Alters [library support]

[Silv]

New posts are working just dandy for certain people, but not everybody. I can't figure out why some work and some don't. Especially since some show up in the recent posts function but not in the actual thread, and others work in the actual thread.

And I didn't edit the mini profile or touch the post count. Everything is reverted back to default because I've been trying to troubleshoot what went wrong.

[Wormopolis]

hmm. ok can you link me to a post that DOESNT have the alter showing correctly? that a guest can possibly see?

Im finishing up that footer function. it isnt meant to be permanent because its going to look to the admin like a normal alter drop. after you are done using it, you just have to disable it by setting a variable to false.

[Wormopolis]

put this into your global footer:

<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
   
   var turnOnPostAlterEditor=true;
   
   var emer_settings=pb.plugin.get('wormocodes_alters').settings;
   if (turnOnPostAlterEditor && proboards.data('user').id==1 && proboards.data('route').name.match(/edit_post|edit_thread/) && emer_settings.character_field) {
       var characterList=emer_settings.character_field;
       if (window.extended_character_field!=undefined) {
           characterList=characterList.concat(extended_character_field);
       }
       var alterdrop=$('<select class="button" id="alterdrop" onchange="pb.plugin.key(\'wormocodes_alter_post\').set({object_id:proboards.data(\'page\').post.id,value:this.value});">'+
                       '<option value="">Alters:</option></select>');
       for (cc=0; cc<characterList.length; cc++) {
           var curr_alter=characterList[cc];
           $("<option value='"+(curr_alter.username ? curr_alter.username : curr_alter.display_name)+"'>"+curr_alter.display_name+"</option>").appendTo(alterdrop);
       }
       if (alterdrop.find('option').length>1) {
           $('div.submit').find('span.float-right').append(alterdrop);
       }
   }
});
</script>



then you just have to edit any post and the drop alter will appear for the admin to change the alter assigned. set the variable at the top to false when done.

but first let me check into why the alter isnt showing. if the last post is showing it has a linked alter but the mini-profile isnt, there might be something else tripping it up.

[Silv]

Okay, so, this is probably the best place to link you because it's our testing board. HERE
But we have it set so guests can see the alters everywhere. 

And thank you so much for taking the time to help me figure out what's going on!  And thank you for the code!  But I'll wait before implementing it, like you suggested. 

[Wormopolis]

something in the companion is causing a critical exit so I am tracing that out now

[Silv]

Thank you so much for all the help! You're amazing! <3

[Wormopolis]

remove the HTML you have in the display name for the alter. the plugin is mad at that.

if you want to bold the usernames, add this to forum CSS

.mini-profile .user-link {font-weight: bold}

[Silv]

Thank you!

[Tohsaka Rin]

Wormo did you ever figure out what was adding extra spaces in parts of the alter mini-profile?

[Wormopolis]

no I didnt. there was so much complexity in there I couldnt trace it out

[Tohsaka Rin]

My members are saying that after the last two weeks the names are not showing up in the drop down box for their alters any more. They use to, but for whatever reason it is blank now.

We have the Text to Image plugin also running, but it never was causing a problem before now and I am wondering what might need to be updated to get it working again so that they can see the displays.

Other than that everything still works.

The browser versions that everyone is running is the latest Firefox and Chrome.

Thank you!

[Wormopolis]

so when they go to post the drop down appears but its empty?

[Tohsaka Rin]

Jan 4, 2014 21:26:14 GMT -8 Wormopolis said:

so when they go to post the drop down appears but its empty?

Yep. I even disabled the "Text to image" plugin but it still appears empty.

I made sure all usernames are unique too, as they use things like "Aozaki Touko::" with colons at the end. It was working till recently.

[Wormopolis]

ok.. so what was the recent thing you changed? did perhaps the alter lose the member it was linked to?

[Tohsaka Rin]

Checking.

All of the alters have users assigned to them, and are active. All of the images are there, not broken, and I have turned the "Text to Image" plugin off/on to see the results.

- Turning it off results in not seeing the text names without the image (Chrome and IE only)
- Turning it on results in not seeing the text names with images (Chrome and IE only)
---- Users with the latest IE and FireFox are not experiencing this issue. I do not know if it is something with only Chrome, and one user with an out-of-date IE or not?
---- The same users, when using FireFox, do not experience this issue. Maybe it is really just IE and Chrome after all?
---- I do not know if there is something that needs to be updated in either the Alias or the Text to Image plugins to account for this change?
------ It appears that it's only been something within this last week. Which was only me adding four new alias' to the plugin. Removing those alias' does not roll-back the issue.
- I remade all the alias' after dumping the plugins and reloading them, and it results in just a repeat of the above happening.

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[Unrelated]

The users would continue to use FireFox but there is a small issue with FireFox on our site now that it freezes for a second before loading stuff. We surmise it is due to a clock plugin that a previous coder put in - I wanted to remove it but do not fully know where it is in order to take it out. A portion of it is in the Forum Wrapper, a portion is in the Glide Menu plugin code.. but there appears to be a third part that I cannot find.

I wish I could get this debugged to stop the delay in FF, people think that it is crashing rather than just hiccuping. Don't fully know why.