[YUI] Tabbed Forum Home

[ZeroHour]

[YUI] Tabbed Forum Home (TFH) version 4.0.8
vBulletin version: 4.1.11 - 4.2.0
Older versions need original mod for now

Description:
This MOD is for creating a "Tabbed" Forum Home Page to have Categories and other Data types (via Modules) displayed within Tab containers. Please do not confuse this with the Tab Menu System here at vbulletin.org. They are totally different systems. These Tabs actually switch the content via AJAX without leaving the main forums page.

This is an entirely new version of TFH and only works with vB4. Management is all done via the Admin CP.

Installation is done in 3 simple steps. Upload files, Import product, 3 easy Template Edits.

Setup is now a breeze via the Tabs option in the Admin CP.

The attached Zip File contains the Files and Instructions necessary to install.

Incompatible mods
Two columns of categories - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=275114

Upgrading to 4.0.7+ from previous versions
We have had to change the mod's id which means when you install this time you will have 2 mods, the new version with its new id and the old version.
Both can run side by side but shouldnt to save processing time.

To migrate:
Install the latest version and upload all the files (no conflicts to worry about)
Install the latest product xml
Follow the template changes in the upgrade txt
Create your tabs in the new admincp menu option "EG: Tabbed Forum Home" to mirror the existing "Tabbed Forum Home" menu.
Once done uninstall the product "Tabbed Forum Home" with productid bobster_tfh (old mod id)


Change Log:

VERSION 4.0.8 2nd August 2012
Changes:
> Fixed several database bugs
> Fixed several legacy redirect bugs
> Fixed static path problem for scripts (this should resolve some 4.0.7 blank forum issues)
> Thanks to Bluefin221 & LgsOfChampions

VERSION 4.0.7 1st August 2012
Changes:
> New Mod ID - YOU MUST MIGRATE SETTINGS MANUALLY
> vBulletin 4.1.11+ required
> JS loaded after drawing
> Remote YUI JS (partial) support
> Fixed instructions typo
> All previous fixes in 4.0.5 that caused no bugs

VERSION 4.0.5 27th April 2012
Changes:
> This version should be used with vbulletin 4.1.11+
> Compatibility with JS changes in vbulletin 4.1.11+
> Upgraded to run with YUI 2.9.0
> Local versions of files to minimise loading issues
> Upgraded to Dispatcher 2.2
> Reduced size of forumindextab generator and reduced size to boost performance
> Added a template cache call to reduce load
> Added loader animation and box when tab is clicked and loading.

Original Change Logs for bobster65 & King Kavor releases
VERSION Beta 2b 23 March 2010
Changes:
> CSS Conflict resolved

VERSION Beta 2 19 March 2010
> CSS Conflict resolved
> Upgrade to YUI 2.7.0 & Dispatcher 2.1
> Minor Bug fixes

Originally created by bobster65 & King Kovifor

[bobster65]

reserved!

[alessai]

great something i really need

the only question i have will google robots and other search engines have any problems seeing the sections ??

[RedHacker]

Any ScreenShots....?

[Skyrider]

Any ScreenShots....?
And demo please! :)

[tafreeh]

is this V2 of your previous hack :) the one that i used to check every single day for this update :) (( falling tear from eyes ))

If it is... Can you please state any new feature or its functionality please.
Thanks you

[bobster65]

great something i really need

the only question i have will google robots and other search engines have any problems seeing the sections ??

Its search engine unobtrusive.

Any ScreenShots....?

ya, I needed a few minutes to add them.. they are up now.

And demo please! :)

Im still running 3.8, so no live demo from me. I'll put one up when someone allows me to link to their site.

is this V2 of your previous hack :) the one that i used to check every single day for this update :) (( falling tear from eyes ))

If it is... Can you please state any new feature or its functionality please.
Thanks you

if you read the description above.. This is an entirely new version of TFH and only works with vB4. Management is all done via the Admin CP.

Basically, all the Setup and Management is done via the backend. Also, it now includes Modules for other data types like Blogs, Albums, PTs etc...

[tafreeh]

ok i m installing it right now, and let you know the the outcomes.

[tafreeh]

hey there...

i m just confused for Forumhome Template edit 2

This is what i have
<!-- main -->
{vb:raw template_hook.forumhome_above_forums}
<ol id="forums" class="floatcontainer">
{vb:raw forumbits}
</ol>
{vb:raw template_hook.forumhome_below_forums}
<!-- /main -->

and the instruction you provided for custom
<!-- main --> through <!-- /main -->
code was, quiet confusing for me...

as i have custom code, do you want me to leave forumhome as it is, and edit forumhometab... with what custom code?

i m sorry man... i just didnt get it well... can you help me out here..
thanks

[bobster65]

hey there...

i m just confused for Forumhome Template edit 2

This is what i have
<!-- main -->
{vb:raw template_hook.forumhome_above_forums}
<ol id="forums" class="floatcontainer">
{vb:raw forumbits}
</ol>
{vb:raw template_hook.forumhome_below_forums}
<!-- /main -->

and the instruction you provided for custom
<!-- main --> through <!-- /main -->
code was, quiet confusing for me...

as i have custom code, do you want me to leave forumhome as it is, and edit forumhometab... with what custom code?

i m sorry man... i just didnt get it well... can you help me out here..
thanks

you have default vB4 MAIN code, so all you need to do is replace the FORMHOME Template Main code with the MAIN Code that I included. then leave the FORUMHOMETAB Template alone.

[tafreeh]

OMG i thought through was part of the code :D hahahaha
feeling so stupid now.. can i change my post.. lol

btw..

It works like a charm :)
the only thing i need to work on is change the style of TABS..
Great work :)
Nominated :)

[RedHacker]

Installed 4.0.1
Thanks...

[bobster65]

OMG i thought through was part of the code :D hahahaha
feeling so stupid now.. can i change my post.. lol

btw..

It works like a charm :)
the only thing i need to work on is change the style of TABS..
Great work :)
Nominated :)

lol.. point taken, I'll rewrite that part as it IS a little confusing now that I look at it again. Also, the addition of the two template hooks which can be either placed inside the tab contrainer or outside..

[tafreeh]

yea.. i was just thinking about those two kicked out template hooks.. maybe i m gonna need them for some other hack...
btw...

Tab Container :confused::confused::confused:

[bobster65]

yea.. i was just thinking about those two kicked out template hooks.. maybe i m gonna need them for some other hack...
btw...

Tab Container :confused::confused::confused:

The hooks are still there, they are placed OUTSIDE of the Tab Container tho, meaning that when you switch tabs, it doesn't effect the hooks. You CAN however move them INSIDE the Tab Container if you wish. Thats all I was saying..

[Zaiaku]

I don't need this for my site but its a wonderful mod!

[tafreeh]

ok i got it know...

Question:
Is it gonna affect on SEO ?

[Itworx4me]

Thanks Bobster....One more piece and I will be able to update my forums to 4.0.1...Waiting for vbadvanced...

Thanks,
Itworx4me

[bobster65]

ok i got it know...

Question:
Is it gonna affect on SEO ?

Shouldn't, its fully search engine unobtrusive. I've had no issues with it and I've been running it for a few years now (The YUI Version)

[VonDoom]

Very Cool. I have just installed it to showcase. this forum is simply for demo purposes anyways so feel free to link it to Demo your product http://www.vb4m.com/forums/

[tafreeh]

Shouldn't, its fully search engine unobtrusive. I've had no issues with it and I've been running it for a few years now (The YUI Version)

hmm ok.. i will get vbseo staff to look into it further..

btw.. i just checked post #20 with the demo link.. and it seems to work pretty fast...
mine produce at least 5 second of delay .... why is that?

[ndut]

coolll

[Nordinho]

Im still running 3.8, so no live demo from me. I'll put one up when someone allows me to link to their site.


Looking very nice!

Will you release a 3.8 version as well? Could use that ;)

[bobster65]

Looking very nice!

Will you release a 3.8 version as well? Could use that ;)

Yes, I will also release a new version for 3.8. Probably won't be for another few days tho.

[Nordinho]

Yes, I will also release a new version for 3.8. Probably won't be for another few days tho.

Thanks! Appreciate that!

[McCarroll21]

Installed. Not sure how it will go over with my board. We've done a good job in the past of not having a lot of forums so it didn't clutter up the place. This will give us more flexibility there, but right now it just makes it look bare. lol

[linuxututs]

Install and working perfectly.
Also like to report that this does not conflict with Sorky's sub-forum manager (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=233084) either.:)

This is GREAT.

