Moving the Chatbox

Hello to you all,
Ok so there is probably an answer here for this question but I searched for it for 3 hours now and couldn't find anything.

Is there a way to move the Homepage chatbox to another page, HTML coded or any other page?

The problem is I want only some of my members to have that chatbox and I don't want any guest to see it.
So I wanted to create a page only for these members and put the chatbox there.

If you have any answer or suggestion for this please post it here,
thank you.

Guests, by the way cannot see whats typed in the chatbox.

ok so that is part of the question.
thank you, but what about moving the chatbox?

Modules>Chatbox>Configuration
ChatBox display :Do not display.

That will just provide a link at the bottom of the forum to Join the chat.

yeah I know but I don't want all my members to enter the chat...
I want just few... from a group to be able to see the link and enter...

Can it be done?

Nopes. Thats not possible to do.

wanna get pwned sanket?

You can can paste your chatbox anywhere you want.
A simple iframe does the trick.

You can paste this on any forum ... any website even outside of your forum.

Code:

<iframe src="/chatbox/chatbox.forum" width="810px" height="300" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe>
<br>

that code you can use if its a forumotion forum.
if you want it on another site you have to add the direct url:

Code:

<iframe src="http://url of your forumotion forum/chatbox/chatbox.forum" width="810px" height="300" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe>


where ever you put the above code the chatbox from your forum will appear.

Another trick I learned is that you can use portals to hide stuff from members.
So if you want to create a chatbox only for staff members... all you do is create a new portal.
change its permissions to staff only.
then paste that above code into a new module that you create on the portal.

that way you can create a private chat only for staff.

to retrieve your second portals url , you can click the preview portal button on your second portal... all you gotta do is remove the SID info from the link.
the default link to a second portal is
http://yourforumaddress.com/portal.forum?pid=2

hope that helps

Nice work around, i knew about the iframe code.

But setting it for groups was kinda confusing. But there you go, you have worked with portals more than me. Hence you know that permissions feature.

well jalokim, that helped alright...


But now there is another problem I would like you to guide me through...
Since I activated my chat everyone that looks at the who's online could see there is a chat...
Is there any way I could delete that frame even if the chat service is on?

again thank you both.


EDIT:
Ok I've managed on my own... just needed to delete something on the HTML coding of the index_body.

Thanks again for everything, both of you.
you can close this thread.