Alters [library support]

[wonderfulrp]

It's working! You are beautiful!

[lyfe]

Is there any possible way you could download it straight to your forum?

[Wormopolis]

download the plugin? if you go into your forum admin panel and go to plugin area. you can go to plugin library from there and you will have the option to send direct to forum on each plugin.

[Nickel]

Question about the plugin for you, I installed it onto my forum and it appears to work fine if you are only looking at the profile page. If you go into a board to make a post and choose an alter is it supposed to post the alter as your profile name etc? Whenever I make a post as an alter nothing appears to happen, nothing looks any different to me. Did I do something wrong?
Site: cavallo-v2.boards.net/board/4/senyn
Opens to the board where I have a test post going, first post was by normal second and third were separate alters

[Wormopolis]

Looking at the regular post, am I correct that you stripped all of the member info out of the area where the mini profile normally shows?

[Nickel]

No there was stuff showing up there before I enabled the plugin for the Alters

[Wormopolis]

I think my phone was tricking me. I have to sit down at the pc and look closer. I could see there were keys logged for the posts so I know that is working. However it is storing a alter name that isn't in your alter list so those first two posts don't have anything to reference. The third posts though should pull, but I need to trace the code to find out what it doesn't like. Typically its because it can't find something it needs.

[Wormopolis]

ok.. so looking at it with the laptop...

you have remodeled the mini-profile. my phone was showing the cover image but I didnt notice the hover effect. however, since you changed around how everything is placed inside, its mad that it cant find a post count in each mini-profile. yes you have it there, but the code expects the mini-profile to look normal. I cant forsee the millions of ways that people will change things, so I have to write it like nothing has been changed at all.

BUT.. there is a way around it. it wants to see

Posts: num

so what you can do, is in your mini-profile template, add this

<span style="display:none">Posts: $[user.posts]</span>

that way it doesnt mess up your hover device, AND the code gets what it wants.


on to your second problem. as I said before, it set keys for those first two posts. at some point you had an alter named "Nickel". now you dont. so those posts are attached to a missing alter. they will automatically default back to original author if the alter is missing.

if you intended to make that first alter (not Brisa) into an alter with a different name, you need to set the username of the alter. the username is like the forum username. you choose it once, and NEVER change it. the code will use the username to store first. if no username, then it stores display name. but if you change display name, it now has no way to link it. if you go into your alter lists, and give the alters a username, it will store as username from then on. If you want to re-link those 2 posts to that first Alter (not Brisa), change his display name back to Nickel. edit the post and re-save it. it should change the stored data to the username now that it has one.

again, pick a username in the beginning, and never change it. you can change the display name all you want after that and it will use the new display name.

[melodypottersnape]

I've made an rpg site recently and in it the players can make multiple characters. Well I first tested this by making it where I had four Alters: Albus, Septimus, Narcissa, Bliase. But everytime I click on an altars name in the dropbox only Septimus or my username profile shows.

Am I doing something wrong? Or is a user only supposed to have one alter.

[Nickel]

Oct 28, 2013 3:39:19 GMT -8 Wormopolis said:

ok.. so looking at it with the laptop...

you have remodeled the mini-profile. my phone was showing the cover image but I didnt notice the hover effect. however, since you changed around how everything is placed inside, its mad that it cant find a post count in each mini-profile. yes you have it there, but the code expects the mini-profile to look normal. I cant forsee the millions of ways that people will change things, so I have to write it like nothing has been changed at all.

BUT.. there is a way around it. it wants to see

Posts: num

so what you can do, is in your mini-profile template, add this

<span style="display:none">Posts: $[user.posts]</span>

that way it doesnt mess up your hover device, AND the code gets what it wants.


on to your second problem. as I said before, it set keys for those first two posts. at some point you had an alter named "Nickel". now you dont. so those posts are attached to a missing alter. they will automatically default back to original author if the alter is missing.

if you intended to make that first alter (not Brisa) into an alter with a different name, you need to set the username of the alter. the username is like the forum username. you choose it once, and NEVER change it. the code will use the username to store first. if no username, then it stores display name. but if you change display name, it now has no way to link it. if you go into your alter lists, and give the alters a username, it will store as username from then on. If you want to re-link those 2 posts to that first Alter (not Brisa), change his display name back to Nickel. edit the post and re-save it. it should change the stored data to the username now that it has one.

again, pick a username in the beginning, and never change it. you can change the display name all you want after that and it will use the new display name.

Ok so I added that to the mini profile and it is working great Thanks so much!
One other question is do you know how to switch a default hover from a set premade for everyone to one that it will display only the avatar that the user uploads? 

[melodypottersnape]

Oh I figured out the problem I was having. Doing something dumb was all

[Wormopolis]

Oct 28, 2013 13:32:57 GMT -8 Nickel said:

Ok so I added that to the mini profile and it is working great Thanks so much!
One other question is do you know how to switch a default hover from a set premade for everyone to one that it will display only the avatar that the user uploads? 

I dont understand the question?    

[Wormopolis]

Oct 28, 2013 15:57:31 GMT -8 melodypottersnape said:

Oh I figured out the problem I was having. Doing something dumb was all

does it still only deserve 3 stars then?

[MFC's RPG & Fanfic Chain Forum]

D'oh! I had set up two of them and created a test post for each. Both showed perfectly, just as I'd set them up. I went on to create an Altar for the other members and their characters and looking back at the original test posts I made, they switched back to my general profile name, avatar, and signature area.

What happened? Did I pass some sort of limit that reset the two test posts? I posted them into the Alter plugin. Should I have used Alters Extension?

[Wormopolis]

Extension is for when you get to around 16 alters.. give or take.. it depends on how much you are storing.

do all of the alter have unique usernames? maybe a link to a post I can look at?