Originally Posted by Ozymandyus (Post 2028302)

No, the only way I ever got it to work with the vB CMS was by basically shoehorning Valter's entire codebase for the chatbox into one widget (all credit to cory_booth there, thanks for the help, sir). This is however cumbersome, has problems with format and smilies, and of course you have to update it all by hand if the version changes. I was using it this way until the 4.0.3 vB release, which introduced so many CMS bugs that I got fed up with their interface and decided to look elsewhere. Here's what I did:

• Install VSa - Chatbox if you haven't already
• Download vbaCMS from http://www.vbadvanced.com/
• Install vbaCMS
• Disable vBulletin's built-in CMS, if you're using it (CP - Plugins & Products - Plugin Manager, uncheck everything under "Product : vBulletin CMS")
• Create new vbaCMS module
• CP - vBa CMPS - add a new module (type = template)
• Title "Chatbox" (or whatever, doesn't matter)
• Active - yes
• Template to Include: adv_portal_vsa_chatbox
• Style: whichever you're using
• Template Content: {vb:raw vsachatbox}
• Use Module Wrapper Template: no
• Set your usergroup permissions to taste
• Save your module
• Edit chatbox settings (CP - Settings - Options - VSa - ChatBox)
• Show ChatBox on pages: index,adv_index
• Show ChatBox in templates: FORUMHOME,adv_portal
• Save Chatbox settings
• Activate module on vbaCMS portal
• CP - vBa CMPS - Edit Pages - (whatever you've named your portal page)
• Drag your module to where you want it to display in your page in the "Active Modules" section
• Set your usergroup permissions to taste
• Not related to Chatbox, but you might want to tick off the "Add Navbar Link" option to keep your navbar consistent
• Save, take a deep breath, and enjoy!

Setting it up this way makes it active in your vbaCMS portal page and your forum home page. If you don't want it on the forum home page, take out the 'index' option for 'show on pages' in the chatbox settings.

Originally Posted by dankreiner (Post 2068351)

is there a way to make this a cms widget?

Originally Posted by Barteh (Post 2069003)

That works quite well, thanks :)
I'm having trouble getting the shoutbox to stay within the center column though, which is a bit odd because the shoutbox is supposed to be part of this column. Would this be something hardcoded within the chatbox or did you manage to get it to adhere to available width?

Originally Posted by Ozymandyus (Post 2069051)

Glad it helped you. What you describe makes it sound like it's not displaying within a widget but instead is displaying at the bottom of the navbar. In my case I wanted it that way so never thought to investigate it further.

Originally Posted by cory_booth (Post 1986527)

I was able to get the chat to work as a widget.

I made a JS Widget (where you can select a specific template)
and then I made a new template called shout.

I had to "merge" all the templates that came with chat into a single template and some varibles (like color, size, and smilies) do not pull over, so they had to be hand-jammed.

It appears with 4.02, the varible or global reference for this chat is no longer working?

But if a the next version has CMS ability, I would like a widget like mine...