Thanks,

[TeknoSounds]

Is there any way for this to apply forum permissions as well?

Like I have several hidden forums, but restricted to different usergroups, but I want to put them all in one tab.

[sinucello]

Hi,

sounds great. One question as I don`t have installed 4.1 yet: will the active tab be remembered if you leave the forum home and return to it e. g. with the back button of the browser?

all the best,
Sacha

[Gnoll]

Tagged , localhost time ^^

[GrossKopf]

I installed this, but when it was done and I created my first tab, my forum homepage only showed the tab in the closed position. You have to click on the tab to open it up. I'd like it so that first tab is opened by default. I can't use it in it's current state.

[PinoyRepublic]

thanks! atlast my long forum is gone :))

any suggestion on how i can make the "li" to "div"? just like the previous version?

http://www.pinoyrepublic.org

[Froggfish]

will there be a version that works in the CMS to?

[ManagerJosh]

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooo found a small bug. Appears that when you have the forum sidebar suppressed, it doesn't reformat the forumhome layout and keeps it crunched up like the forumbar is being displayed even though it has been suppressed.

[Kolbi]

Does this hack need much ressources? How many queries does it produce for example?

Is there any SEO disadvantage?

[andreamarucci]

Installed in my test forum to test it. Wonderful job!

[Adam H]

I figured it out of the 3.8 version but what part do we edit to make the tabs actually sit on top of the forums instead of having a gap between them ?

I can see it will be either the tabview.css or the skin-tfh.css but cant see what part does it ?

[silverfox_uw]

works like a treat, but i have found another bug.

if you set a tab up for s specific usergroup, it only shows the tab to the primary users of that tab and not the additional users to that group

[Merjawy]

I am not seeing anything

new installed on test site with default style nothing added

There is an error message on stats bar with the second edit of FORUMHOME (! Error on page)

I see the different tabs but no forums showing at all, not even with the built in All Forums tab

I only have 1 hiden and 1 visible categories/forums (the default install)

I double checked all the template edit

[ManagerJosh]

Did you remember to set the default tab? It works here quite well.

[Merjawy]

Yep.. done that.. removed, installed over... went over the templates many times

The Tabs show up but nothing, no forums displayed

[ManagerJosh]

It works here.. I'm telling you that much.

http://uoem.com/forums


Part of me wonders if ya forgot to change to the right style set :p




@Bobster :D! YAY! Small request: Anyway to do a partial cache of all the tab listings itself? Or someway to speed up the listing of the forums? I'm not so much worried about the ever-changing data like who posted, but the list of forums is pretty consistent and it might be good to minimize the delay response :)

[Merjawy]

nah.. I am not as dumb as I look.. I am much dummer lol

looks good on your site and no error either
for some reason the second edit of FORUMHOME is causing an error to be dsiplayed on stats line at the buttom and I am thinking that might just be the issue

main ---> /main

I made sure I did it right though

EDIT: Looks like I done everything right as it works fine on Firefox, but not on IE8 (though I was able to see it fine with IE8 on your site)

[PinoyRepublic]

Disregard my previous post. I already managed to replace li to div.

Thanks!

EDIT:

Is it possible to trigger(emulate click) all the buttons at startup so that all the forums are loaded? Some users think that when they click the tab its empty or nothing happens. Like your non-javascipt version Tabbed Forum Home version 1.01

[stuky4ever]

Im having an issue. I add a Tab and shows its completion and when I try to add the second tab it shows a blank Box and returns to the Tab Panel. Anyone else having this issue?

[Sador]

Hmm, I think I remember this mod from 3.8, never got it to work quite well.

[Merjawy]

I gave up and went to bed, this morning it was working fine in IE8 lol

Thanks for the mod

[taffy056]

This is a great mod, been waiting to install this with baited breathe :)

Thanks!

[taffy056]

got strange problem, the make this default tab has disappeared , and cannot make another tab default unless I make a new one, also once its made default I can't edit it as it says its not allowed.

[bobster65]

Please report any "bugs" here: http://www.smnlikdat.org/project.php?projectid=2 Specify that the bug is for version 4.0.0 Beta 1 Thank you.

for those that want faster loading, set cache to YES.

Also, for permissions, check to make sure that the last option on Settings >> Options >> Forums Home Page Options >> Check Usergroup is set to YES

[MOGmartin]

sorry, not working on my board with vbseo installed,

cheers!

[silverfox_uw]

Please report any "bugs" here: http://www.smnlikdat.org/project.php?projectid=2 Specify that the bug is for version 4.0.0 Beta 1 Thank you.

for those that want faster loading, set cache to YES.

Also, for permissions, check to make sure that the last option on Settings >> Options >> Forums Home Page Options >> Check Usergroup is set to YES

mine is set to yes, however, still have the same issue with the additional usergroup

[Hornstar]

This version looks so much better and I am impressed at how soon you got it out! Thanks a lot for it.

[Merjawy]

Editing the css file didn't change colors for me..

[Merjawy]

Ignore that.. cache issue I guess.. all is fine now

[angeljs]

I absolutely love this, thank you! :)

[ps2wiz]

sorry, not working on my board with vbseo installed,

cheers!

Really? I have a vBSEO license and will be installing it soon. I really like this mod and hope that it can somehow work with it?

[Crrrazzzy]

how can i get the tabs to show subforums?

[GrossKopf]

How do you change the colors of the tabs?

[jonty]

Works nicely. However - the expaned/collapse of blocks doesn't show properly now (still works, but only ever shows the 'collapse' icon.

[jonty]

How do you change the colors of the tabs?

Styles are in the skin-tfh.css file (/clientscript/yui/tabview/assets) :up:

[kisanjong]

Great mod - installed - 5* - Thanks

[ps2wiz]

How exactly do I use the varname to create a link to the tab? Could someone please give me an example?

Thanks in advance.

[Leo Brazil]

Two questions:

How it deals with sub-forums ? Considering I have 3-4 levels of child forums. Will it show up sub-forums just like standard ?

If I select 'All Forums', does it show Forumhome just like standard looking ?

Thanks

[jonty]

If I change templates, the old forum icons remain.
Also - i can no longer double-click the forum icon to mark it as read. (and when you hover over the forum icon, it no longer says "double click to mark this forum as read). :confused:

I know you want bug reports to the other forum, but I havent had a chance to sign up for it. :cool:

[ps2wiz]

What are your thoughts regarding this mod and the negative impact on SEO?

http://www.vbseo.com/f4/please-inspect-hack-seo-40515/

Is this true?

[choitz]

Awesome!!!

[tafreeh]

I just need to know how to change style of tabs.
for those who can not make it work with vbseo, i m using vb4.0.1 and vbseo 3.5 rc1 .. and it works perfectly fine...
and as far as seo ranking concern, i would suggest, use this hack for Logged in users only... so it will not do anything to your Seo Ranking.

Cheers

[Sarcoth]

mine is set to yes, however, still have the same issue with the additional usergroup

Same for me. The additional members of a usergroup do not see the tabs, only primary members. Awesome mod though. I got it all working. The only bad part was that I couldn't update the forumhome_forumbit_level1_post with the Template Modification Manager. It kept erroring out so I had to do that template manually. Oh well.

[valendono]

and as far as seo ranking concern, i would suggest, use this hack for Logged in users only... so it will not do anything to your Seo Ranking.

Cheers

U know what.. i tested it.. its concern with ur seo ranking though.. because try to view source its no source to find ur forum sub or title.. because its ajax..

[ManagerJosh]

What are your thoughts regarding this mod and the negative impact on SEO?

http://www.vbseo.com/f4/please-inspect-hack-seo-40515/

Is this true?

I personally have no problems with it. I modified the original hack so it would ignore Search Engines

[RedHacker]

Problem with sidebar blocks icon now worked with this modification

[tafreeh]

i meant to say, use this hack for registered users only, so bots cant see the changes...
leave the default setting for unregistered and bots..

therefore it will only change the source code for registered users only, bots will have nothing to do with this hack..
U know what.. i tested it.. its concern with ur seo ranking though.. because try to view source its no source to find ur forum sub or title.. because its ajax..

[Hoffi]

Waited for! Thanks!

[DjEddie]

Okay .. this works perfectly on firefox for me .. :)

But on IE .. the "whats going on box" doesn't move .. it stays so far down from the tabs .. which makes the 1st tab look ok .. but when u click on other tabs ..the "whats going on box" doesnt move down to make room .. the foums show underneath the box ..

