Flag Important Threads (0.1.5)

[Timebomb007]

Aug 7, 2018 14:43:11 GMT -8 Todge said:

Timebomb007, can you please try this version....

Still not working in quick reply.

[Todge]

Can you please link me to a guest friendly thread on your.. The plugin is now working faultlessly on my test forum, so I need to see it on your forum to have any chance of finding out what the problem is.

[Sam]

Hello Todge !
I'm having a couple of problems with the plugin at the moment, and it won't allowed to mark some threads as important but will let me do others. Any idea about what could be happening?

Also, there are a few [] codes that don't work:

[LP]  prnt.sc/oaeuei

[PT] prnt.sc/oaeuvk

[PP] prnt.sc/oaevlp

And the total posts thing doesn't refresh and only displays the same number no matter what posts are made.
I have re-installed it, reset the key, tried version 0.1.4 Beta, but without avail.

[Todge]

Jul 4, 2019 0:11:40 GMT -8 Sam said:

Hello Todge !
I'm having a couple of problems with the plugin at the moment, and it won't allowed to mark some threads as important but will let me do others. Any idea about what could be happening?

Also, there are a few [] codes that don't work:

[LP]  prnt.sc/oaeuei

[PT] prnt.sc/oaeuvk

[PP] prnt.sc/oaevlp

And the total posts thing doesn't refresh and only displays the same number no matter what posts are made.
I have re-installed it, reset the key, tried version 0.1.4 Beta, but without avail.

[LP] [PT] and [PP] not working could be an issue with your layout. If the plugin can't find the information, it can't save and display it.

As for the issue with you not being able to mark certain threads important, have you noticed any pattern? Are they all in the same board? Do they have a different layout? etc.

For the first issue, can I please see a thread/board of your forum please, so I can try to work out what's going on.

Thanks.

[Sam]

Jul 4, 2019 9:32:04 GMT -8 Todge said:

Jul 4, 2019 0:11:40 GMT -8 Sam said:

Hello Todge !
I'm having a couple of problems with the plugin at the moment, and it won't allowed to mark some threads as important but will let me do others. Any idea about what could be happening?

Also, there are a few [] codes that don't work:

[LP]  prnt.sc/oaeuei

[PT] prnt.sc/oaeuvk

[PP] prnt.sc/oaevlp

And the total posts thing doesn't refresh and only displays the same number no matter what posts are made.
I have re-installed it, reset the key, tried version 0.1.4 Beta, but without avail.

[LP] [PT] and [PP] not working could be an issue with your layout. If the plugin can't find the information, it can't save and display it.

As for the issue with you not being able to mark certain threads important, have you noticed any pattern? Are they all in the same board? Do they have a different layout? etc.

For the first issue, can I please see a thread/board of your forum please, so I can try to work out what's going on.

Thanks.

What data does it need?

Not really, it just seems to be fairly randomised.

You have the designer rank for the moment. legomessage.boards.net and the theme is 'LMB Theme
'

[Todge]

Jul 4, 2019 23:09:02 GMT -8 Sam said:

Jul 4, 2019 9:32:04 GMT -8 Todge said:

[LP] [PT] and [PP] not working could be an issue with your layout. If the plugin can't find the information, it can't save and display it.

As for the issue with you not being able to mark certain threads important, have you noticed any pattern? Are they all in the same board? Do they have a different layout? etc.

For the first issue, can I please see a thread/board of your forum please, so I can try to work out what's going on.

Thanks.

What data does it need?

Not really, it just seems to be fairly randomised.

You have the designer rank for the moment. legomessage.boards.net and the theme is 'LMB Theme
'

[LP],[PT] & [PP] are the last poster info anfd the pst time.

The Last Poster Info can be grabbed from either the thread list page, that you have heavily customised, so that probably fails, and from the last post of the thread. If you set a thread as important from the Thread List, I'm guessing you have problems because the plugin can't find the information needed, if you set it as importatnt from within the thread, the plugin tries to remember the info from the thread list, which will probably fail in your case, and should set the unknowns as 'unknown', and if you set the thread as Important from the last page of the thread, the plugin will probably work, as all the info is readily available.

In most cases, when a thread is marked as important, the info should be updated when a new post is made, so the 'unknowns' should be updated with the info that was unavailable orginally.

