Ditchmonkey Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 One of the most important issues facing Vbulletin forum owners thinking about switching to IPB is the reaction from the users. If the user experience changes too much, we could really upset our user base. I am happy to report that since going live with my IPB conversion yesterday, I have had a lot of good feedback on the switch. However, there is one feature that many of my users, and myself, are missing from Vbulletin: in Vbulletin when a user visits the site, all threads that have new posts since the users last visit are highlighted in bold in the forum view. This is a great feature and my users really liked it. I'm hoping that IPB will consider implementing this to ease the transition from Vbulletin to IPB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfie Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 I know you're making a feature request, but here's something that should please your victims users... in the ACP, go to Look & Feel, edit the skins HTML. Forum View / forumIndexTemplate Look for: That will give you the same effect. :) I'm sure there's a way to do it via CSS, but would still have to make use of the logic. <if test="istracking:|:! empty($data['trackingTopic'])">{parse replacement="watch_small"}</if> <a id="tid-link-{$data['tid']}" href="{parse url="showtopic={$data['tid']}" base="public" template="showtopic" seotitle="{$data['title_seo']}"}" title='View topic, started on {$data['start_date']}' class='topic_title'>{$data['title']}</a> Replace with: <if test="istracking:|:! empty($data['trackingTopic'])">{parse replacement="watch_small"}</if> <a id="tid-link-{$data['tid']}" href="{parse url="showtopic={$data['tid']}" base="public" template="showtopic" seotitle="{$data['title_seo']}"}" title='View topic, started on {$data['start_date']}' class='topic_title'><if test="$data['go_new_post'] === true"><b>{$data['title']}</b><else />{$data['title']}</if></a> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ditchmonkey Posted July 31, 2009 Author Share Posted July 31, 2009 Well I tried that and it threw everything out of whack. That's not quite the answer but it seems close. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfarber Posted July 31, 2009 Share Posted July 31, 2009 Instead of showing the link in bold, we put an orange clickable icon next to the thread title, and highlight the topic marker all the way to the left. It would be trivial to make the link bold through a skin edit. Out of curiosity, how did Wolfie's edit through your display off exactly? I haven't verified it completely, but it seems to be close (if not actually the correct way to do it)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ditchmonkey Posted July 31, 2009 Author Share Posted July 31, 2009 What was wrong with wolfies code was that it shifted the thread titles way to the right and created a bunch of extra blank space. This could have been a copy and paste error on my part. I thought there was another problem but now I see that it is a forum behavior I don't understand and maybe you could help me understand: You mentioned the orange icons and I looked at those but they were appearing for a great number of threads (at least the entire first page of results). Wolfies code made everything bold but now I see this is inline with the forum behavior. However it seems to me that the appearance of the orange icons should match the threads you see when you click "new content" which was about 10 total at the time of testing. Hundreds of threads were marked with the orange icons. Why the difference? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Management Charles Posted July 31, 2009 Management Share Posted July 31, 2009 Try marking your board as read. Since you're a conversion IPB thinks that all topics are unread. Clicking mark as read will "reset" everything for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ditchmonkey Posted July 31, 2009 Author Share Posted July 31, 2009 [quote name='Charles' date='31 July 2009 - 12:21 PM' timestamp='1249071677' post='1836250'] Try marking your board as read. Since you're a conversion IPB thinks that all topics are unread. Clicking mark as read will "reset" everything for you. But that doesn't explain why the results for "view new content" differed from the threads marked as unread in the forum view. Is "new content" and "unread content" handled separately? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Management Charles Posted July 31, 2009 Management Share Posted July 31, 2009 View new content can show post since last visit or unread. It's an option in the user settings. By default it's since last visit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ditchmonkey Posted July 31, 2009 Author Share Posted July 31, 2009 Aha I get it all now. It's different than vbulletin but I don't dislike it. I'm not sure making titles bold to match vbulletin functionality when the functionality is just different anyway so I think I'll hold off on that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Management Charles Posted July 31, 2009 Management Share Posted July 31, 2009 Different isn't always a bad thing :) it's just ... different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfie Posted July 31, 2009 Share Posted July 31, 2009 The code I put up just basically uses the same variable that is used for creating the orange "get new posts" icon. All I did was take it, see if it's set and if so, it toggles on the bold for that title. When I did it on my board it worked like a charm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FirestarZA Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 [quote name='Charles' date='31 July 2009 - 08:28 PM' timestamp='1249072134' post='1836256'] View new content can show post since last visit or unread. It's an option in the user settings. By default it's since last visit. [/quote] Sorry. I know I saw this, but I for the life of me cannot find where this setting is. Can anyone tell me what to search for? I've now searched for everything I know, but I cannot find this setting anywhere... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrisecc Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 My Settings/Settings tab - last two on page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FirestarZA Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 Dude, you're a legend. I'm searching the hell out of that admin panel, and finding nothing! Thanks so much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrisecc Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 My pleasure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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