NPC Profiles

[nakanosensei]

Feb 11, 2014 21:32:52 GMT -8 Brian said:

Adding More Fields

As of 1.2.0 you no longer have to edit the source code of the plugin to add new fields. Just go to Plugins > Build > NPC Profiles, click on the User Interface tab, then go to the NPC List tab and add as many fields as you like to the Auto Form section there. This also works for the expansion plugin.


Hii , sorry I'm a bit puzzled, I try to follow those instructions, but I dont see any User Interface tab in the NPC profiles sections. Anyone can help?

[Brian]

Aug 19, 2020 7:36:51 GMT -8 nakanosensei said:

Feb 11, 2014 21:32:52 GMT -8 Brian said:

Adding More Fields

As of 1.2.0 you no longer have to edit the source code of the plugin to add new fields. Just go to Plugins > Build > NPC Profiles, click on the User Interface tab, then go to the NPC List tab and add as many fields as you like to the Auto Form section there. This also works for the expansion plugin.

Hii , sorry I'm a bit puzzled, I try to follow those instructions, but I dont see any User Interface tab in the NPC profiles sections. Anyone can help?

Are you on the Build page or the Manage page?

The Manage page is where you go to change a plugin's settings, versus the Build page which is where you go to customize a plugin's underlying code and the fields that show up in its settings. Make sure you're going to Plugins > Build in your admin area before selecting the plugin.

Alternatively you can just click on the Build Plugin button at the top of the plugin settings and it should take you to the page that has the User Interface tab.

[nakanosensei]

Thank you very much! 

[Alice in Zombieland]

Hello, I use this on my forums.net site but it doesn't have the bottom right corner nav menu is there a way to enable that or force it to appear?

[Brian]

Oct 18, 2020 11:45:53 GMT -8 Alice in Zombieland said:

Hello, I use this on my forums.net site but it doesn't have the bottom right corner nav menu is there a way to enable that or force it to appear?

I think the Yootil plugin has a feature like this but I might need to add functionality to this plugin to get it to show there based on what I'm seeing in its documentation. I'll have a look at that when I have some free time.

[Brian]

Alice in Zombieland:

I had a look at it and it works pretty much exactly how I'd expect it to work. The only thing is the bar where the icon appears will end up showing on the bottom left instead of the bottom right since that's how Yootil works (at least on PB... I dunno if it's the same on Forums.net). It'd be pretty easy to just add the icon, but if you want the micro-profile and its menu to show up there too it'll take a bit more coding on my part since the menu would end up offscreen on the left side of the page.

It'd be possible to make another plugin that moves the Yootil bar to the right but it's probably better I get the menu to account for being offscreen on the left anyways since it's already possible to move the buttons that make it appear to begin with.

[Alice in Zombieland]

I've tried out the Yootil plugin on the site, while it does have the option to move from one location to another (Top, bottom, left, right etc.) it doesn't display anything at all even when placed above the plugins that I'm assuming it would benefit. I'll do some digging into the coding as well and see if I can find a way to get it to work. I really like that feature on the proboards build.

Also, Edit: Thank you for looking into it!

[Brian]

Oct 26, 2020 16:35:15 GMT -8 Alice in Zombieland said:

I've tried out the Yootil plugin on the site, while it does have the option to move from one location to another (Top, bottom, left, right etc.) it doesn't display anything at all even when placed above the plugins that I'm assuming it would benefit. I'll do some digging into the coding as well and see if I can find a way to get it to work. I really like that feature on the proboards build.

Also, Edit: Thank you for looking into it!

Yeah, right now my plugin doesn't support it. Any plugin that wants to use the bar would have to explicitly call upon one of Yootil's API functions, so I would need to code that into an update to the NPC Profiles plugin.

[Alice in Zombieland]

Oh got it! Awesome work nonetheless, thank you for the responses. Look forward to future updates.

[Tiffamu]

Is there a way to have the NPC profiles show their recent posts and threads like with normal members?

[Brian]

Jan 3, 2021 20:27:37 GMT -8 Tiffamu said:

Is there a way to have the NPC profiles show their recent posts and threads like with normal members?

This isn't possible as NPCs aren't actual users.

Anything added by this plugin is purely cosmetic and isn't indexed any differently by the forum's search feature.

[Emerson Rook]

Hello SIr

I am not sure if this was asked in here but is there anyway to assign an NPC to just one member instead of a group?

Thank you for your answer

[Brian]

Jan 19, 2021 15:05:19 GMT -8 Emerson Rook said:

Hello SIr

I am not sure if this was asked in here but is there anyway to assign an NPC to just one member instead of a group?

Thank you for your answer

The plugin is designed to only support groups. It's not possible to assign NPCs to members directly.

I always recommend the following setup for the plugin:

Feb 11, 2014 21:32:52 GMT -8 Brian said:

The most highly recommended way to set up your NPC permissions is to create hidden groups in Members > Member Groups for each of your NPCs, then to add those groups to the plugin. The Plugin Keys section should have its dropdown set to Custom and all of your NPC groups should be added to the And members in the groups section. Then in the NPC List tab you'd add each NPC's group to the Who can use this NPC? column for each respective NPC.

This way when you manage a member's groups you can assign the group representing the NPC to them, effectively accomplishing the same thing as what you're looking to do.

[Emerson Rook]

Jan 19, 2021 16:47:12 GMT -8 Brian said:

Jan 19, 2021 15:05:19 GMT -8 Emerson Rook said:

Hello SIr

I am not sure if this was asked in here but is there anyway to assign an NPC to just one member instead of a group?

Thank you for your answer

The plugin is designed to only support groups. It's not possible to assign NPCs to members directly.

I always recommend the following setup for the plugin:

Feb 11, 2014 21:32:52 GMT -8 Brian said:

The most highly recommended way to set up your NPC permissions is to create hidden groups in Members > Member Groups for each of your NPCs, then to add those groups to the plugin. The Plugin Keys section should have its dropdown set to Custom and all of your NPC groups should be added to the And members in the groups section. Then in the NPC List tab you'd add each NPC's group to the Who can use this NPC? column for each respective NPC.

This way when you manage a member's groups you can assign the group representing the NPC to them, effectively accomplishing the same thing as what you're looking to do.

Thank you very much for the reply.  Appreciate it.

[snapu]

Hi! Great addon. For my forum we're trying to change the sizes of the avatar for the mini profile without breaking the layout in the process? We've tried to customize the theme's CSS in order to make the default size larger but that managed to break the code in the process. 

Any help or pointers would be appreciated? Thanks!