes for the thread titles. I'd like to be able to set the max characters to avoid this, if possible.

[JD]

Hey there! I'm having an issue with this plugin where it's not showing the thread description on the thread page? It shows under the thread name in the board's thread listings but doesn't appear on the thread post list page itself. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

I'm testing it out here -

aeipathy.forums.net/thread/372/test-thread

I've tried deactivating all my other plugins and setting a default theme in place so see if I have a conflicting code but it still doesn't show. Any suggestions? <3

---

Edit: Addressed in another thread

---

Jul 3, 2019 22:23:02 GMT -8 Chris said:

This is a typo bug in the plugin most likely introduced in an update if we assume that insertion worked while viewing post at one time.

SPOILER: Click to show

I do not have that plugin installed to check but if you say it is locked then it might be difficult to fix that bug without the plugin author's participation. Basically the "this." prepended to the global proboards variable in the code below would fail during reference lookup and return an undefined because proboards is in fact a property of the window object not the shorty_thread_descriptions object.

threadPlacement: function() {
        if(proboards.data('route').name =='thread'  && (!this.boardss.length || (this.boardss.length && this.proboards.data('page').board.id == this.getBoards()))) {
            var threadId = proboards.data('route').params.thread_id;
            if(proboards.plugin.key('thread_description_key').get(threadId)) {
                $('div.container.posts div.content.cap-bottom').prepend('<div class="thread_description_page" style="padding: 5px !important; word-wrap:break-word !important;">'+proboards.plugin.key('thread_description_key').get(threadId)+'</div>');
            }
        }        
    }

There might be a slim chance there is a way to add a reference to proboard prior to it being called since it looks like the plugin waits for document ready before initializing. Something like this in the GLOBAL FOOTER might be enough to intercept the code in that critical moment after it has been created by the plugin but before it is initialized on document ready and add a reference to proboards for that errant "this."

<!-- Patch Shorty Thread Description v1.2.4 -->
<script> 
window.shorty_thread_descriptions && (shorty_thread_descriptions.proboards = window.proboards);
</script>

[timelapse]

Dec 20, 2016 14:31:47 GMT -8 rainsofchange said:

Nov 29, 2016 15:27:48 GMT -8 ₪» ⅀ ƪ Ƒ «₪ said:

There is currently no known way to manipulate how this shows in the thread list, correct? My theme is too custom for it to show in the thread list at all currently so I figured I'd ask but I know Shorty is inactive, just curious if someone else has figured anything out with javascript or CSS or something. Maybe using inspect element or something, I'm not sure.

I think I'm currently having the same problem. I was disappointed to find that I couldn't see the descriptions with my current theme, but could when I switched to a simpler theme that doesn't fiddle so much. Since I can see it in other themes, I was hoping to find a fix for the current theme I like. I wasn't able to get a response on the theme's help page, so I'm hoping it'll be here. I don't know if I simply need to make the thread boxes larger or if there is coding in the theme that overrides the description plug-in. I'd really like to get it to work with the theme, but I'm horrible at scripting and coding. 

I'm coming to this conversation very late, but this post is for anyone using a custom theme and struggling with the thread descriptions no longer showing up.
Your Thread variable ($[thread]) must appear in the code like so: 
        <span class="link target">$[thread]</span>

It has to be a span tag and it has to have the 'link' and 'target' class.
Once the descriptions have appeared, you can use the div.thread_description_list class to customize how they appear with CSS.