User info on top

[iPrank]

Is it possible set preferences to display user info on top of each post like CG ?

[penagate]

Nope, it's a forum-wide admin setting ("Use Legacy Postbit template").

[iPrank]

Some vB forum lets the member choose from the 2 display styles. Can this be applied in VBF Without any big hack ?

Userinfo on left wastes lots of screen space for low-resosution users, specially in CODEs and large images.

[penagate]

It can be done using a separate (user-selectable) style, which would require no code modifications. Either that, or a profile option and a two line code addition. Freddie Bingham (Jelsoft staff) explains the second method here. A style seems easier to me.

[iPrank]

Thanks.

[iPrank]

Missed post#5 while typing. What is 'Postbit' ?

[penagate]

The Postbit template dictates the layout for each post in a thread (and can be used for other pages where full posts might be displayed). The thread template includes the postbit template, for each post that appears.

[NoteMe]

You can do this by changing the style sheet your self. But then you need to be running Fx1.5 or later...


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[penagate]

I don't believe you can, it's a table.

[brad jones]

Correct -- it is a table, so style changes are most likely not going to do it for you.


When we rolled this site to the newer versions of the software, the popular request was to put the info to the side so that less scrolling would be done.

We don't really want to create additional style sheets to have to maintain.

Brad

[NoteMe]

Ohhh...sorry, I forgot a moment there that there is still people that use tables for layout..


Then Penegate and Brad is saying the truth..


PS: I think it was me who convinced Brad to have it on the left.....blame it on me... And then buy a bigger screen....

[brad jones]

yeah, use the forum as an excuse to get a bigger screen with higher resolution! Or get a second screen and use two (which is what I do on my primary system).

On a more serious note....

I took a look at the styles. I don't see an easy way to set up doing both the side view and the top view for user info. There is a global setting that is beyond the style sheets that controls that part of the display and determines what style sheets are called. If the makers of the forum software had dropped that value down to the style sheet level, then it would have been a simple 'flipping of a switch'.... but I don't see that they did this.

As such, this could obviously be done from a technical perspective, but it would take quite a bit of work from what I see in my preliminary look. If someone knows how to easily set the legacybit value within vBulletin at the style level, then let me know!

Brad!

[penagate]

OK, I did test this and it works.

Add a new style with the parent style as the current one. Go into Edit Templates for the new style, find Postbit Templates. Find "postbit", go into Customize and copy the code. Paste it into "postbit_legacy" and save that. Then make the new style user selectable. Since the forum uses the postbit_legacy template, the new code will override the layout just for that style.

[iPrank]

Can it be done in client-end by using a user style-sheet (for Opera) or an Fx extension ?

[iPrank]

Pena ? Brad ?

[penagate]

Obviously I can't speak for Brad but as mentioned in posts 9 and 10 a user stylesheet won't do the trick as it is a table (thus fixed layout).

[iPrank]

Oh. Thanks anyway.

[brad jones]

I received the images. Thanks. To do this at this time would require serious logic to be placed into the templates. It would also cause issues with future upgrades to make such logic changes. As such, I don't see this happening right now.

Sorry,

Brad!

[iPrank]

Thanks for your reply.
I didn't realise it will be hard to impliment. Sorry.

I hope I'll be able to buy a bigger screen soon.