How do you add more stuff to your User Details?
#1
04-08-2009, 04:46 PM
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Lost somewhere in the Galaxy
Posts: 820
How do you add more stuff to your User Details?
In other v-bulletin forums you can add what car you drive and other things. Why dont we have that option here?
#2
04-08-2009, 05:47 PM
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Canada
Posts: 973
Administrators have to add the extra profile fields for us to be able to use them. It's quite easy to do, but uhh, ye have to have access to several bits of the admin control panel~
#3
04-08-2009, 06:03 PM
ill look into it. the thing to remember is that this site is owned by a parent company. their programmers hold the complete admin toolbar and source code so we cant always enact changes right away. there a... uh... well call it a process...
#6
04-08-2009, 06:14 PM
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Lost somewhere in the Galaxy
Posts: 820
yep spec 
you told me long time ago too you were a chemistry major.
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you told me long time ago too you were a chemistry major.edit:
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#7
04-08-2009, 08:06 PM
it should be in your profile. but i dont know how to make it appear in the threads themselves. some of those layout things are in code only. not in the admin CP
#9
04-09-2009, 12:46 AM
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Canada
Posts: 973
I do.
Go to AdminCP > Styles > Style Manager > Edit Templates (in the dropdown) > Postbit Templates > postbit (or postbit_legacy, if we were using the old-style layout)
Then it's simply a matter of deciding where you want the info to display. If you know anything about html it's pretty easy to go hunting, but if not, the most common spot is immediately after the Post Count display.
So, to make a field appear there, copy the template into Notepad, then find this:
After, add
Replace "NAME" with the name of the field, as you want it to display in the thread, and "X" with the id number of the profile field you've just added. This can be found in the Profile Field manager, which you have already used to add the field.
Sorry, I made it a book, but it is fairly straightforward once you've done it once or twice.
Go to AdminCP > Styles > Style Manager > Edit Templates (in the dropdown) > Postbit Templates > postbit (or postbit_legacy, if we were using the old-style layout)
Then it's simply a matter of deciding where you want the info to display. If you know anything about html it's pretty easy to go hunting, but if not, the most common spot is immediately after the Post Count display.
So, to make a field appear there, copy the template into Notepad, then find this:
HTML Code:
<if condition="$show['postcount']">#<a href="showpost.php?$session[sessionurl]p=$post[postid]&postcount=$post[postcount]" target="new" rel="nofollow" id="postcount$post[postid]" name="$post[postcount]"><strong>$post[postcount]</strong></a> </if>
HTML Code:
<if condition="$post[fieldX]"> <div class="smallfont"> NAME: $post[fieldX]" alt="$post[fieldX]" /> </div> </if>
Sorry, I made it a book, but it is fairly straightforward once you've done it once or twice.
Last edited by Saint Ebony; 04-09-2009 at 12:52 AM.
#10
04-09-2009, 02:00 AM
it would be nice if everything worked like YOUR over-the-counter version of VB BUT.... for the time being give me the credit of at least seeing the obvious.....
