Tutorials

Michael · April 12, 2011

When people Like content, they can choose whether they want to get updates about the content. No configuration is necessary for that, the end users select what they want to do when they choose to Like something.

Inu · April 12, 2011

When people Like content, they can choose whether they want to get updates about the content. No configuration is necessary for that, the end users select what they want to do when they choose to Like something.

Thank you! Should have tested it myself.

Inu · April 14, 2011

Having a blast with this. And this should hopefully be the last of my onslaught of questions.

Is there a way to change how many characters the tutorial description can be shown in the category (that lists the tutorials) before it gets cut off?

Like for the tutorial listing, I want to allow say 500 characters.

I know how to make the skin edits so that won't be an issue.

Michael · April 15, 2011

There's a setting for that, "Maximum Article Description".

Inu · April 15, 2011

Hmm, that doesn't actually change the cut-off limit in the tutorial-forum view, maybe it has to do with the limit set by a different ipb file.

Michael · April 15, 2011

No, that's definitely the right (and only) thing that controls this. I have just verified this on my development board.

You can see it doing this on my site:

http://invisionfocus.com/tutorials/category/1-ipboard/

Inu · April 15, 2011

Oh, you're right, thanks! I confused it with another setting.

Inu · April 16, 2011

Is there a way to auto-approve or disable the pending tutorial system? It's not a good option for my board where there are a lot of articles being created!

Michael · April 17, 2011

If you set each permission mask to 'auto-post' in each category, then each submission members make will get auto approved and not need to be pending.

Inu · April 17, 2011

Thanks, got it!

KittyCanuck · April 27, 2011

On the mobile version of my site, the Tutorials section is active, but every section says "0 Tutorials", even when you can click into the categories and see and read the tutorials posted there.

I wasn't even expecting it to work on the mobile, so I'm impressed!

Michael · April 27, 2011

Woops, to patch that, edit the skin_tutorials_display -> mainPage template for the Mobile skin, find:

						{parse expression="intval($data['files'])"} {$this->lang->words['tutorials']}

Change to:

						{parse expression="intval($data['articles'])"} {$this->lang->words['tutorials']}

Save the template bit.

I have patched this for the next version.

KittyCanuck · April 28, 2011

Perfect fix, as always. ^_^

Also in the mobile skin, when you hover over the Tutotials link in the main page dropdown menu, it says "Go to %sTutotials" instead of "Go to Tutorials".

Jandar · April 28, 2011

Purchased this a few months back and just started getting around to using it. I had a question before I dig too heavily into it, though. If, for any reason, in the future, we decide to no longer use this app, can the existing tutorials be converted into forum posts? I don't foresee that happening, but I didn't foresee vB going into the toilet either! I didn't see this option anywhere in the settings/tools.

Michael · April 28, 2011

Perfect fix, as always. ^_^

Also in the mobile skin, when you hover over the Tutotials link in the main page dropdown menu, it says "Go to %sTutotials" instead of "Go to Tutorials".

Edit the skin_tutorials_external -> movileAppLink template, find this code:

title='{$this->lang->words['go_to_prefix']}{IPSLib::getAppTitle( 'tutorials' )}'

Change to:

title='{parse expression="sprintf( $this->lang->words['go_to_prefix'], IPSLib::getAppTitle( 'tutorials' ) )"}'

Save the template bit.

Purchased this a few months back and just started getting around to using it. I had a question before I dig too heavily into it, though. If, for any reason, in the future, we decide to no longer use this app, can the existing tutorials be converted into forum posts? I don't foresee that happening, but I didn't foresee vB going into the toilet either! I didn't see this option anywhere in the settings/tools.

I haven't created a tool to convert away from this app, most folks want to convert old content into this app instead of away from it.

Inu · May 30, 2011

Is there a way to change the access address? http://example.net/index.php?/tutorial/

Azoun · May 31, 2011

Hi,

Can you tell me what I need to add or adjust and in what template/css etc to get the line under the image to go to the left border please? The image below shows exactly what I mean:

Many thanks

Andy

Michael · May 31, 2011

Is there a way to change the access address? http://example.net/index.php?/[u]tutorial[/u]/

You can adjust the code in the /extensions/furlTemplates.php file to change URL structures.