As you have updated mini-profiles, the plugin may be tripping up getting the info from them too, but let's try to rule out some of the possible issues before I start pulling the plugin apart.

[adminabp]

Todge Two questions...

What would I need to add to make the thread titles display as bold?

Edit: I found this:

Sept 1, 2017 8:59:37 GMT -8 Todge said:

Thank YOU.. You are more than welcome.



This can be done from within the 'CSS Styling' tab within the plugin.. This is the sytax you need...

#IT-247>.main>a { color: red; }

The red number being the board number containing the post. If you hover your mouse over the link, you should see the link addredd appear in the bottom left of your screen (on a Windows PC) containing the number you need.

Which I tweaked into:


.main>a { font-weight: bold; }
Which worked!


And is there a way to change the name in the title bar from "Important Threads" to something else?

Edit: I found this in the thread:

Dec 21, 2014 14:55:45 GMT -8 Todge said:

Try putting this in your Global FOOTER...

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
$(document).ready(function(){
$('#important_threads .title_wrapper').html('New Title');
});
// -->
</script>

and change the red text to your chosen title.

I tried it and it didn't work for me. I saw where other people said it didn't work for them either. I did a little trial and error and finally got this:


<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
// Change Important Threads cell title
$(document).ready(function(){
$('#important_threads #title_wrapper>h2 ').html('Featured Threads');
});

// -->
</script>
Which did work!

Problems solved! Leaving the post with edits in case it helps anyone else.

[Todge]

Nice to hear adminabp.

It's good to know that there are still some that read the help theads.

[adminabp]

Would it be possible to have the plugin display the 'Board' the thread is from.

Since it can display threads from all over a forum, it might be handy.

I tweaked the template on my forum so that in thread lists from multiple boards it's clear where they come from ie:



But that doesn't affect the plugin. A separate column for it would be great as well.

Oct 24, 2019 12:43:50 GMT -8 Todge said:

Nice to hear adminabp .

It's good to know that there are still some that read the help theads.

I try.

[Todge]

Oct 26, 2019 9:53:39 GMT -8 adminabp said:

Would it be possible to have the plugin display the 'Board' the thread is from.

Since it can display threads from all over a forum, it might be handy.

I tweaked the template on my forum so that in thread lists from multiple boards it's clear where they come from ie:



But that doesn't affect the plugin. A separate column for it would be great as well.

Oct 24, 2019 12:43:50 GMT -8 Todge said:

Nice to hear adminabp .

It's good to know that there are still some that read the help theads.

I try.

Here's a version of the plugin that will record boards...

At the moment it will only add the board names to the Last Post cell, as in your image, and it will only display them in threads that have been marked as important AFTER the plugin has been updated.

I have yet to add it to the elsewhere, I will do that in the next couple of days.

[adminabp]

Oct 26, 2019 17:31:04 GMT -8 Todge said:

Here's a version of the plugin that will record boards...

At the moment it will only add the board names to the Last Post cell, as in your image, and it will only display them in threads that have been marked as important AFTER the plugin has been updated.

I have yet to add it to the elsewhere, I will do that in the next couple of days.

Awesome! Thank you.

[gb9454]

www.talkaboutfootballforum.com

Hi Todge

If you'd kindly take a look at my forum, you can see that I have Recently Updated Threads middle top, and Important Threads underneath.

I'd like them the other way round, please. i.e., Important Threads at the top, and Recently Updated Threads below.

Thank you.

[Todge]

Nov 8, 2019 7:14:55 GMT -8 gb9454 said:

www.talkaboutfootballforum.com

Hi Todge

If you'd kindly take a look at my forum, you can see that I have Recently Updated Threads middle top, and Important Threads underneath.

I'd like them the other way round, please. i.e., Important Threads at the top, and Recently Updated Threads below.

Thank you.

In your Forum Wrapper layout, you have correctly put '<div id="Important_Threads"></div>' above the Recent Threads cell, but you have not put 'Important_Threads' in the 'Alternative Cell ID' option of the plugin. Doing so should display them in the correct order.

[gb9454]

Ahh, something simple that I should have spotted. Thank you, Todge.

[Todge]

No worries..