And altho i have permissions set for all groups to see the tabs .. when being a guest .. it shows the tabs but not what the tabs contain properly..

But like i say works perfectly in Firefox ..



edit ish: mite be stupid mistake lol but had the sidebar turned off ..once enabled ..in IE the tabs loaded perfectly .. only thing now is the side bar when closed doesn't expand the forum to fill where the sidebar was.... not sure if this is due to this mod or due to the custom skin ... any ideas?

[CFodder]

Install and is working well, however, when I set up certain forums to show in the tabs (entered the forumid's in the Forum section) it just still show's all the forums in all of the tabs. Anyone have any ideas on this?

And yeah, as someone asked previously, would be cool if could have tabs on the CMS page too :).

[sinucello]

Hi,
sounds great. One question as I don`t have installed 4.1 yet: will the active tab be remembered if you leave the forum home and return to it e. g. with the back button of the browser?to answer the question myself:
no, it will not remember the tab. Meanwhile I found out that ajax-history can be done. Here`s an example with jquery tabs:
http://flowplayer.org/tools/demos/tabs/ajax-history.html
select a tab, click on one of the links in the right nav, click the browsers back button and your tab will still be selected. This is done with the jquery history plugin:
http://plugins.jquery.com/project/history
Something similar exists for the yui framework:
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/history/
They even have an example on how to use this with a tab navigation:
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/history/history-tabview.html

I`ve only very few experience with Ajax so I`d be glad if this could be implemented.

thanks - all the best,
Sacha

[Alecsmith]

Reserved for Future :)

[bobster65]

Okay .. this works perfectly on firefox for me .. :)

But on IE .. the "whats going on box" doesn't move .. it stays so far down from the tabs .. which makes the 1st tab look ok .. but when u click on other tabs ..the "whats going on box" doesnt move down to make room .. the foums show underneath the box ..

And altho i have permissions set for all groups to see the tabs .. when being a guest .. it shows the tabs but not what the tabs contain properly..

But like i say works perfectly in Firefox ..



edit ish: mite be stupid mistake lol but had the sidebar turned off ..once enabled ..in IE the tabs loaded perfectly .. only thing now is the side bar when closed doesn't expand the forum to fill where the sidebar was.... not sure if this is due to this mod or due to the custom skin ... any ideas?

What version of IE?

As far as the side bar goes, I've had some glitches with mine as well and have it logged as a bug. Will be looking into it. It could be on my end.. not sure yet.

[DjEddie]

hey bobster .... IE 7.06

feel free to check and ill keep checking this topic for a fix on the sidebar, if its your side... ill also check with the skin developer ..

http://www.ibass-radio.com/radio1/forum.php

thanks :)

[pjdaley]

it seems the All Forums module works but setting up a new tab doesent show any forums under that tab? i have put the id's i want to show and it creates the tab but no forums are displayed


^^ never mind i figured this out :)

[Sador]

I've been testing this, and everything seems to works like a charm. However, for some reason I can't set anything to default.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

Any idea why? Am I doing something wrong, or?

[pjdaley]

I've been testing this, and everything seems to works like a charm. However, for some reason I can't set anything to default.

http://www.tiswah.com/forum/uploaded/1/default.jpg

Any idea why? Am I doing something wrong, or?


You cant make a tab default unless it is not limited to a group :)

[Sador]

Ah, didn't read that anywhere. Thanks for the help. :)

[Sador]

I've been thinking about this a bit, and if using this mod works negatively for your SEO rank, wouldn't it be better to enable this only for registered users, so guests can see the whole forum like it is without this mod, while everybody who's logged in can see it with tabs?

That would require some editing or 2 different sets of permissions (guests always seeing full forum and the current permissions for users), but wouldn't it be better that way?

Or doesn't it matter what way guests (and bots) see the forum?

[bobster65]

I've been thinking about this a bit, and if using this mod works negatively for your SEO rank, wouldn't it be better to enable this only for registered users, so guests can see the whole forum like it is without this mod, while everybody who's logged in can see it with tabs?

That would require some editing or 2 different sets of permissions (guests always seeing full forum and the current permissions for users), but wouldn't it be better that way?

Or doesn't it matter what way guests (and bots) see the forum?

That is something that is currently being looked into... :up:

[Sador]

Ah nice, okay. :)

[CFodder]

... ^^ never mind i figured this out :)

How'd you fix it?

[Beor]

Hello

Thanks for the plugin, but i have a problem

Only view in tab the categories with sub-forums, dont have possibilty for use only forums?

Cu

[bobster65]

Hello

Thanks for the plugin, but i have a problem

Only view in tab the categories with sub-forums, dont have possibilty for use only forums?


Cu

Not yet. This is designed to break out forumhome which is driven off Categories. I am working on something that will be a little different that will allow individual forums to be placed within the tabs. It's a ways out tho..

[ps2wiz]

I wish someone would answer my question.


How exactly do I use the varname to create a link to the tab? Could someone please give me an example?

Thanks in advance.

[Trek]

Hey there, first I'd like to say thank you, this is a pretty sweet mod!

BUT... I can't use it currently.

I installed and, edited the templates, all that was fine.

However, the problem I found is that it seems to only work if the category is 1 level deep. Basically, sub-categories don't seem to work. The majority of my forums are categories in categories and none of those I set actually worked.

Anything that was a root level category worked fine however.

I had to uninstall for now as none of my forums would show, but I'd love to use the mod. Please let me know if you are interested in having me test something for you, etc. Hopefully you can tweak it to work. =)

Thanks again!

[merk_aus]

Hey mate,
I asked this on your 3.8 version and never got it working but was hoping you could help me - I am looking at installing this however would like to have like my announcement category appear on the site at all times so it goes kinda like:

Announcement Category - always showing

Tabbed Forum Home TABS - for visitors to tab through

Admin Category - always showing for admins

Are you able to provide me with the code or tell me what to do to get it set up like this? (Remember I am not a coding expert just a newbie)

[bobster65]

How exactly do I use the varname to create a link to the tab? Could someone please give me an example?

Thanks in advance.

http://www.domainname.ext/forum/forum.php?varname=vbb

where vbb is the VarName that you entered for the specific tab

[RedHacker]

Problem with sidebar blocks icon now worked with this modification

Nothing for this...?

[bobster65]

Nothing for this...?

have not had time yet. Its on the "bug" list tho ...

[Bellinis]

Hi,
to answer the question myself:
no, it will not remember the tab. Meanwhile I found out that ajax-history can be done. Here`s an example with jquery tabs:
http://flowplayer.org/tools/demos/tabs/ajax-history.html
select a tab, click on one of the links in the right nav, click the browsers back button and your tab will still be selected.


If the 'tab-remembering' would work, I'd definately install this mod!
Hopefully this will be added later this year. :)

Thanks and keep up the good work!

[Trek]

Bobster65,

Any idea about my post here? https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1964865&postcount=92

I'd like to use your mod. =)

[bobster65]

Bobster65,

Any idea about my post here? https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1964865&postcount=92

I'd like to use your mod. =)

so you tried those secondary Cat ID's and they didn't work? I'd have to set up a test forum just like yours in order to see what the deal is.

[zbosskiller]

Anyway of applying code to show a 'New' image within the tab when a new post is posted?

Anyone know how to do this?

[SpaceStar]

I like it. Will definately install it when the final production forum is installed. Right now I am testing... good work.

[kingMOB]

Hi bobster65, thanks for the mod.

Now, is there a way to use it inside the CMS? Let's say I want to open some sections and/or categories using the same method as your mod. Could I just, for example, edit the vbcms_content_section_page template and insert the tabs there with it referring to sections?

[Trek]

so you tried those secondary Cat ID's and they didn't work? I'd have to set up a test forum just like yours in order to see what the deal is.

Yeah, exactly.

Basically you'd need to set it up something like this


Cat 1
|- Forum 1
|- Forum 2

|-Cat 2
|- Forum 3
|- Forum 4
|-Cat 3
|- Forum 5
|- Forum 6
If you select Cat 1, Forum 1 and 2 will appear.

If you select Cat2 or Cat 3, you get nothing.

[merk_aus]

Hey mate,
I asked this on your 3.8 version and never got it working but was hoping you could help me - I am looking at installing this however would like to have like my announcement category appear on the site at all times so it goes kinda like:

Announcement Category - always showing

Tabbed Forum Home TABS - for visitors to tab through

Admin Category - always showing for admins

Are you able to provide me with the code or tell me what to do to get it set up like this? (Remember I am not a coding expert just a newbie)

Anyone able to help with this?

