Portal

Michael.J · December 18, 2011

If this is only happening with that skin, then it's most likely a skin issue. If you open Admin CP > Look & Feel Tab > select skin > Board Index > hookRecentTopics. Has this template been modified in the skin? If so you'll need to apply the same changes to the Portals own template bit in Admin CP > Look & Feel Tab > select skin > Portal > latestPosts

SkyDreaz · December 23, 2011

Ok, thanks, I have fixed it already.

dling · January 7, 2012

How do I edit the portal page? It is installed and I cant figure out how to get to it to edit it.

3DKiwi · January 7, 2012

Explain what you mean by edit the portal page. You can rearrange things and not include some blocks by editing the skin template.

3DKiwi

dling · January 8, 2012

I guess I don't understand the portal page thing at all. How can I view the page before posting it etc.

Michael.J · January 8, 2012

It's a little bit different to IP.Content or a custom pages mod. You don't actually post to it, it pulls topics from selected forums to display. There's a post a little bit above on how to setup this part of the Portal.

You post topics in the forum like normal and select which forums you want to pull topics from to display in the Portal. In Admin CP > Other Apps dropdown > Portal > Portal Settings > Latest Topics (Main) - Forums.

If you want to re-arrange the actual portal blocks, you can do so through the template bit. Open Admin CP > Look & Feel Tab > select skin > Portal > skeletonTemplate. You'll see it's divided into a left and right side. You'll need to move the portal tag blocks around to re-organize the layout. If you have anymore questions, just let me know.

dling · January 8, 2012

I do not understand how to edit the portal page and view it while editing. How do you layout the blocks and even add html text etc? Is that even possible? Is there a tutorial on how do use portal page and enable on your forum?

Thank you.

dling · January 8, 2012

Thanks. Is the using IP 3.2.3? How do I view what it is going to look like, exactly.

3DKiwi · January 8, 2012

I do not understand how to edit the portal page and view it while editing.

You can't really. All you can do is have 2 windows open. Edit the skin template on one browser page then on the other do a page refresh to see the changes.

The blocks are rearranged by moving the exportable tag code around. For example the calendar code looks something like this (or used to. I now don't use the Portal hook. I've made my own with IP Content):


<!--::calendar_show_current_month::-->

You can delete this line which removes the calendar or move it somewhere else in the code to reposition it.

To add html code you can type it in directly into the skin template. A better way is to create custom blocks with IP Content and type your html code into the blocks in the IP Content block creation wizard. You then paste in the block tag code into the skin template.

Hope this helps.

3DKiwi

dling · January 9, 2012

When I enable portal I get this error when I click on it.

Fatal error: Call to undefined method skin_blog_portal_17::tmpl_latestentries() in /home/christia/public_html/forums/admin/applications_addon/ips/blog/extensions/portalPlugins/blogs.php on line 109

Michael.J · January 10, 2012

Delete the blogs.php in the admin/applications_addon/ips/blog/extensions/portalPlugins/ folder.

Gabriel Petrelli · January 12, 2012

When I enable portal I get this error when I click on it.

Fatal error: Call to undefined method skin_blog_portal_17::tmpl_latestentries() in /home/christia/public_html/forums/admin/applications_addon/ips/blog/extensions/portalPlugins/blogs.php on line 109

Is there any other way to fix this besides deleting blogs.php? I want to display the blog block on the portal but when I add the code to the portal skeleton template I get that error.

Michael.J · January 12, 2012

I don't have any blocks for IPS 1st party apps yet. As the Portal is no longer included with IPB, IPS have removed the portal plugins for their apps. I'll provide support for them now but in the next update.

TracyIsland · January 12, 2012

Hi -

We're about to do an upgrade from 3.14 to 3.23.

We use the legacy portal in 3.14 as the main landing page of our board. We use several custom portal plugins that were developed for us. The main feature in our 3-column format is Esther Eisner's super news feed portal plugin in the middle. We also feature these customized plugins for the portal: auto birthday greeter, global message, latest social groups, agenda view (calendar events),

In our current portal, we do have the legacy blog portal plugin and we would really like to feature that going forward. I have read all the latest posts here about blogs and plugins. We do have IP Content so we can create a block if that will help. Would that be the best solution until you develop an update for 1st party apps?

Also, given your upgrade instructions:

If you've upgraded from IPB 3.0 or 3.1 and this is not a fresh install of IPB 3.2, you will need to remove the previous portal files and plugins.

Make sure you remove the portal folder from the admin/applications_addon/ips/ folder.

You may still have old portal plugins that have not been upgraded for IPB 3.2. You can find these in the applications extensions/portalPlugins/ folder.

