Lee Lichterman
09-14-2003, 09:59 PM
Sorry if some of this is repeats but when I looked around, I could not tell which hacks were VB2 and which were VB3. I am a brand new user of VB3 just switching over from Discus Pro 2 days ago. I had many of these requested hacks built into my discus board but am not finding easy ways to do them in VB3 though I am sure they are simple and I am just a dunce.
First off, I would like to add a table in the header of all pages that has links to areas of our site and other sites that my users use a lot. In discus, this was a simple enter and click and was called an "Announcement" message. I tried playing with announcements in VB3 but they are like threads and while I can put a picture in my header by replacing the VB logo, I don't see how to center it nor put html code into it. I found a couple hacks for center images and buttons but wasn't sure if they were VB2 or VB3 and suspect they were VB2 since the code to replace didn't look like the code in the header portion of my control panel.
I would like to put the table shown on the entry page here
http://marketswing.com/
in the center of all pages on the board.
I took off the table and added a message pointing to our new board but to get the idea, where the message about the board being down and to use the new one here
http://marketswing.com/cgi-bin/discus/discus.cgi
used to be the table shown in the above link.
I would like the new board to have an area like that that is easily editable also in the middle of the header.
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Second, is there a hack that will enable loading tables into the posts themselves? We are a stock market site and many of the financial reports come out in table form. I don't want to enable html for obvious security reasons and figure there is probably a BBcode that someone has written to enable table loading.
Again I hate to reference the board I discarded for this one, but Discus had a nice feature where you just entered the code /table{ then copied an excel or any other tab delimited entry after the tag and then closed it with a } and you got a perfect table paste. Is there anything like that for VB3? I tried "pre" but that doesn't seem to work.
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Is there a way to make attached pictures go into the meat of the message instead of going to the end?
We do a lot of stock chart attachments and then talk about them. If I post a chart and talk about it then want to post a comparison chart and talk about it, it is confusing if both charts are down at the bottom instead of up where I am talking about them. It seems there should be a way to tack them into the middle of the post where they are relevent.
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Last is there a way to make e-mail notification send out mail for each post and not just one time until you go back? Many of my users work at companies where they can't surf the net to sites like mine but want to see posts real time. They have come to rely on getting e-mailed messages as they are posted through e-mail and now I find that this board only tells you about the first post to a thread you are subcribed to and then stops until you go there. It seems there should be a way to just have each post go out without regard for if the person has visited or not.
Sorry to be a pain but the learning curve for this is pretty big.
Now if someone will just write an import utility to get Discus 4.006 into VB3, I will be in hog heaven. I have 3 years of posting history I need to save so I can kill my old board.
Thanks in Advance (TIA) and Good Luck,
Lee
First off, I would like to add a table in the header of all pages that has links to areas of our site and other sites that my users use a lot. In discus, this was a simple enter and click and was called an "Announcement" message. I tried playing with announcements in VB3 but they are like threads and while I can put a picture in my header by replacing the VB logo, I don't see how to center it nor put html code into it. I found a couple hacks for center images and buttons but wasn't sure if they were VB2 or VB3 and suspect they were VB2 since the code to replace didn't look like the code in the header portion of my control panel.
I would like to put the table shown on the entry page here
http://marketswing.com/
in the center of all pages on the board.
I took off the table and added a message pointing to our new board but to get the idea, where the message about the board being down and to use the new one here
http://marketswing.com/cgi-bin/discus/discus.cgi
used to be the table shown in the above link.
I would like the new board to have an area like that that is easily editable also in the middle of the header.
================================================== =
Second, is there a hack that will enable loading tables into the posts themselves? We are a stock market site and many of the financial reports come out in table form. I don't want to enable html for obvious security reasons and figure there is probably a BBcode that someone has written to enable table loading.
Again I hate to reference the board I discarded for this one, but Discus had a nice feature where you just entered the code /table{ then copied an excel or any other tab delimited entry after the tag and then closed it with a } and you got a perfect table paste. Is there anything like that for VB3? I tried "pre" but that doesn't seem to work.
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Is there a way to make attached pictures go into the meat of the message instead of going to the end?
We do a lot of stock chart attachments and then talk about them. If I post a chart and talk about it then want to post a comparison chart and talk about it, it is confusing if both charts are down at the bottom instead of up where I am talking about them. It seems there should be a way to tack them into the middle of the post where they are relevent.
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Last is there a way to make e-mail notification send out mail for each post and not just one time until you go back? Many of my users work at companies where they can't surf the net to sites like mine but want to see posts real time. They have come to rely on getting e-mailed messages as they are posted through e-mail and now I find that this board only tells you about the first post to a thread you are subcribed to and then stops until you go there. It seems there should be a way to just have each post go out without regard for if the person has visited or not.
Sorry to be a pain but the learning curve for this is pretty big.
Now if someone will just write an import utility to get Discus 4.006 into VB3, I will be in hog heaven. I have 3 years of posting history I need to save so I can kill my old board.
Thanks in Advance (TIA) and Good Luck,
Lee