[vexvegaz]

great job!!! works like a charm.

thank you!

[BBR-APBT]

I think I will hold off for a more search engine friendly tab forum home script.

I had this tagged for a while in hopes that things would change a little.

While this mod works great, I dis-approve of the SEO unfriendliness. Some of us work hard to achieve good seo rankings. I would also like the site to look almost 100% the same between guest and members.

Don't get me wrong here this is a great mod, it is just not for me.

[ManagerJosh]

I think I will hold off for a more search engine friendly tab forum home script.

I had this tagged for a while in hopes that things would change a little.

While this mod works great, I dis-approve of the SEO unfriendliness. Some of us work hard to achieve good seo rankings. I would also like the site to look almost 100% the same between guest and members.


Don't get me wrong here this is a great mod, it is just not for me.
Check out my site then. It's SEO Friendly and it uses this mod :p http://uoem.com/forums

Disable cookies, and set your user-agent to google :)

[BBR-APBT]

Check out my site then. It's SEO Friendly and it uses this mod :p http://uoem.com/forums

Disable cookies, and set your user-agent to google :)

Google is not the only search engine. I plan to mimic the one vBulletin uses for my site.

[ManagerJosh]

Google is not the only search engine. I plan to mimic the one vBulletin uses for my site.
All the ones vBulletin recognize is what I've so far got working.

[pjdaley]

I would like to know how you made it show like that for google

[RedHacker]

Can add Tab for CMS Comments....?

[bobster65]

Can add Tab for CMS Comments....?

Can you explain a little more? I've got a few idea's in mind for Content Modules that pull data from the CMS. haven't really "dug" into the CMS yet, but should be easy to pull article and comment data.

btw, anyone can write content modules for this, they don't need my permission. Modules can be written in xml, php or html..

I'll be adding a couple updated/new "blog" modules this weekend.

[Hoffi]

I think I will hold off for a more search engine friendly tab forum home script.

I had this tagged for a while in hopes that things would change a little.

While this mod works great, I dis-approve of the SEO unfriendliness. Some of us work hard to achieve good seo rankings. I would also like the site to look almost 100% the same between guest and members.


Don't get me wrong here this is a great mod, it is just not for me.

Just take a look here:

http://www.domainname.ext/forum/forum.php?varname=vbb

where vbb is the VarName that you entered for the specific tab

The way, I plan to use this, is to install this Mod and arrange the Tabs.
Then I suppress the Tab-Iamges and add Links in the vB Tab Bar with this syntax.
At the Last, I give vBSEO CRR's that rewrite the Tab-Links into nice URL's.
So the robots cann access the Pages seperately and can indem them with a nice and speaking URL.

[JWL]

Cannot seem to get a Forum to show up, only the Catagory shows and all the Forums under it.

How do I get a single Forum to display the Threads in a single Tab

[Trek]

Cannot seem to get a Forum to show up, only the Catagory shows and all the Forums under it.

How do I get a single Forum to display the Threads in a single Tab

You can't, this only works with forum categories at the moment.

[JWL]

You can't, this only works with forum categories at the moment.

Ya just found all that out, Uninstalled for now, I cannot see the value unless I can separate forums for each tab

And for SEO, I believe the person here nailed the How Too Hoffi Post 113 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1968812&postcount=113)

[kimigon75]

I like to have the modules for albums

album.php

[bobster65]

Cannot seem to get a Forum to show up, only the Catagory shows and all the Forums under it.

How do I get a single Forum to display the Threads in a single Tab

This is designed to breakout FORUMHOME which is broke out by Categories.

If you want a Tab (or multiple tabs) to display Threads from one of more specific forums , then you can use the Recent Threads Module(s) which I will be releasing soon.

You can do pretty much anything you want with the MODULES portion of this modification.

[bobster65]

I like to have the modules for albums

album.php

That is one of many modules under development. Blogs, Articles, Links, Albums, Social Groups etc.. I plan on making my own generic versions and hopefully others will realize the ability of MODULES and release their own custom version to the community.

[malluland]

Can you add a tab under a tab

Like a tab and the forums which is inside that tab and a tab under those forums like a seperate category tab

How can i do that?

[bobster65]

Can you add a tab under a tab

Like a tab and the forums which is inside that tab and a tab under those forums like a seperate category tab

How can i do that?

The only way to do that with this would be to use the MODULE portion of this. Write a custom php file that has the ability to do what you are wanting and add it as a module.

[kimigon75]

That is one of many modules under development. Blogs, Articles, Links, Albums, Social Groups etc.. I plan on making my own generic versions and hopefully others will realize the ability of MODULES and release their own custom version to the community.

await the publication

[EquinoxWorld]

any ideas what style-vars control the background of the tab buttons? Much appreciate the feedback

[merk_aus]

As stated three times in this thread it is the .css file you uploaded to the includes it finishes in -tfh.css or something and that is just from memory from what I have read in this thread - i think it was page 3 or 4 that was answered.

Still hoping bob can help me with my issue :D

[johncosta71292]

Im having problems displaying the categories any help pleasE?

[merk_aus]

make sure it is the "parent" category.

If you have:-
Main Category
- Website Announcements
- Feedback
- Introductions

Then you put the number for Main Category - you can not have just website announcements showing you need the entire category.

[bobster65]

Hey Brendon (Merk), doing what you've been asking about with vb4 is going to be a little difficult (I think). I do have a theory in mind, but its just that.. a theory until I test it out. I'll let you know how it goes and what it will take to pull it off.

[johncosta71292]

make sure it is the "parent" category.

If you have:-
Main Category
- Website Announcements
- Feedback
- Introductions

Then you put the number for Main Category - you can not have just website announcements showing you need the entire category.

yes i have done that and i tried to pu 1, and on the other tab 3 just to see if they are displayin proporly but only the catero for 1 would show and the tab 2 wouldn show category 3.

i have 6 caterogies could you help me a little with that?

[SmartMania]

Nice Mod:up:

I would like to tell me if i can do something with my tabs.

I 've made 15 tabs and i would like to separate them in different rows
For example i would like to have 5 in first row, 5 in second and 10 in third

I also would like to align tabs to the center of my forum instead to the left that is now.

[nci]

My forum uses a sidebar,each time I edit the forum home( Puting in the template edit),the forum listing page totally vanish,leaving only the header ,the sidebar and the lower part (Whats going on till the footer).
What am I doing wrong?.I have never edited my forum home.

[zeroality]

Nice mod, but would it be possible to let users set which tab they want to load as default? Maybe you can do it via cookie so it doesn't require a database table?

[Sador]

My forum uses a sidebar,each time I edit the forum home( Puting in the template edit),the forum listing page totally vanish,leaving only the header ,the sidebar and the lower part (Whats going on till the footer).
What am I doing wrong?.I have never edited my forum home.That's about the idea of this mod.....

After the edits, you need to create tabs to show the forums, so you can watch the forum in tabs instead of the whole forum at once.

[murekhalir]

sexy stufff.

[nci]

That's about the idea of this mod.....

After the edits, you need to create tabs to show the forums, so you can watch the forum in tabs instead of the whole forum at once.

Thanks a lot,I got it.

[mabersoft]

Is there any possible way you can make this auto do the template edits? or a function for it.

[bobster65]

Hey mate,
I asked this on your 3.8 version and never got it working but was hoping you could help me - I am looking at installing this however would like to have like my announcement category appear on the site at all times so it goes kinda like:

Announcement Category - always showing

Tabbed Forum Home TABS - for visitors to tab through

Admin Category - always showing for admins

Are you able to provide me with the code or tell me what to do to get it set up like this? (Remember I am not a coding expert just a newbie)

I got your 3.8 site working like a charm (check it out). Still messing around with being able to pull it of with vb4. getting closer tho ;)

[bobster65]

Is there any possible way you can make this auto do the template edits? or a function for it.

Working on a decent solution for that. The thing is, some people don't want this installed on all styles. Some prefer to only have it installed on a child forum, so auto template edits would make that a mess.

[bobster65]

Nice mod, but would it be possible to let users set which tab they want to load as default? Maybe you can do it via cookie so it doesn't require a database table?

This is a possibility that we've looked into. Its on the drawing board, but isn't even close to being implemented.

[bobster65]

Nice Mod:up:

I would like to tell me if i can do something with my tabs.

I 've made 15 tabs and i would like to separate them in different rows
For example i would like to have 5 in first row, 5 in second and 10 in third

I also would like to align tabs to the center of my forum instead to the left that is now.

