Post Critiques [library support]

[Wormopolis]

For Post Critiques Plugin and companion plugin support

Post Critique: www.proboards.com/library/plugins/item/122

Companion:  www.proboards.com/library/plugins/item/308


the critiques box does have CSS. you can target it in each theme with:

div.controls div.critique_div {background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #000000; border-radius: 5px 5px 5px 5px; color:#000000;}


if using companion, you can affect the tables in general with:

div.content table.critiquetracking {border: 1px solid #816f49;}
div.content table.critiquetracking td.crit_track_bars {background-color:#bfab82 !important;}

and individual tables can be affected with:

table#crit_track_table_0 div.crit_track_bar {background-color:#FF0000;}
table#crit_track_table_1 div.crit_track_bar {background-color:#00FF00;}

^that one will allow you to color the bars themselves seperatly.  tables are numbered starting from 0 from the top    

NOTICE: IF YOU ARE UPGRADING TO v1.1.1: if you are using this plugin with the option of allowing the OP to approve repliers for voting - IT IS IMPERATIVE that you click the critique button on every first post that is in play. otherwise the first "approve" button the OP hits will OVERWRITE the current totals. in order to facilitate the new data structure, I had to convert old data. however the "approve" buttons dont have access to the data they need to redo the first post key, so they will overwrite what is there. clicking the critique button on the first post, will safely restore the information so the "approve" buttons dont wreck it.

[Wormopolis]

That variable I needed to make it where OP could approve raters on the first post is now in proboards.data so I can hopefully finish that mod off this weekend.

I am also still working on a companion plugin for tracking all post critiques on each member.

[Wormopolis]

v1.0.3 submitted

ran into a problem with user tracking, so Im still working on that part.

[Wormopolis]

v1.0.5 submitted for Post Critique

v1.0.0 submitted for Companion.

[Tohsaka Rin]

I was urged to test this out by my members!

The idea is great, but they were discussing how the colour of the critique box background and text did not match any of the themes. Someone else noticed this as well over on the plugin review but did not post here in the support thread.

Our coder stated that he uses some variable that targets the uh, something in the CSS area of the visual editor to pull the colours of the theme for something like this. I understand what he is talking about but I don't know the specific line of code he uses. Maybe that would work?

[Wormopolis]

hmm Its probably some dialog class or something. the critiques box does have CSS. you can target it in each theme with:

div.controls div.critique_div {background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #000000; border-radius: 5px 5px 5px 5px; color:#000000;}

[Tohsaka Rin]

Updated to fix the colours, thank you again!

[Wormopolis]

I added that to the first post as well in case anyone else is looking for it. your site looks great!

also,  you dont have to leave critique choices at

"Terrible,Poor,Fair,Decent,Excellent,Unbelievable"

you can put in whatever you want there.  they just have to be seperated by a comma

[Tohsaka Rin]

Jul 21, 2013 12:36:44 GMT -8 Wormopolis said:

I added that to the first post as well in case anyone else is looking for it. your site looks great!

<ii> That is so nice to say. I am finally running out of things to update.

[Wormopolis]

read my previous post again, I just edited in something

[Tohsaka Rin]

Jul 21, 2013 12:36:44 GMT -8 Wormopolis said:

I added that to the first post as well in case anyone else is looking for it. your site looks great!

also,  you dont have to leave critique choices at

"Terrible,Poor,Fair,Decent,Excellent,Unbelievable"

you can put in whatever you want there.  they just have to be seperated by a comma

Yep, I already asked the members if they wanted to stick with those by default and they said that the original choices are more than applicable. That is why I didn't bring it up. I was poking through the code and came across that this morning. Hahaha. It is nice that you allow that sort of thing right away in the case other site owners wish to adapt it to their boards.

(I think my members like the harsher critique's to help them improve their writing.)

[Wormopolis]

so here is something else you didnt know. you can actually have more then one critique going at the same time. you can have them on different boards, OR if you have 2 different critiques applied to the same board, it puts up 2 buttons

[Tohsaka Rin]

Jul 21, 2013 13:06:38 GMT -8 Wormopolis said:

so here is something else you didnt know. you can actually have more then one critique going at the same time. you can have them on different boards, OR if you have 2 different critiques applied to the same board, it puts up 2 buttons

And that is specifically for boards, correct?

Sort of like "rate this board" rather than rating a thread/post?

I did read over some of the additional things that the plugin had built into it, such as being able to only rate the opening thread, or allowing/disallowing the ability to rate certain threads/boards/categories.

Currently only the "roleplay" boards are the ones that anyone can critique on, we wanted everyone to be able to rate all of the threads/replies to threads on the board so I did not set anything fancy up.

We are having a poll about the companion plugin at the moment. I already had to buy two super keys two months or so ago because we needed four total, now we have to figure out if we have to get two more super keys for the alias companion and/or the critique companion. That way each member can see where they can improve on something, and give us better relevant feedback for planing events or rewards.

[Wormopolis]

I actually just found a bug in the multiple critiques in the same board idea.. so hold off on that.

yeah them super keys make all the admins into budget analysis experts.

[Tohsaka Rin]

Jul 21, 2013 15:55:00 GMT -8 Wormopolis said:

I actually just found a bug in the multiple critiques in the same board idea.. so hold off on that.

yeah them super keys make all the admins into budget analysis experts.

I probably will not have boards critiqued since it would be a little outside the scope of what we are trying to accomplish. It is nice that you double-checked it though and found bugs.

Super-keys make my head hurt, especially when a plugin requires one for just small things to be included. I do understand that it apparently allows a site to keep track of certain information for a plugin...but in essence it is like "You want the plugin, but we will put some of the other functions into a companion one if you dont want to buy keys."

This can be good, but at the same time it might lessen what the basic plugin may have in the future and force a person to shell out money for the "full" version of a plugin; rather than a "lite" version.

That is when you start nickel and diming micro-transactions. (Believe me I hate that, I work as a gm for certain game companies and when they start doing this same thing I tend to no longer be able to stand by their products and find another place to work.)

At times it can be done correctly, I just hope in the future it doesn't turn out to be like that.

I already would have to buy at total of four super-keys because you are only allowed, by default, two. Things like the monetary system require one, but when suddenly small plugins begin needing them you start to wonder.

Either way, I suppose that I should drop off that subject before it makes me feel awful and remind me of ..uh...work.

Hahaha...haha...*nervous laugh.*