Creating custom BBCode

[dean84]

I cannot seem to find the area where I go to create custom bbcode. Can anyone point me in the right direction please.

[Nathan Explosion]

Assuming you are talking about IPS4, there is no custom bbcode area. You can create custom buttons that perform actions but there is no bbcode management.

ACP -> Customization -> (Editor) Toolbars -> Add Button -> Custom

Alternatively, type bbcode in to the ACP search.

[dean84]

yeah I found that, but its nowhere near what I was hoping to do  was looking at creating custom bbcode to allow me to create tables. Where you can use the normal [table] sort of bbcode

[Nathan Explosion]

Utilise the CKEditor Tables plugin:

http://ckeditor.com/addon/table

 

[dean84]

Yeah, thats again not what I am after, I provide one of my users a spreadsheet which creates the code necessary to create a bbcode table, on my IPB 3 version it would work, and on xenforo I had it working, but on IPB 4, without the custom bbcode option, I can't get it to work.

I don't really want to allow him to post using html, but I guess I have very little choice right now

[Nathan Explosion]

3 minutes ago, dean84 said:

I don't really want to allow him to post using html, but I guess I have very little choice right now

You don't need to allow him to post using html - that plugin adds a button that allows the visual creation of a table, no html source access needed.

[dean84]

The problem is he doesn't know how to do that sort of thing, he is just a user on the forums who runs a prediction league, they used to post just basic text standings, but it was messy and hard to understand, so I created a spreadsheet for him which he could update, and it would spit out the code he needed to create a bbcode table.

Which would then create a table like this for him (there are 4 tables for his prediction league)

It has promotion places, relegation places, sorts it all in order of points and that sort of stuff.

[Nathan Explosion]

Click the top left cell of the table in the spreadsheet, extend the selection to the bottom right of the table.

Copy

Go to site.

Paste & Post.

Note: ckeditor will not put the colour of the rows in place on the pasted content, if copied from Excel. Old 'bug that isn't a bug but is a bug...maybe' that has 2 options:

1. Copy from Excel to Word, then copy from Word to site.
2. Put 2 configuration options in place in the ckeditor config.js file

'Bug' details: http://ckeditor.com/forums/Support/bugCopy-MS-Officewordexcel-and-paste-CKEditor

In short: the custom bbcode option is no longer available...IPS are effectively phasing out bbcode. Just offering you options here to adjust the process that your guy follows.

[InsideEdge]

You can embed google docs using this app.

 

[dean84]

Thanks Nathan, I will have a good play around with that, it would certainly make it easier for him.

 

Inside Edge, I currently use zoho spreadsheets, but will look into google docs too, thanks