If we follow these instructions, will all the custom plugins be erased?

Thanks,

Brian

Jan Niedośpiał · January 14, 2012

Hi!
How I can enable portal for guest, when forum is available only for registered users??
regards
cr3pt

TracyIsland · January 15, 2012

Hi!

How I can enable portal for guest, when forum is available only for registered users??

regards

cr3pt

Yes! At least you could. There is a hook built just for that ... looking ... yep, here it is: http://community.invisionpower.com/files/file/3575-view-portal-permissions/

It says for 3.14 so you'll need to check with the hook author to find out if it will work in 3.2 ..

Michael.J · January 16, 2012

We're about to do an upgrade from 3.14 to 3.23....

Yeah the easiest way would be to create an ip.content block and just add the block code to the skeletonTemplate.

Yes but if you do have some custom plugins in there, you can move them from the old portal folder (admin/applications_addon/ips/portal/extensions/portalPlugins) to the new portal folder (admin/applications_addon/other/portal/extensions/portalPlugins). Don't replace any new existing files (portal.php comes to mind)

Hi!

How I can enable portal for guest, when forum is available only for registered users??

regards

cr3pt

You have the force guests to login setting enabled?

bobblebum · January 19, 2012

I just upgraded from an erarlier version of IPB 3 to the newest and installed the portal. Seems I got everything working except the blocks on the left. Any help would be appreciated.


<if test="disablelightbox:|:!$this->settings['disable_lightbox']">

{parse template="include_lightbox" group="global" params=""}

</if>

<div class='ipsLayout ipsLayout_withright ipsLayout_largeright clearfix'>

	 <div class='ipsLayout_left'>

   <!--::portal_sitenav::-->

   <!--::online_users_show::-->

		    <!--::missing_get_image::-->	 

	 </div>

	  <div class='ipsLayout_content clearfix'>

		    <!--::upcoming_get_events::-->

	  </div>

	  <div class='ipsLayout_right'>

   <!--::latest_topics_sidebar::-->

		    <!--::google::-->

		    <!--::ebay::-->

	  </div>

</div>

{parse template="include_highlighter" group="global" params="1"}

http://www.bobblebums.com

3DKiwi · January 19, 2012

Your css looks to be set up for the default 2 columns. The following css properties (I think) need changing:

.ipsLayout .ipsLayout_left {
float: left;
margin-left: -210px;
width: 200px;
}

Should be something like:

.ipsLayout .ipsLayout_left {
float: left;
margin-left: -10px;
width: 200px;
}

#content, .main_width {
margin: 0 auto;
min-width: 960px;
width: 87% !important;

Should be something like:

#content, .main_width {
margin: 0 auto;
min-width: 960px;
width: 100% !important;

and

.ipsLayout_content {
float: left;
width: 80%;

should be something like:

.ipsLayout_content {
float: left;
width: 80%;

The result being

Your logo image needs fixing up. The way I would do it is to replace the blue background image branding_bg.png with a white image or you can edit the css

#branding {
background: url("http://www.bobblebums.com/bobbleheads/public/style_images/master/branding_bg.png") repeat-x scroll 0 0 #0F3854;
border-bottom: 1px solid #1B3759;
min-height: 64px;

Change to:

#branding {
background: none repeat scroll 0 0 white;
border-bottom: 1px solid #1B3759;
min-height: 64px;

The result being

Hope this helps.

3DKiwi

p.s. This was all done using the free Firebug plugin for Firefox. Essential for anyone wanting to adjust the css of their forums.

bobblebum · January 20, 2012

I made the changes, looks much better. Slight light blue on right of logo.

3DKiwi · January 20, 2012

I made the changes, looks much better. Slight light blue on right of logo.

Now all you have to do is fill in the middle :)

3DKiwi

Michael.J · January 20, 2012

Just following up your other communications, I assume everything is setup now? By the way, thanks for help 3DKiwi. :) My css knowledge is crap, saved me a bit of time there.

January 21, 2012

Just following up your other communications, I assume everything is setup now? By the way, thanks for help 3DKiwi. :smile: My css knowledge is crap, saved me a bit of time there.

Are ya gonna update the file on Markeplace buddy? Should i wait or install it now? :)

bobblebum · January 22, 2012

On the old portal I just set left 25%, middle 50% and right 25% in the portal skeleton template.

BTW, the middle will fill in when items in database reach current dates.

Michael.J · January 22, 2012

Are ya gonna update the file on Markeplace buddy? Should i wait or install it now? :smile:

Would just download now, nothing due in the next few weeks. I have started work on the next update but nothing will be ready for a while.

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