NEW UPDATE : Attachments and global announcements!

by **Shadow** March 25th 2010, 10:29 am

First topic message reminder :

NEW UPDATE : Attachments and global announcements!

Hello,

In order to continuously improve our services and to bring you the best in the world of forums, we offer you today a new update that will add two brand new features. Very Happy

Without making you wait longer, here are the contents of this update:

1. Global announcement: Indeed, in addition to the normal post,post-it and stickies, now you can make global announcements in your forum.
Unlike a normal post, the overall listing is automatically applied in all the forums in your forum in one go! A real time saver for admins Wink

As for the normal post, the wording of the overall text is customizable via the admin panel.

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This gives on your forum:

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You will find all the explanations needed on this new feature in THIS TUTORIAL!

2. Attachments: An innovative feature that allows you to attach files to messages on a topic of your forum.
The forum admin has the option to enable or disable attachments on the forum and the distribution of storage space between the attachments and gallery on the one hand, and between members and moderators of the forum on another hand.
Many extensions are supported and total management is possible directly via the admin panel, transforming the forums in real trade platforms for the happiness of its members.

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NEW UPDATE : Attachments and global announcements! - Page 2 15032010114602

On the forum, it gives:

Before sending the attached file:
After sending the attached file:

You will find all the explanations needed on this new feature in THIS TUTORIAL!

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Important:Admins with custom templates on their forums like phpBB2 or PunBB must necessarily consider the following changes on the templates

Finally, A big THANK YOU to the entire Forumotion community for all those brilliant ideas! : thumleft:

See you soon with other ideas!

Best,
Forumotion Team

by Don_FixYBoys* March 26th 2010, 1:04 am

Jalokim wrote:For those that have actually customized more than just the main tpl's Here are more fixes.

If you have edited your posting_body.tpl
the new update won't be in place.
Load the default and edit it with your customizations

Also a lot of people use the blog on their forums... so to add the attachement to your blog :

After : {postrow.displayed.MESSAGE}

in posting_body.tpl i can't find {postrow.displayed.MESSAGE}

by exterminator March 26th 2010, 3:15 am

Don_FixYBoys* wrote:
Jalokim wrote:For those that have actually customized more than just the main tpl's Here are more fixes.

If you have edited your posting_body.tpl
the new update won't be in place.
Load the default and edit it with your customizations

Also a lot of people use the blog on their forums... so to add the attachement to your blog :

After : {postrow.displayed.MESSAGE}

in posting_body.tpl i can't find {postrow.displayed.MESSAGE}

Me too. I can't find it in posting_body.tpl

And i have a question, can i attach file when i use quick reply?

by shamzblueworld March 26th 2010, 4:17 am

very nice updates forumotion. but i still think the 20mb space is a little too less.

by latinmoney March 26th 2010, 4:39 am

then one question....what happend to the avatars? Shocked

by LH Justin March 26th 2010, 4:52 am

Nice updates. Wink

by Linda2003 March 26th 2010, 5:02 am

Nice thanks .

by Guest March 26th 2010, 5:18 am

wooooooowww , thanx for these update :wouhou:

by meo786 March 26th 2010, 5:43 am

thanks, so nice

by my_liverpool_07_88 March 26th 2010, 6:23 am

I can not download files
Why?

by mohammadali March 26th 2010, 7:05 am

Hi
I'm Admin of Iran Forum
Iran Forum ( http://iran.forum.st ) is a Farsi forum and language of Admin Panel was English ( It was very good ) but from yesterday to now it's changed to Arabic!! ( and it's too bad )
This problem still continues

I would like the English language for my admin panel, Please help me

Thanks a lot
With the best wishes for you

by tomcruisesky March 26th 2010, 8:17 am

great stuff..

by kevinfrans March 26th 2010, 9:19 am

can i control the background and the font color of attachments?
my attachment's font color and background have the same color, so i can't see the name of attachment. Sad

by ImProviser March 26th 2010, 9:36 am

So I ask again, if I buy more storage space with my credits, are they going to stay forever (example 500MB), or will it get deleted after some time (maybe a month or two, as before with gallery space)

by **Shadow** March 26th 2010, 9:37 am

kevinfrans wrote:can i control the background and the font color of attachments?
my attachment's font color and background have the same color, so i can't see the name of attachment.