Its doable, but would take some serious modifications. I'll put it on the to do list of things to look into.

[AskewDread]

hey
im having a strange issue, the All forums tab isnt showing any new forums i make only the default test one... am i missing something?
and its set to not cached

[AskewDread]

actually it just decided to show it all, dont worry :)

[Sador]

Any news on the whole seo / google bot stuff in combination with this mod, by any chance?

[dangerin]

after installation i've the forum in crash with this error :

Database error in vBulletin 4.0.1:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT * FROM `tabs` WHERE `status`='1' ORDER BY `displayorder`;

MySQL Error : Table '****_***.tabs' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146
Request Date : Thursday, February 11th 2010 @ 01:18:38 PM
Error Date : Thursday, February 11th 2010 @ 01:18:39 PM
Script : http://www.****.org/forum.php
Referrer : http://www******.org/admincp/index.php?do=head
IP Address : ***.***.***.***
Username : *****
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.1.42

is also impossible to manage the tabs :

Database error in vBulletin 4.0.1:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT * FROM tabs WHERE `iden`='t';

MySQL Error : Table '****.tabs' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146
Request Date : Thursday, February 11th 2010 @ 01:22:24 PM
Error Date : Thursday, February 11th 2010 @ 01:22:24 PM
Script : http://www.***.org/admincp/tfh.php
Referrer : http://www.***.org/admincp/index.php?do=nav
IP Address : ***.***.***.***
Username : ***
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.1.42

or manage modules :

Database error in vBulletin 4.0.1:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT * FROM `tabs` WHERE `iden`='m' ORDER BY `tabid`;

MySQL Error : Table '****.tabs' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146
Request Date : Thursday, February 11th 2010 @ 01:23:29 PM
Error Date : Thursday, February 11th 2010 @ 01:23:29 PM
Script : http://www.***.org/admincp/tfh_modules.php
Referrer : http://www.****.org/admincp/index.php?do=nav
IP Address : ****.***.***.**
Username : ***
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.1.42

[dangerin]

I try also to remove the mod but is not possible .

[mabersoft]

Working on a decent solution for that. The thing is, some people don't want this installed on all styles. Some prefer to only have it installed on a child forum, so auto template edits would make that a mess.

wll you could make it so you select witch styles it gets installed on??

Also what about the SEO side? does it affect it at all.

[heywho]

ack ack ack

Did I just miss --THIS HACK DOESN'T WORK of v.4.0.1?

I hate having ADD... :eek:

I so want this to work... It is *Perfect* for my forums (http://inheritingearth.net), a Godsend.

But not working right on vB.4.0.1... right? Ughhhhh.....

Awaiting the next version... It's a thing of beauty...

[bobster65]

ack ack ack

Did I just miss --THIS HACK DOESN'T WORK of v.4.0.1?

I hate having ADD... :eek:

I so want this to work... It is *Perfect* for my forums (http://inheritingearth.net), a Godsend.

But not working right on vB.4.0.1... right? Ughhhhh.....

Awaiting the next version... It's a thing of beauty...

It works fine on 4.0.1 and was released based on 4.0.1 if anything it will have problems on version lower than 4.0.1

I just looked at your site, you have some funky template issues. First, it appears that you have two main outputs on your FORUMHOME Template. Can't tell if that is because you have it placed once on FORUMHOME and FORUMHOMETAB, but its messed up. I'd have to take a look at your template edits to see what is going on.

[NO deadliner]

Great Work !!! This one realy rocks. Keep it up

Hope next Version is with better Seo Support.

[Itworx4me]

Hello Bobster,

I have this installed on vb4 and vbacmps4. When I integrate a page with modules from vba the tab system disappears. Any idea?

Thanks,
Itworx4me

[bobster65]

Hello Bobster,

I have this installed on vb4 and vbacmps4. When I integrate a page with modules from vba the tab system disappears. Any idea?

Thanks,
Itworx4me

That I'll have to look into. I have not messed around with the new vBa yet. Might have some time this weekend to slap it on one of my dev instances and take a look. Is integration just like it was before? if so, you might try and add "indexTFH" in the "this script" part of it to see if that makes it work.

[dangerin]

why this product can not be removed?
I love this but it crash the site and it is not a good thing.
Someone help me? actually i'm obligated to deactive the mod but i'd want to not have if is impossible to be ok.
i use the vb 4.0.1 with style simpleblack and a modifie in template forumhome to have the vsachatbox.
Thanks at all

[bobster65]

why this product can not be removed?
I love this but it crash the site and it is not a good thing.
Someone help me? actually i'm obligated to deactive the mod but i'd want to not have if is impossible to be ok.
i use the vb 4.0.1 with style simpleblack and a modifie in template forumhome to have the vsachatbox.
Thanks at all

Uninstall the product, delete all the files that you uploaded and revert the 3 template edits. I just did it on my dev site 2 minutes ago.

[dangerin]

i know the intsructions but if i do this i receive the error that i post and is impossible to uninstall.
i'd really want that this product goes on my site but actually i 'm not able to do it ..
sorry for my not experience in Vb4

[bobster65]

i know the intsructions but if i do this i receive the error that i post and is impossible to uninstall.
i'd really want that this product goes on my site but actually i 'm not able to do it ..
sorry for my not experience in Vb4

When you UNINSTALL, it removes the TABS table. The error you are getting is because you uninstalled (which removes the table) and you didn't remove the files which you are trying to use and they are trying to connect to a table that has been removed. The tabs table is only for this mod, its not used by anything else.

If you clicked on UNINSTALLED, the only way to get the Table back is to import the product XML again.

[dangerin]

if i've understodd to remove the product i must reimport the xml file?
if is correct i've done yet this procedure..
How mus i remove the fies taht you are indicating ? i muest go in the root by ftp and manually remove every file updated ? it appear just a little difficult . .

[bobster65]

if i've understodd to remove the product i must reimport the xml file?
if is correct i've done yet this procedure..
How mus i remove the fies taht you are indicating ? i muest go in the root by ftp and manually remove every file updated ? it appear just a little difficult . .

Like I said in my previous post. to UNINSTALL, you click on the UNINSTALL from the Products Manager. You already did that as the TABLE has been removed. So now what you need to do is remove ALL the files that were uploaded (the names of the files and directories they are located in are in the zip file for reference). Then revert the 3 template edits you made. This is how all mods are removed.

There isn't anything different about uninstalling this than how any other mod on this site is removed. 3 Simple steps.. Uninstall Product, remove uploaded files, revert template edits.

[dangerin]

ok thank you.. is the first time for me to unistall a product in this mode because other times i've inly clicked uninstall and all was ok.
But now i've done that you said and it's all blocked how before.
I'd not modified the templates so i've uninstalled and removed files form folders where i'd uploaded firstly.
i think to have done all that you said but without result..
and after i'd love to have this mod in my forum and is not possible to have itexcuse me but i'm new in vb and i must know a lot of things

[Universal]

I have found a problem when I am using either the VSa Chatbox (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=235271) or the GCBOS - Generic Chat Box Operating System (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=228046).

In IE 8, when some one makes a post / new thread, it does not show up on forum home in the 'New Posts' column and I have waited hours although It does show up in the Whats New tab. To get it to show up, you have to close IE and restart it. I have tested this without the chats and with both chats on IE8.

I have tested on FireFox and it works fine.

I was wondering if anyone may have any thoughts on this matter or maybe a way to fix this please.

[bobster65]

I have found a problem when I am using either the VSa Chatbox (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=235271) or the GCBOS - Generic Chat Box Operating System (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=228046).

In IE 8, when some one makes a post / new thread, it does not show up on forum home in the 'New Posts' column and I have waited hours although It does show up in the Whats New tab. To get it to show up, you have to close IE and restart it. I have tested this without the chats and with both chats on IE8.

I have tested on FireFox and it works fine.

I was wondering if anyone may have any thoughts on this matter or maybe a way to fix this please.

Its only doing this when those two mods are also installed, or all the time?

[heywho]

I so appreciate your support... Wonderful

and the value of he mod --


it really opens vB up for Information Architecture in a simple and elegant way... his one has made the biggest difference in
how I conceived of my site and opened up new areas and possibilities


HUGE Opportunity to rethink the navigation and areas of your site --

Thank you sooo much... way cool...

[Universal]

Its only doing this when those two mods are also installed, or all the time?

Sorry, I could have explained it better, was tired.

Only when one of those two mods are installed.

