New Rank Salute [library support]

[Wormopolis]

Well its only buggy because I initially thought I could push to a key regardless if someone was on the page or not. if you can somehow make sure the admin's link is always on the page, then rankwatch always works.

so I made my request and if/when it gets filled, then everyone else in this thread gets their request as well.

[Misaka]

ah

ok

[blc]

Jan 13, 2014 17:27:24 GMT -8 Wormopolis said:

Well its only buggy because I initially thought I could push to a key regardless if someone was on the page or not. if you can somehow make sure the admin's link is always on the page, then rankwatch always works.

so I made my request and if/when it gets filled, then everyone else in this thread gets their request as well.

Wormopolis, I'm not sure what the bug is that you are working on, but i noticed something today at my test site. I installed the New Rank Salute and now the words Rank Watch appear in the Navigation bar AND at the bottom of ALL of my custom page links... ie the News, my Amazon affiliation, my Trivia drop down and the Games which I don't use on the live site. Just hover over any of those categories in the nav bar. Its easier to see with the Amazon one, you need to scroll to the bottom of the news sources and with the trivia one, the words Rank Watch, intermingle with the Admin log in log out area.

So, it seems to be attaching itself to the Nav drop menu plug in. Is that possible?

Here's my test site

truebluelibertytest.proboards.com/

[Wormopolis]

possibly. it attached to the nav bar by using the element type and class. if you have other elements with the same type and class it will grab on to them too. try arranging the order of the plugins

[blc]

Jan 15, 2014 18:22:49 GMT -8 Wormopolis said:

possibly. it attached to the nav bar by using the element type and class. if you have other elements with the same type and class it will grab on to them too. try arranging the order of the plugins

I put yours above the Nav plug in and that helped.

Thanks. So much to watch for, lol.

[Ace Of Charts]

I think it's great that Rank Watch appears in the menu, but I have no way to customize the link itself that I can figure out.

Could you possibly either:
* Add into the plugin the ability to utilize an image to use for its links, or
* Give me an address it uses, such that I could give it an image using the Classic ProBoards Menu plugin?

Thanks much in advance, Wormo.

[Wormopolis]

it doesnt really HAVE an address because it doesnt GO anywhere. it literally just opens the pop-up. you know that rank watch ONLY appears to you right?

[Ace Of Charts]

I realized that when I saw it says it only appears to admins.

Which, actually, it'd be nice if all staff (or potentially anyone?) could see the RankWatch, if that's okay and wouldn't take up a ton of resources?

If you're cool with making it so others can see the RankWatch, then I'd still want the ability to use an image for it, if that's something you'd be alright with doing; otherwise, if it's going to remain admin's-eyes-only, then you'd be right, and there'd be no point to using an image.

[Wormopolis]

the bigger problem with making it appear to others is that ALL of the rankwatch data is attached to the user key for the admin. so if the admin isnt on the page, then the data isnt available. otherwise I have to use a second key in the plugin to store data that everyone can access.

if you really want to convert that menu item into an image, I can give you some jQuery for the global footer that will affect it

[Ace Of Charts]

Regarding the key data: Didn't know that. o.o; Sorry to bother you about it then.

Regarding the Global Footer coding: If you would, please?

[Wormopolis]

yeah it was dicussed early on in the development, but in the interest of not using multiple keys in a single plugin that didnt really need it, I went with the admin-contains idea.

<script type="text/javascript">
$('li#rankWatchNotifier a').empty().append($('<img src="URL TO IMAGE HERE">'));
</script>

not tested that though

[Ace Of Charts]

Will test it later. Thank you very much, you're an awesome guy.

[Ace Of Charts]

I've stuck it in my Global Footer, as instructed, and put in the image link where it's asked for. The RankWatch link has not changed from plain text.

[Wormopolis]

maybe try

<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() { $('li#rankWatchNotifier a').empty().append($('<img src="URL TO IMAGE HERE">')); });
</script>

[Ace Of Charts]

That one worked! You didn't have to do that, you had lots of better things to do than cater to one guy who wanted one image link. XD

Copying it for others who might not be sure which one I was referring to:

Replace "RankWatch" Link Text with Image

<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() { $('li#rankWatchNotifier a').empty().append($('<img src="URL TO IMAGE HERE">')); });
</script>