I've reported this to techs.

ImProviser wrote:So I ask again, if I buy more storage space with my credits, are they going to stay forever (example 500MB), or will it get deleted after some time (maybe a month or two, as before with gallery space)

It works the same way as it was working before.

by ImProviser March 26th 2010, 9:48 am

If it gets deleted shouldn't it be displayed in Misc > Spend Credits > Space

I only have options to add more space, none of them has its time period

by **Shadow** March 26th 2010, 9:51 am

When you buy space, by default it's valid for one month.
You can add more space after, when you've bought at least one month.

by Don_FixYBoys* March 26th 2010, 10:43 am

i became like this what should i do ?

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by Jalokim March 26th 2010, 11:48 am

Sorry I got mixed up in my code... Edited it to many times.

Typlo has already added the correct codes to the first topic.
sorry about that

by Jalokim March 26th 2010, 12:00 pm

To change the style of your attachment boxes here are a few CSS classes you can paste to the END OF YOUR CSS.

admin panel-> display -> colors -> css tab

go to the bottom of your css
hit enter then paste this

Code:: .attachbox { color: #fff; background-color: #000; border: 1px solid #333; } .attachbox a:link { color: #123455; } .attachbox a:hover { color: #123456;}

explaination:
.attachbox is the box surrounding the attachments

color: #fff; is the color of the font
change the hex code to pick your best color for the text

background-color: #000; - if your attachments background is the same color as the posts just add a different color to the background.

border: 1px solid #333; - you can also add a border to the box, just change the color. If you don't want a border change 1px to 0px.

Optionally you can add after the "border: 1px solid #333;" hit enter and add
margin-top: 15px; to make the space between your post and the attachment bigger.

the other to classes are for the links.
If the links are invisible on your posts you can change them:
the color class under a:link is the link color and the color a:hover is the hover color of the link

you can change the hex color code to change the colors of the links.

by **Ape** March 26th 2010, 1:02 pm

latinmoney wrote:then one question....what happend to the avatars?

The tech's have fixed this problem
Thank you Tech's :wouhou:

by M&D March 26th 2010, 3:42 pm

Jalokim wrote:To change the style of your attachment boxes here are a few CSS classes you can paste to the END OF YOUR CSS.

admin panel-> display -> colors -> css tab

go to the bottom of your css
hit enter then paste this
Code:
.attachbox { color: #fff; background-color: #000; border: 1px solid #333; } .attachbox a:link { color: #123455; } .attachbox a:hover { color: #123456;}

explaination:
.attachbox is the box surrounding the attachments

color: #fff; is the color of the font
change the hex code to pick your best color for the text

background-color: #000; - if your attachments background is the same color as the posts just add a different color to the background.

border: 1px solid #333; - you can also add a border to the box, just change the color. If you don't want a border change 1px to 0px.

Optionally you can add after the "border: 1px solid #333;" hit enter and add
margin-top: 15px; to make the space between your post and the attachment bigger.

the other to classes are for the links.
If the links are invisible on your posts you can change them:
the color class under a:link is the link color and the color a:hover is the hover color of the link

you can change the hex color code to change the colors of the links.

by matt_m March 26th 2010, 6:42 pm

I have made a suggestion in regard to attached images: https://help.forumotion.com/suggestions-for-your-forums-f30/attachment-images-t67213.htm#434304

by Kalliopi March 26th 2010, 8:18 pm

Sorry not happy with this, I am thinking of turning the flipping thing off, it's no good as it is with members having to download the file to their PC to view and today we have had our first member use it, to upload a photo, the numpty. NEW UPDATE : Attachments and global announcements! - Page 2 6yehd4

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He has sucessfully uploaded photos before using an image host. It's going to be more trouble than it is worth.
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