Put labels in their own dropdown?

[Wormopolis]

you have to create them in the board settings

[Todge]

Ah-ha.. Thank you.

I was looking in Forum Settings.

[RedBassett]

Wormopolis, were you able to move the label menu elsewhere and keep the click events bound correctly?

[Wormopolis]

Not sure. I just wanted to see if they could move and gave up when it looked terrible.

[RedBassett]

I was able to recreate the look of the (root) menu (not the labels menu in full), but hadn't gotten the click events and stuff working

[Chris]

The click events would have to be rewritten since they make use of closure variables no longer applicable in a new menu context. The real problem though is real estate since the button needs somebody to scoot over and make room. Here's what I came up with so far ...




Maybe the OP can suggest another location...

[RedBassett]

I had only gotten around to trying to move the label submenu in the board view, hadn't tried in the post editor yet.

[Anaiu]

Chris In front of the subject line is just a preference; if it's easier to put it somewhere else, that would be fine!

I'm looking at my posting page on my site now, and it looks like there's lots of extra room to the right of the BB code buttons; maybe that would work?. Even if it needs to added with its own div like the thread descriptions or the word count, that would be totally acceptable.

[Todge]

What about here?

[Chris]

Jul 11, 2013 17:39:39 GMT -8 Anaiu said:

Chris In front of the subject line is just a preference; if it's easier to put it somewhere else, that would be fine!

I'm looking at my posting page on my site now, and it looks like there's lots of extra room to the right of the BB code buttons; maybe that would work?. Even if it needs to added with its own div like the thread descriptions or the word count, that would be totally acceptable.

I was actually considering replacing the word Subject: with the new dropdown and giving it a title of 'Subject' so it would serve a dual purpose of still labeling the subject line as well as perform its primary purpose of adding secondary labels

Jul 12, 2013 9:55:34 GMT -8 Todge said:

What about here?

It looks like Todge has been busy and came up with a working solution but I'll still post mine anyway since I just converted it to a plugin if for no other reason than to offer a choice.

The settings page of the plugin allows you to do some customizations


The default values has it replacing the subject label but if you wanted it to the right of bbcode buttons as you suggested then a location of .bbcode-editor .group:last-child and a method of after would accomplish that.

[Todge]

Jul 12, 2013 11:07:36 GMT -8 Chris said:

It looks like Todge has been busy and came up with a working solution.....

I haven't attached the events yet, I'll not continue with this unless it's wanted, as you've got a finished plugin.

[Chris]

Not finished actually Todge, I just found a bug regarding boards that have no labels defined plus I also want to add the ability to create multiple instances for cases such as the example where there is a desire to add it at the end of editor controls since that would require one for visual and one for bbcode

(working on a fix between real life chores)

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Update

Plugin has been updated (same link) to v0.0.2 now with the ability to support multiple drops if the move location setting (a jquery selector string) produces more than one location. The board is also tested to see if it actually has labels defined before making any changes.

If Anaiu still wants to place the dropper at the end of controls then this can now be accomplished for both editors by using the following settings

In the above example I added an additional class of "options_menu" since that gives it a 3D look by adding a dropshadow.
You can use any class or no classes as you see fit but if you wish to use multiple classes then separate them by spaces like you would normally. I would however not recommend that specific class in this particular example since it would give the menu a higher z-index than the options menu above it

[Anaiu]

Wooow, thank you very much Chris! ^_^ It works perfectly!

The only thing I noticed was that it still seems to try to replace the subject line on boards that don't have any labels, so the word "subject" is replaced by empty space. It doesn't matter so much on my site since I decided to put it at the end of the controls, but I thought you'd want to know.

Thanks again, everyone! ^_^

[Chris]

Jul 12, 2013 16:50:30 GMT -8 Anaiu said:

Wooow, thank you very much Chris! ^_^ It works perfectly!

The only thing I noticed was that it still seems to try to replace the subject line on boards that don't have any labels, so the word "subject" is replaced by empty space. It doesn't matter so much on my site since I decided to put it at the end of the controls, but I thought you'd want to know.

Thanks again, everyone! ^_^

My pleasure
I missed that little flaw you mentioned so revision 3 is now in the download link and thanks for the heads up.
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Revision 4 aborts move if the menu move location setting results in an invalid chosen location.

[leif]

Oh my! Exactly what I'm looking for! Was searching the plugin library for this and was going to request it, but found this!