NPC Profiles

[nianaris]

Is there a way to disable post count if the user creates a post under 'reply' and selects the NPC?

[Eclipse]

Hi Is there a way to customize NPC profiles, i.e. to make avatars bigger?

[utvrider]

Hi, is there way (When viewing the main board list) to change "last post by _____" It shows the username of me, not the NPC profile i post under.
Thank you.

[Brian]

Aug 12, 2018 2:03:54 GMT -8 nianaris said:

Is there a way to disable post count if the user creates a post under 'reply' and selects the NPC?

Nope. The plugin is only disguising the post. The user still made the post so their post count increases. There's also absolutely no way for a plugin to turn the post count feature on or off.

Aug 13, 2018 11:10:02 GMT -8 Eclipse said:

Hi Is there a way to customize NPC profiles, i.e. to make avatars bigger?

You can customize your theme's CSS to increase their size. The plugin uses the mini-profile HTML of the default theme to output the NPC's mini-profile, so it should inherit any CSS changes that increase the size of users' avatars if your theme isn't too different from the default.

Aug 13, 2018 15:19:54 GMT -8 utvrider said:

Hi, is there way (When viewing the main board list) to change "last post by _____" It shows the username of me, not the NPC profile i post under.
Thank you.

The third post in this thread contains instructions on how to make the NPC name appear there.

support.proboards.com/post/5732964/thread

[nianaris]

Aug 13, 2018 17:24:32 GMT -8 Brian said:

Aug 12, 2018 2:03:54 GMT -8 nianaris said:

Is there a way to disable post count if the user creates a post under 'reply' and selects the NPC?

Nope. The plugin is only disguising the post. The user still made the post so their post count increases. There's also absolutely no way for a plugin to turn the post count feature on or off.

Alrighty, thanks for the answer. Wasn't sure how it worked exactly so I figured I'd just ask.

[Eclipse]

Aug 13, 2018 17:24:32 GMT -8 Brian said:

Aug 13, 2018 11:10:02 GMT -8 Eclipse said:

Hi Is there a way to customize NPC profiles, i.e. to make avatars bigger?

You can customize your theme's CSS to increase their size. The plugin uses the mini-profile HTML of the default theme to output the NPC's mini-profile, so it should inherit any CSS changes that increase the size of users' avatars if your theme isn't too different from the default.

Thank you, Brian. However, we have customized mini profiles and the problem is, that the avatar is not bigger, however, there is a hover over a mini profile which is 200x300. Is there a way to put this hover on NPC mini profiles as well?

[Brian]

Aug 16, 2018 8:04:52 GMT -8 Eclipse said:

Aug 13, 2018 17:24:32 GMT -8 Brian said:

You can customize your theme's CSS to increase their size. The plugin uses the mini-profile HTML of the default theme to output the NPC's mini-profile, so it should inherit any CSS changes that increase the size of users' avatars if your theme isn't too different from the default.

Thank you, Brian. However, we have customized mini profiles and the problem is, that the avatar is not bigger, however, there is a hover over a mini profile which is 200x300. Is there a way to put this hover on NPC mini profiles as well?

You can customize the mini-profile HTML in the Profile HTML tab of the plugin to match your existing mini-profiles. As long as you use the same classes it should inherit your existing styles.

[Eclipse]

Aug 16, 2018 8:17:29 GMT -8 Brian said:

Aug 16, 2018 8:04:52 GMT -8 Eclipse said:

Thank you, Brian. However, we have customized mini profiles and the problem is, that the avatar is not bigger, however, there is a hover over a mini profile which is 200x300. Is there a way to put this hover on NPC mini profiles as well?

You can customize the mini-profile HTML in the Profile HTML tab of the plugin to match your existing mini-profiles. As long as you use the same classes it should inherit your existing styles.

I'll try, thank you for your support

[Eclipse]

I am sorry but nothing works for me...

I just want the attached NPC profile to be bigger (200 (width) x 450 (height)), and the avatar to be 200  x 300  px.

I've tried to copy and adjust HTML from mini profiles to NPC mini profiles but it just doesn't work (or I'm just not able to do it).

I'd like to mentioned that we don't have big avatars. Our avatars are standard size - 150x150, however, we have hovers over avatars that are 200x300. For NPCs, I'd like the avatars to be 200x300.

Could anyone help me please?