Hi,

Can you tell me what I need to add or adjust and in what template/css etc to get the line under the image to go to the left border please? The image below shows exactly what I mean:

Many thanks

Andy

You probably want to ask the skin author, I have no idea how he added any of those lines.

Inu · June 3, 2011


$_SEOTEMPLATES = array( 'cat'   => array( 'app'    	=> 'tutorials',

          	'allowRedirect' => 1,

          	'out'   		=> array( '#app=tutorials(?:&|&amp;)cat=(.+?)(&|$)#i', 'archive/category/$1-#{__title__}/$2' ),

          	'in'        	=> array( 'regex'   => "#/archive/category/(\d+?)-#i",

           		'matches' => array( array( 'app', 'archive' ), array( 'cat', '$1' ) ) ) ),


  	'article'   	=> array( 'app'    	=> 'tutorials',

          	'allowRedirect' => 1,

          	'out'   		=> array( '#app=tutorials(?:&|&amp;)article=(.+?)(&|$|\#)#i', 'archive/article/$1-#{__title__}/$2' ),

          	'in'        	=> array( 'regex'   => "#/tutorials/article/(\d+?)-#i",

           		'matches' => array( array( 'app', 'tutorials' ), array( 'article', '$1' ) ) ) ),


  	'all_comments'  => array( 'app'   		=> 'tutorials',

          	'allowRedirect' => 1,

          	'out'   		=> array( '#app=tutorials(?:&|&amp;)module=display(?:&|&amp;)section=comments?(&|$)#i', 'tutorials/comments/$2' ),

          	'in'        	=> array( 'regex'   => "#/tutorials/comments#i",

           		'matches' => array( array( 'app', 'tutorials' ), array( 'module', 'display' ), array( 'section', 'comments' ) ) ) ),


  	'adv_stats' 	=> array( 'app'   		=> 'tutorials',

          	'allowRedirect' => 1,

          	'out'   		=> array( '#app=tutorials(?:&|&amp;)module=display(?:&|&amp;)section=stats?(&|$)#i', 'tutorials/stats/$2' ),

          	'in'        	=> array( 'regex'   => "#/tutorials/stats#i",

           		'matches' => array( array( 'app', 'tutorials' ), array( 'module', 'display' ), array( 'section', 'stats' ) ) ) ),


  	'random_art'	=> array( 'app'   		=> 'tutorials',

          	'allowRedirect' => 1,

          	'out'   		=> array( '#app=tutorials(?:&|&amp;)module=actions(?:&|&amp;)section=random?(&|$)#i', 'tutorials/random/$2' ),

          	'in'        	=> array( 'regex'   => "#/tutorials/random#i",

           		'matches' => array( array( 'app', 'tutorials' ), array( 'module', 'actions' ), array( 'section', 'random' ) ) ) ),


  	'app=tutorials' => array( 'app'   		=> 'tutorials',

          	'allowRedirect' => 1,

          	'out'   		=> array( '#app=tutorials$#i', 'archive/' ),

          	'in'        	=> array( 'regex'   => "#/archive/?$#i",

           		'matches' => array( array( 'app', 'tutorials' ) ) ) ),

   	);

That doesn't seem to work. I want to rename tutorials to archive.

Michael · June 3, 2011

I only support the mod working the way it's designed, any customizations like this are up to you to complete. I know others have done similar things in the past, maybe one of them can chime in and assist.