[NO deadliner]

Short Question Is your Mod Supporting secendery Groups ? Dont think so maybe you can add this in your next Version. What i mean is when someone is Primar Reg User and Secend. Admin he cant see the Tabs with Admin Rights (6) only.

[bobster65]

Short Question Is your Mod Supporting secendery Groups ? Dont think so maybe you can add this in your next Version. What i mean is when someone is Primar Reg User and Secend. Admin he cant see the Tabs with Admin Rights (6) only.

That is one of the bugs. It is being worked on and will be released in the next update.

[xTREKKERx]

great mod, added an hour ago, as said opens up a whole new way of navigating your site.

thanks

[bobster65]

I have found a problem when I am using either the VSa Chatbox (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=235271) or the GCBOS - Generic Chat Box Operating System (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=228046).

In IE 8, when some one makes a post / new thread, it does not show up on forum home in the 'New Posts' column and I have waited hours although It does show up in the Whats New tab. To get it to show up, you have to close IE and restart it. I have tested this without the chats and with both chats on IE8.

I have tested on FireFox and it works fine.

I was wondering if anyone may have any thoughts on this matter or maybe a way to fix this please.

Cyb (Valtar) just released a new version today. I installed it and it seems to work fine. I don't have IE8 tho, so you'll need to check it out again and let me know.

[dangerin]

i?m Newly here and sorry for all..
i've removedmanually all the files taht i'had uploaded
i've removed all the plugins
but when i try to uninstall this great product ( but that i'm not able to go on ) EVER have this message :

Database error in vBulletin 4.0.1:

Invalid SQL:
DROP TABLE `tabs`;

MySQL Error : Unknown table 'tabs'
Error Number : 1051
Request Date : Sunday, February 14th 2010 @ 10:21:19 AM
Error Date : Sunday, February 14th 2010 @ 10:21:19 AM
Script : http://www.******.**/admincp/plugin.php?do=productkill
Referrer : http://www.*****.**/admincp/plugin.php?do=productdelete&productid=bobster_tfh&s=
IP Address : ***.**.***.***
Username : ****
Classname : ***Database
MySQL Version : 5.1.42

i think to have executed all the suggests that all you have done to me but . .
i can try also to reinstall newly but is the same operation that i've done yesterday and the day before and before

thnaks to all

[GrossKopf]

Any known problems with this mod and vb 4.0.2?

[Sador]

Any known problems with this mod and vb 4.0.2? Works fine on my vb 4.02 testboard, anyway.

However, I'm still curious about the seo stuff.

[bobster65]

Any known problems with this mod and vb 4.0.2?

Not that I've found yet. Just upgraded my dev site this AM and all runs smoothly.

[DivineMessenger]

In the screenshot there's one for recent blogs... how did you do that?

Also, is there a way to change the color of the tab and or the text?

[fatal1980]

You can go to admincp --> tabs --> manage modules and enable the blog tab...

[DivineMessenger]

lol wow... thank you =]

[merk_aus]

I got your 3.8 site working like a charm (check it out). Still messing around with being able to pull it of with vb4. getting closer tho ;)

Site looked great, pm'd you about my stupid most annoying administrator adding a skin and stuffing the entire thing but it did look great what you did - would be nice to have it working on vb4 if/when you get it going.

Keep up the good work this has always been one of my favorite sites.

[silverfox_uw]

I have tried putting this on vb 4.0.2, which i recently upgraded my forums too, but i can not get it working at all. I can get all the tabs up, set the default ect,ect
however, even if i just list it to show one forum, it shows every forum no matter what i do, on every tab.

any ideas

[Sador]

I have tried putting this on vb 4.0.2, which i recently upgraded my forums too, but i can not get it working at all. I can get all the tabs up, set the default ect,ect
however, even if i just list it to show one forum, it shows every forum no matter what i do, on every tab.

any ideasAre you sure you set the forum ID's right for every tab?

[silverfox_uw]

yes, two different people have tried it. i used this on vbul 4.0.0 but did not install it again when i done a fresh forum of 4.0.1. i have upgraded that forum to 4.0.2 and wanted to put ti back on, but can not get it working

[heywho]

Not that I've found yet. Just upgraded my dev site this AM and all runs smoothly.

I just upgraded to v.4.0.2 and it's fine... Still not working w/ hasans sub-forum hack -- but.... no probs with new vB release In my experience

[tafreeh]

Hey Bobster anyway to make it work with Sub Forum Manager plugins?

[RedHacker]

Cat 1
|- Forum 1
|- Forum 2

|-Cat 2
|- Forum 3
|- Forum 4
|-Cat 3
|- Forum 5
|- Forum 6


In this explain can show in one tab Forum 1 and the another tab Forum 5?

[heywho]

hey Bob...

Tabs working great in 4.0.1 SP1....

Any progress on getting this working with Hasans subforum manager m. the two together are a great combo mod... best info architecture system available for vB, that I can see

[RedHacker]

If category forum display as 0 and the foumdisplay who select etg 50 put in tab not display

[booktoweb]

it's a wonderful
i used it but i hope to increase any icon appear when forums are load like any ajax load when we show icon with message like ( https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2011/01/5.gif forums are being load please wait .... )

[bobster65]

hey Bob...

Tabs working great in 4.0.1 SP1....

Any progress on getting this working with Hasans subforum manager m. the two together are a great combo mod... best info architecture system available for vB, that I can see

I have not had time to look into the issues with Hasans sub forum manager. I've had weird results with it.... sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

However, Cyb (now known as Valtar) just released his version of sub forum manager and it works fine with TFH. Just upload his xml, make the setting changes you want and it displays just fine within the tabs...

VSa - Sub-Forum Manager
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=236960

[bobster65]

If category forum display as 0 and the foumdisplay who select etg 50 put in tab not display

correct... if you set a category display to 0, it hides that category from the forum home, so the same thing applies with TFH.. if a cat is set to 0 it will not display on forum home. I use the core forumhome functions currently. This will be changed in the next major version.

[Universal]

Hi bobster65, I posted earlier in this thread about this mod not working with the chatboxes available. I could not get it to work but now have it working with the latest chatbox version of the VSa - ChatBox (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=235271). I apologise I never got back to you but I placed this on the back burner for a bit.

It is great to have this mod back in gear again after I always used it on vB 3.0 series. Thankyou again very much for bringing this mod back to life for the 4.0 series. This mod is handy in so many ways and I can not wait for the better updates coming.

[zeroality]

Works on 4.0.2 for me.

[davew]

OK, here's a good one for you!

I have installed the product, love it! Thank you!

But I just found something really quirky!

If any single forum category has 12 or more forums, neither that category NOR the All Categories module will display???

And to make it really interesting - ONLY inInternet Explorer!! Firefox works just fine..

Good luck with that one :)

[bobster65]

OK, here's a good one for you!

I have installed the product, love it! Thank you!

But I just found something really quirky!

If any single forum category has 12 or more forums, neither that category NOR the All Categories module will display???

And to make it really interesting - ONLY inInternet Explorer!! Firefox works just fine..

Good luck with that one :)

weird! That is one that I've not seen yet. PM me a link to your site so I can see it first hand.

[heywho]

hey bob, what css file do I work w/ to change to look of the tabs... ?

thanks

http://inheriitingearth.net

[bobster65]

hey bob, what css file do I work w/ to change to look of the tabs... ?

thanks

clientscript/yui/tabview/assets/skin-tfh.css

[Universal]

I have updated to 4.0.2 and there are a few problems I have found.

For some reason when the tab mod is enabled the forums are locked, we can still post in them but this leads us to the next problem. Last post by on foum home does not change, if someone posts it does not show up (you can not tell if someone has posted in a thread unless you open the thread). The skin I am using is made for 4.0.2 also and I tried this on vB default skin and same probs happened.

I removed the template edits and kept the mod enabled and the fourm went back to normal on all skins.

I have not noticed anyone having these probs so I thought I would say something to see if anyone else is. I was hoping someone might have some thoughts on this.

[misticjeff]

Very Nice!! this may have been asked, but is it possible to make the "show all forums" module with a place to put forums you wish to exclude? This would save a bunch of time for those of us with many, many forums who don't want to have to list them all without the module.

Thanks

Installed!
Rated!
Nominated!

