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Post by WeezyFBaby October 1st 2011, 5:19 pm

Hello,

I was just wandering if its possible to have the chatbox displayed in every page of the forum So the members dont have to just be on the homepage to chat, They will be able to chat on any forum page. Thanks Smile
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Post by SLGray October 1st 2011, 7:09 pm

In the Who's Online section there is a clickable link to open a new window for the chatbox. If you do that, you can have two windows open: chatbox and forum.


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Post by WeezyFBaby October 1st 2011, 7:19 pm

oh ok thanks Smile
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Post by SLGray October 1st 2011, 7:22 pm

You are welcome. The link should say Join the Chat.


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Post by Legolover-361 October 1st 2011, 7:26 pm

If you switch to a customizable skin such as PunBB or PhpBB2 (I think that's the PhpBB that allows custom coding), you can take the chatbox coding from Admin Panel > Display > Portal > mod_chatbox and copy-paste it into, say, the footer coding. This was done on a site for which I'm one of the administrators, and it worked great.
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Post by WeezyFBaby October 1st 2011, 7:42 pm

Ok Thanks for the advice and help, Smile
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Post by devinjones October 1st 2011, 9:19 pm

ok there is a way to get the chat box on all pages just do this in administration panel general>announcements i forget the code you add to it but its here on the forums i would have the code but when i go to my announcements now it just shows the chatbox not the codebut if you do get the code you have to disable scrolling
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Post by LGforum October 2nd 2011, 12:16 am

Thing is; ALL of these methods above are not very good methods as it means the chatbox will even show up to guests and well... that just looks messy Wink

And i definitely wouldn't stick the chatbox in announcement.
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Post by SLGray October 2nd 2011, 12:23 am

My method would not allow guests to see the chatbox.


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Post by Legolover-361 October 2nd 2011, 12:28 am

LGforum wrote:Thing is; ALL of these methods above are not very good methods as it means the chatbox will even show up to guests and well... that just looks messy Wink

That's really only an opinion. I'm one of the lead admins for a forum with a chatbox that appears on every page (the coding is in the footer template), and the forum looks great.

Another thing -- when guests view the forum, they will see a box that says something along the lines of, "Guests cannot view the chatbox!" not the chatbox itself. Seeing a forum with a chatbox could incite more would-be-users into joining.

But like I said, this is all opinion. My suggestion, WeezyFBaby, is to try out a few different methods to see what works best and get feedback on all options.
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Post by LGforum October 2nd 2011, 12:34 am

slg wrote:My method would not allow guests to see the chatbox.

No but it doesn't do what the original poster wanted, put the chat in all pages Wink


@legolover, yup fair enough, just an opinion.
And i thought when guests see the chatbox, it is still a big box but says something like 'you need to be connected to log in' something like that.
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Post by SLGray October 2nd 2011, 12:36 am

I do not have the chatbox on every page. I just open a new window from the homepage.
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Post by LGforum October 2nd 2011, 12:39 am

I know lol. Thats what im saying. The OP wants it on every page.
Not to open it.
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Post by SLGray October 2nd 2011, 12:58 am

If members are chatting in the chatbox why would they want to go to another forum page. To me it would be easier to have two windows open: one for chatting and one for navigating the forum.


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Post by LGforum October 2nd 2011, 1:02 am

Thats the point lol. The OP wants the chatbox to appear on EVERY page... therefore they DONT have to go to another page. Its right there on the page. That would be easiest.

On my forum it shows up on every page and its readily availablre at the bottom of the screen, ready to pop up. Making chatting very easy.
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Post by ToTheFuture October 2nd 2011, 2:23 am

There is also a "Who is online" module! Stop arguing lol.
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Post by Jophy October 2nd 2011, 3:15 am

WeezyFBaby wrote:Ok Thanks for the advice and help, Smile
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