.Ian · June 3, 2011

Try


$_SEOTEMPLATES = array( 'cat'   => array( 'app'     	=> 'tutorials',

            	'allowRedirect' => 1,

            	'out'               	=> array( '#app=tutorials(?:&|&amp;)cat=(.+?)(&|$)#i', 'archive/category/$1-#{__title__}/$2' ),

            	'in'        	=> array( 'regex'   => "#/archive/category/(\d+?)-#i",

                    	'matches' => array( array( 'app', 'tutorials' ), array( 'cat', '$1' ) ) ) ),


    	'article'   	=> array( 'app'     	=> 'tutorials',

            	'allowRedirect' => 1,

            	'out'               	=> array( '#app=tutorials(?:&|&amp;)article=(.+?)(&|$|\#)#i', 'archive/article/$1-#{__title__}/$2' ),

            	'in'        	=> array( 'regex'   => "#/archive/article/(\d+?)-#i",

                    	'matches' => array( array( 'app', 'tutorials' ), array( 'article', '$1' ) ) ) ),


    	'all_comments'  => array( 'app'             	=> 'tutorials',

            	'allowRedirect' => 1,

            	'out'               	=> array( '#app=tutorials(?:&|&amp;)module=display(?:&|&amp;)section=comments?(&|$)#i', 'archive/comments/$2' ),

            	'in'        	=> array( 'regex'   => "#/archive/comments#i",

                    	'matches' => array( array( 'app', 'tutorials' ), array( 'module', 'display' ), array( 'section', 'comments' ) ) ) ),


    	'adv_stats' 	=> array( 'app'             	=> 'tutorials',

            	'allowRedirect' => 1,

            	'out'               	=> array( '#app=tutorials(?:&|&amp;)module=display(?:&|&amp;)section=stats?(&|$)#i', 'archive/stats/$2' ),

            	'in'        	=> array( 'regex'   => "#/archive/stats#i",

                    	'matches' => array( array( 'app', 'tutorials' ), array( 'module', 'display' ), array( 'section', 'stats' ) ) ) ),


    	'random_art'	=> array( 'app'             	=> 'tutorials',

            	'allowRedirect' => 1,

            	'out'               	=> array( '#app=tutorials(?:&|&amp;)module=actions(?:&|&amp;)section=random?(&|$)#i', 'archive/random/$2' ),

            	'in'        	=> array( 'regex'   => "#/archive/random#i",

                    	'matches' => array( array( 'app', 'tutorials' ), array( 'module', 'actions' ), array( 'section', 'random' ) ) ) ),


    	'app=tutorials' => array( 'app'             	=> 'tutorials',

            	'allowRedirect' => 1,

            	'out'               	=> array( '#app=tutorials$#i', 'archive/' ),

            	'in'        	=> array( 'regex'   => "#/archive/?$#i",

                    	'matches' => array( array( 'app', 'tutorials' ) ) ) ),

    	);

Hopefully I have caught them all.

jose.rob.jr · June 4, 2011

Next version you could add support for topic images, like Invision Power does with IP.Downloads, so people could use small icons to show what members will learn with the tutorial :)

Michael · June 5, 2011

Next version you could add support for topic images, like Invision Power does with IP.Downloads, so people could use small icons to show what members will learn with the tutorial :)

OK, added that to my feature suggestion list.

angkat114 · June 8, 2011

Hi Michael,

I just purchased your tutorial application today. I just have one question for now, if I want the latest tutorials to show up in my portal as the main articles, what exportable tag should I use? Right now the portal plugin I saw from the tutorials are all for the side boxes.

I haven't really explored the whole settings yet but this is looking good. :D

EDIT:

Like any language string in IP.Board, just go to the language you want to modify and search for the specific word you want to change, and it will point you to the item to modify.

Uhm..I still don't understand where I can find the language to modify. =/

Michael · June 8, 2011

I just purchased your tutorial application today. I just have one question for now, if I want the latest tutorials to show up in my portal as the main articles, what exportable tag should I use? Right now the portal plugin I saw from the tutorials are all for the side boxes.

The portal plugins included in this application are just designed for the side boxes. The main articles plugin for the portal pulls content from a forum, I can't modify that plugin to pull tutorials instead, as that's not part of this application. You can either have your tutorials create support topics in a dedicated forum and point that main articles plugin to that forum, or use one of the built-in plugins and put it in the main area and reskin it to look the way you want.

Uhm..I still don't understand where I can find the language to modify. =/

On the Manage Languages page on the Look & Feel tab of the Admin CP.

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