[Blackhat]

would be nice with a more advanced forum block manager now. So we can choose which forum block to appear on each of the tabs. If this is possible :)

[heywho]

clientscript/yui/tabview/assets/skin-tfh.css


Thanks Bob BTW, Hansens sufolder never got fixed, he never eve contacted me == If anyone has Not tried, It work *perectly* with this mod.... I; spoied, not so much that the suggest feature of controlling All Forums (as oppsed to what -- making the tab and ploacing eac hone by hand --
I duunh

Thanks for the the name -- you,and subforum manager are really a wonderful combo... Th Thanks

[heywho]

ack...I MEANT the sub_forums manager -- what a godsend -- it's Flawless with you Tabs -- really sweet...

Yeah, I uninstalled Hansom... tried reachhim <in dunno> really happy I got the _sub_forum_manager

i'm REALLY happy I found _sub_forum_manager -- like a said, the ability to have top level category's whit sub category's and then nested,, managed sub-forum combo is great combination

OK, lets see If I can under stand some css. and pain them

Bob, as long as this is fun for you -- have at it and keep adding features == and thanks for all the help the first night... HUGE difference in support... totally great.

[dying4004]

bro i am facing a prob.

i am running vb 4.0.2 and this mod. i ahve created 3 tabs. but all the forums show in all 3 tabs. it doesnt show only the forum catagory it is supposed to show. any idea why this is happening? cheers

[Blackhat]

when collapsing forums you get some massive design errors etc. To make sure search engine spiders can spider my content I made a notabbed style as the default style.

Is there a way I can make it possible to show special styles to spiders only ?

Thanks

[davew]

when collapsing forums you get some massive design errors etc. To make sure search engine spiders can spider my content I made a notabbed style as the default style.

Is there a way I can make it possible to show special styles to spiders only ?

Thanks

I've just come across this too..

Looks like it's not reading the CSS at all?

And I notice the URL is {url}/tabindex.php(etc) instead of forum.php ?

Is this normal, or have I stuffed up the config somewhere?

Cheers,
Dave

[imported_pmay68]

I've just come across this too..

Looks like it's not reading the CSS at all?

And I notice the URL is {url}/tabindex.php(etc) instead of forum.php ?

Is this normal, or have I stuffed up the config somewhere?

Cheers,
Dave

Same problem here.. OMG it's a bug!! SQUASH IT PLEASE!! :eek:

[bobster65]

I've just come across this too..

Looks like it's not reading the CSS at all?

And I notice the URL is {url}/tabindex.php(etc) instead of forum.php ?

Is this normal, or have I stuffed up the config somewhere?

Cheers,
Dave

na, its a bug... need to solve that one. thank you for pointing that out.

Same problem here.. OMG it's a bug!! SQUASH IT PLEASE!! :eek:

lol.. we'll get it squashed :D

[zeroality]

Oh wow, this is blocking spider access? Just used a search engine spider simulator and it showed none of my forum links. Disabled product until fix. Thanks.

[tafreeh]

bro i am facing a prob.

i am running vb 4.0.2 and this mod. i ahve created 3 tabs. but all the forums show in all 3 tabs. it doesnt show only the forum catagory it is supposed to show. any idea why this is happening? cheers

I think you have to use "all forum" module.


Is there a way I can make it possible to show special styles to spiders only ?

Thanks

Yes it is possible, however you have to use this hack:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=229038

Oh wow, this is blocking spider access? Just used a search engine spider simulator and it showed none of my forum links. Disabled product until fix. Thanks.

Do no use this hack for guest, make a seprate style for users and use this mod https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=229038

[Popa Andrei]

so with this y will create tabs like this forum has?

[Popa Andrei]

just installed it and y suggest that you make the tabs remain on all forum pages not only in FORUMHOME

[Popa Andrei]

In IE all forums are shown in all tabs :( (i am ussing mozzila)

[Popa Andrei]

The Inline doesent wok anymore.
Is this mode supported because if no one is fixing the bugs y will unnistall it :(

[Furcal15]

I've installed this. When I create a new tab with a certain category ID, it shows that category and its forums at the top, but then it also shows the rest of my forums below that. I only want that category to be showing, not the rest of my board as well.

[pjdaley]

I seem to having the same issue as a few others, all the forums seem to show regardless of the cat ID i chose.

[Popa Andrei]

I've installed this. When I create a new tab with a certain category ID, it shows that category and its forums at the top, but then it also shows the rest of my forums below that. I only want that category to be showing, not the rest of my board as well.
if you select an categery its logical that the category child forums will be shown as whell;)

[Furcal15]

if you select an categery its logical that the category child forums will be shown as whell;)

I know it shows the child forums as well, but it also shows every single other forum I have on my forum below that. It duplicates that category and sub-forums and moves it too the top.

[Popa Andrei]

I know it shows the child forums as well, but it also shows every single other forum I have on my forum below that. It duplicates that category and sub-forums and moves it too the top.

ss because i dont undestand you.

[DjEddie]

Hi, I'm getting an error with IE ... sometimes the tabs dont load straight off can be a while compared to firefox... the error IE 8 gives out is: (i think this error relates to this mod as the error wasn't there before this mod installed)

Webpage error details

Message: 'undefined' is null or not an object
Line: 99
Char: 3
Code: 0
URI: http://www.*****.com/****/clientscript/yui/tabview/dispatcher.js


Any ideas ...

Thanks :)

[bobster65]

I know it shows the child forums as well, but it also shows every single other forum I have on my forum below that. It duplicates that category and sub-forums and moves it too the top.

Sounds like you didn't remove the Forumbits from the FORUMHOME Template. I'd have to look at your FORUMHOME Template to see whats going on. Someone else did this the other day and that was the problem.

[bobster65]

Hi, I'm getting an error with IE ... sometimes the tabs dont load straight off can be a while compared to firefox... the error IE 8 gives out is: (i think this error relates to this mod as the error wasn't there before this mod installed)

Webpage error details

Message: 'undefined' is null or not an object
Line: 99
Char: 3
Code: 0
URI: http://www.*****.com/****/clientscript/yui/tabview/dispatcher.js


Any ideas ...

Thanks :)

Ya, waiting on the Author of dispatcher.js to fix the IE issues (both in 7 and 8).

[bobster65]

The Inline doesent wok anymore.
Is this mode supported because if no one is fixing the bugs y will unnistall it :(

Yes, it is supported. We work on it when we have time. Just happens that we are all very busy in our lives at the moment. Uninstall if you want to. Doesn't make a difference to us. We will work on it when we can regardless of the number of installs.

It is marked as BETA for a reason. We are well aware that there are bugs to be ironed out. It was released as BETA for those that want to install it on their development sites. Doesn't mean that you can't use it in production, just means that there are known bugs and if you want to take the chance in using it in a production environment, that's up to you.

[Popa Andrei]

Yes, it is supported. We work on it when we have time. Just happens that we are all very busy in our lives at the moment. Uninstall if you want to. Doesn't make a difference to us. We will work on it when we can regardless of the number of installs.

It is marked as BETA for a reason. We are well aware that there are bugs to be ironed out. It was released as BETA for those that want to install it on their development sites. Doesn't mean that you can't use it in production, just means that there are known bugs and if you want to take the chance in using it in a production environment, that's up to you.
ok then wath can we do to help you guys fixing these bugs?

[Furcal15]

Sounds like you didn't remove the Forumbits from the FORUMHOME Template. I'd have to look at your FORUMHOME Template to see whats going on. Someone else did this the other day and that was the problem.

Thank you! That fixed it.

How can I make the Category invisible everywhere else but the tab? Cause the forums in the tab show up on the forum index as well.

[Furcal15]

Nevermind, I used common sense.

[Popa Andrei]

Look wath happens when y click the collapse button
114264
114265

And in subforum the collapse buton of cattegories sents me to the top instead of collapsing the category.

Did you guys know about these ones?

[Furcal15]

For whoever wants to see mine in action. http://baseballnation.net/index.php

[Popa Andrei]

The Inline doesent wok anymore.
Is this mode supported because if no one is fixing the bugs y will unnistall it :(


problem is solved.It was because of this plugin. (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=228036)
Sry for accusing you plugin instead.

[mandingo]

Can't edit templates
unclosed_tag

Oops,fixed,I fail at life.