EDIT: No need for help anymore, I've found a solution

[Beedle]

Hello Brian! Love the plugin, but we seem to be having some problems with the admin powers. I have the main account and I can edit all posts like the plugin is supposed to let me. However, my co-admin can't. I've been through her global powers and she should be able to edit all the same things that I can with a few exceptions which shouldn't affect this plugin. Any ideas as to why this is?

[Brian]

Aug 31, 2018 6:10:44 GMT -8 Beedle said:

Hello Brian! Love the plugin, but we seem to be having some problems with the admin powers. I have the main account and I can edit all posts like the plugin is supposed to let me. However, my co-admin can't. I've been through her global powers and she should be able to edit all the same things that I can with a few exceptions which shouldn't affect this plugin. Any ideas as to why this is?

There is only one main admin regardless of the powers you assign, so the main admin setting in the plugin will only affect you: user ID 1.

If you want others to be able to use the NPCs you need to go into the NPC List tab and specify what groups should be able to use each NPC via the Add Group link next to each NPC's name.

As mentioned in the tooltip for that column:

Choose which groups have permission to add this NPC to posts. If no groups are specified the NPC will not be usable by anyone on the forum.

[Beedle]

Aug 31, 2018 8:47:20 GMT -8 Brian said:

Aug 31, 2018 6:10:44 GMT -8 Beedle said:

Hello Brian ! Love the plugin, but we seem to be having some problems with the admin powers. I have the main account and I can edit all posts like the plugin is supposed to let me. However, my co-admin can't. I've been through her global powers and she should be able to edit all the same things that I can with a few exceptions which shouldn't affect this plugin. Any ideas as to why this is?

There is only one main admin regardless of the powers you assign, so the main admin setting in the plugin will only affect you: user ID 1.

If you want others to be able to use the NPCs you need to go into the NPC List tab and specify what groups should be able to use each NPC via the Add Group link next to each NPC's name.

As mentioned in the tooltip for that column:

Choose which groups have permission to add this NPC to posts. If no groups are specified the NPC will not be usable by anyone on the forum.

Ah, right. All I needed was eyes. Thanks, Brian!

[akajin]

Hello there Brian !

I'm pretty sure this has been asked already but I am very very new to coding and was wonder if there was a way to have the NPC mini profiles match my themes mini profile?

I tried changing the mini profile html among other things but it's not working for me and I'm not entirely sure what to do.

Here's a link to the forum

Thanks!

[Brian]

Sept 4, 2018 17:26:44 GMT -8 akajin said:

Hello there Brian !

I'm pretty sure this has been asked already but I am very very new to coding and was wonder if there was a way to have the NPC mini profiles match my themes mini profile?

I tried changing the mini profile html among other things but it's not working for me and I'm not entirely sure what to do.

Here's a link to the forum

Thanks!

You're halfway there. The main problem is there's no way for the plugin to support if statements or foreach loops in your template code which is why they're rendering as plain text. Anything that uses those needs to be substituted with HTML that doesn't use if statements.

The stuff at the bottom of this post explains how to output HTML that behaves like an if statement in case you need it for certain fields:
support.proboards.com/post/5732962/thread

In short, there's no easy answer for how to accomplish this. Your ability to duplicate your mini-profile will be dependent on your ability to strip out anything unnecessary within the HTML and substitute it appropriately. You'll want to basically empty all of the user-specific data out of your template and fill it in with the appropriate NPC data instead.

[akajin]

Sept 5, 2018 13:55:09 GMT -8 Brian said:

Sept 4, 2018 17:26:44 GMT -8 akajin said:

Hello there Brian !

I'm pretty sure this has been asked already but I am very very new to coding and was wonder if there was a way to have the NPC mini profiles match my themes mini profile?

I tried changing the mini profile html among other things but it's not working for me and I'm not entirely sure what to do.

Here's a link to the forum

Thanks!

You're halfway there. The main problem is there's no way for the plugin to support if statements or foreach loops in your template code which is why they're rendering as plain text. Anything that uses those needs to be substituted with HTML that doesn't use if statements.

The stuff at the bottom of this post explains how to output HTML that behaves like an if statement in case you need it for certain fields:
support.proboards.com/post/5732962/thread

In short, there's no easy answer for how to accomplish this. Your ability to duplicate your mini-profile will be dependent on your ability to strip out anything unnecessary within the HTML and substitute it appropriately. You'll want to basically empty all of the user-specific data out of your template and fill it in with the appropriate NPC data instead.

I see! Thank you so much for the help! I'll see what I can do.