[DjEddie]

Ya, waiting on the Author of dispatcher.js to fix the IE issues (both in 7 and 8).
Okays least wasn't just me ... do u roughly have a time scale ? or?

also btw not sure if u remember.. when u first posted this mod for version 4 .. when closing the sidebar down the forum didnt re-extend.. since the vb update to 4.02 .. all works spot on now on that side of it .. just letting you know :)

For whoever wants to see mine in action. http://baseballnation.net/index.php

nice site furcal .skin looks good :)

[bobster65]

Okays least wasn't just me ... do u roughly have a time scale ? or?

also btw not sure if u remember.. when u first posted this mod for version 4 .. when closing the sidebar down the forum didnt re-extend.. since the vb update to 4.02 .. all works spot on now on that side of it .. just letting you know :)

Just got the new version of Dispatcher :up: Just upgraded my test site using YUI 2.7.0 and the new version of dispatcher.. no IE errors and IE seems to be working fine. Putting together a new release today... should be out later today or tomorrow (might try and fix a few bugs in the mean time).

[Popa Andrei]

Instaling The Update Now.
:d

In forumhome do y replace the previos code or add the new one after the last.

[bobster65]

Beta 2 released. Download the new attached ZIP file and follow the UPGRADE instructions COMPLETELY.

[jack2009]

i am using vb 4.0.2
I need a plugin or modification by which i can put my forum main section to the same tab location where the HOME, BLOGS, FORUMS are there.





https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2010/03/32.png






and along with it i want to ad all the sub forums to those main section. so that when user put a mouse button there than it can be scrolled like this one...





https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2010/03/33.png






can someone plz help me.......




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[Hornstar]

Yeah that would be sweet to have a mod that would easily do that. But I think that might be for another mod.

Thanks for the update. I'll give it a go on my VB4 forum sometime this weekend :)

[Popa Andrei]

The new border loock great.
Collapse button still doesent work ;)

[bobster65]

The new border loock great.
Collapse button still doesent work ;)

ah crap.. I KNEW that there was something else I need to fix! gah! I'll try and figure out a solution for that tomorrow if I have time.

Did you test it in IE to see if it fixed the IE issues that you were having? Everything seemed to work fine for me in IE.

[jack2009]

are you people gonna find a solution for it? if somebody find the solution for the scroll tabs as shown in picture than plz let me know...thanks


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[Universal]

Thankyou and nice job on the update :)

I was wondering, is there a way I could put a different banner between the tabs and the first forum for each tab? So each tab had its own banner or code pop up under it when it was clicked?

I was able to do this on the 3.8 version through editing the code on forumhome but I am not sure how to do it on this one. Any help would be appreciated.

Oh and the collapse button works on IE8 and FF.

Oh and I forgot to add, in a future version are we going to be able to be on one tab, then refresh the page and remain on the tab before you refreshed, instead of going back to the default one?

[ps2wiz]

bobster65, thanks for the update. I just updated my forum with the newest version. Keep up the good work.

are you people gonna find a solution for it? if somebody find the solution for the scroll tabs as shown in picture than plz let me know...thanks



Post a thread in the modification request section, what you want has no relation to this mod.

[tafreeh]

ah crap.. I KNEW that there was something else I need to fix! gah! I'll try and figure out a solution for that tomorrow if I have time.

Did you test it in IE to see if it fixed the IE issues that you were having? Everything seemed to work fine for me in IE.
I'll wait another day :)

[Trek]

I just gave this mod a shot again as the old one didn't work right for me. This one seems to have the same problem for me.

Problem:

Categories are more than 2 levels deep, do not show their forums. So clicking a tab, shows no forums under it.

Here's an example of my forum hierarchy.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2010/03/32.png

Anything at the level you see at the top, Warhammer, Xbox and DHV Events, will appear.

However, If I select any of the following categories:

DHV Game Divisions
Aion - Elyos
Aion - Elyos - Public
Aion - Elyos - PrivateNone of the forums:

Aion - General Discussions
Aion - Clan Announcements
Aion - Discussions
Aion - CraftingWill ever appear in one of the tabs.

So in short, if a forum is deeper than 2 categories, they will not appear.

[Popa Andrei]

Did you test it in IE to see if it fixed the IE issues that you were having? Everything seemed to work fine for me in IE.
It works great.
And the mark forums read would be great if you would male it to work only in the selected category.

[Universal]

Bobster, I tried it in IE again and there are still problems :(

When someone makes a thread or post, it does not show up on the Last Post on forum home. Also, if a thread or post is deleted, it still shows up on forum home. This is on all tabs, including the All Forums tab. I found if I closed my browser and deleted cookies etc, they showed up but eventually it just goes back to the same problem.

FireFox works awesome but that damn IE is still causing the problems. With more than 70% - 80% of people using IE still, this is a major concern, I will wait for a future update. Crossing my fingers cause this is an awesome mod. :)

[bobster65]

I just gave this mod a shot again as the old one didn't work right for me. This one seems to have the same problem for me.

Problem:

Categories are more than 2 levels deep, do not show their forums. So clicking a tab, shows no forums under it.

Here's an example of my forum hierarchy.

http://www.darkhandofvalor.com/images/other/forum_hierarchy.png

Anything at the level you see at the top, Warhammer, Xbox and DHV Events, will appear.

However, If I select any of the following categories:

DHV Game Divisions
Aion - Elyos
Aion - Elyos - Public
Aion - Elyos - PrivateNone of the forums:

Aion - General Discussions
Aion - Clan Announcements
Aion - Discussions
Aion - CraftingWill ever appear in one of the tabs.

So in short, if a forum is deeper than 2 categories, they will not appear.

Can you PM me the link to your Forum so that I can see how your heirarchy looks like on default vB?

[bobster65]

Bobster, I tried it in IE again and there are still problems :(

When someone makes a thread or post, it does not show up on the Last Post on forum home. Also, if a thread or post is deleted, it still shows up on forum home. This is on all tabs, including the All Forums tab. I found if I closed my browser and deleted cookies etc, they showed up but eventually it just goes back to the same problem.

FireFox works awesome but that damn IE is still causing the problems. With more than 70% - 80% of people using IE still, this is a major concern, I will wait for a future update. Crossing my fingers cause this is an awesome mod. :)

I just ran a bunch of test with both IE7 and IE8 ... I have the forum open in IE7, I have the forum open with FF. I post on the FF browser, click on the tab in IE7 and the new post displays. I do the same with IE7 (make a post), hit the tab with IE8, and the new post shows up.

Can you link me to your forum so I can see it first hand?

[Universal]

I just ran a bunch of test with both IE7 and IE8 ... I have the forum open in IE7, I have the forum open with FF. I post on the FF browser, click on the tab in IE7 and the new post displays. I do the same with IE7 (make a post), hit the tab with IE8, and the new post shows up.

Can you link me to your forum so I can see it first hand?

Thankyou very much for the help Bobster, I sent you a PM with log in info and url, in case you wanted to look that way. Feel free to sign up yourself with your own name if you want.

Just thought, in case you don't read PMs, here is the link www.uowforums.com.

[ps2wiz]

Hmm, I just encountered a compatibly problem with "vB4: SuperCharged 1.3" when "Enable Javascript Optimiser" is enabled.

I guess this is related to the script files not being hosted locally anymore?

Any thoughts on this please?

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=229608

[RedHacker]

bobster65 i think lost the horizontal lines of forums....

[Popa Andrei]

bobster65 i think lost the horizontal lines of forums....
screen shots man.

[RedHacker]

screen shots man.

http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/6567/78034625.jpg

[Universal]

bobster65 i think lost the horizontal lines of forums....

Yeah me also, the lines that separate the forums on forum home, same on IE8 and FireFox.

[jack2009]

how to do like this shown in this pictures...means in one tab all the sections are comming..



https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2010/03/31.png

[Popa Andrei]

http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/6567/78034625.jpg

yes me to.
Didnt noticed that.Please fix.

[craiovaforum]

thank you for the update but loading another yui library from yahoo? wow, no thank you. it seems a bit overkill to me.

is there no way that you can use the vbulletin yui?

[bobster65]

thank you for the update but loading another yui library from yahoo? wow, no thank you. it seems a bit overkill to me.

is there no way that you can use the vbulletin yui?

I don't get it. Its FASTER for your users AND it puts less strain on your server. vB doesn't use the full YUI Library and they modify their version of YUI Tabview, so no. Feel free to modify it to use what ever you want to tho. Like I said in the Upgrade doc, if you'd rather put the files on your server, then do so. If there is the same version of a specific file in the current clientscript/yui and you want to point to that instead, do it. Just make sure the versions are all compatible with each other and remain in the same order of call.

[bobster65]

bobster65 i think lost the horizontal lines of forums....

I'll check this out.

forumhome_forumbit_level1_post
forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost

Those are the templates that do the output and I didn't make any changes to them, so I am not sure why they don't work right now (cept if their is some sorta CSS conflict that I don't see right off).