I know it has been done. Here's a forum that has it. Link

I think that's vbPortal.

it doesn't work on my vb 3.8

I have read through all this thread, i think. Over a couple of days.

Could someone please post how to add conditionals in the block templates.

Where to edit, and what to include?

This one works.
I have tried just a very simple conditional in my template, but it simply doesnt show.
What can possibly be wrong with such a simple statement which is obviously global?

Your help is appreciated.

EDIT: I think i found it, but the $show[member] would be better.

any help would be appreciated. :)

I hope this add-on will be standard in vBulletin 4.0 :)

For some reason it's not showing up in my 3.8 forum at all. I just edited the block1 template and put in

But nothing shows up.

I tried the different "insertion points" in the options, but none of them work. I wanted to see about editing my template. According to the readme.txt, this

But there is no such info in the readme.

Help please! :)

Wow this is the problem I had. The readme for this mod definitely needs some work.

did u allow this mod to be shown for your usergroup in the usergroup settings?

No, I just found that by chance looking here. Someone really needs to rewrite the readme, it's useless.

Good plugin though

The readme does leave out the bit about the usergroups, but it is well covered here. The rest of the readme seems quite useful to me.

I have noticed on several examples here a problem that I have also. The left and right collapse buttons do not line up the same. The left collapse is above the column, but the right collapse is to the right of its column. I think that is a glitch in the template, but I could not find it. I liked the idea that one user suggested of using a separate button to condition the columns. He put the button in the user login bits at the top of the screen. A nice little set of buttons would have a screen icon with a column on each side that changed color and controlled its respective column display.

I would also love to see some nice full examples of how to generate a text stream from some of the local information. I tired using an iframe with the result that all my Ajax controls were disabled. I will look on vb.com to see if I can find the technique mentioned earlier for displaying the contents of a thread. It would be good to have a nice dictionary of the conditionals information useful for controlling block contents. That may require just reading on my parts.

In reading all these posts I have been surprised at how often examples have been posted with bad html. i.e. <tr><td>some stuff</tr></td> instead of correctly nesting the tags. The other common error was leaving off the closing tag on an <a href=.......>Link stuff </a>.

I am surprised that any browsers allow such code, but browser developers must try to be tolerant of errors.

If someone has a clue how to fix the collapse button positioning I would appreciate seeing that. One of my users is giving me fits over it. If anyone has a site where the buttons are used and display correctly, that would be useful too.

In any case, thanks Kerry Ann for this fine addition.:up:

I'm using the Geek Advertising Banner System (GAB). When I put the GAB code ($GAB_ads[0]) in one of the usc blocks my banner doesn't show up. Has anybody found a way to display banners using GAB and USC?

Well I give up officially since at first there might be help but this thread has officially gone full non support

How can we make just certain bars collapsible?

does any one have this working on 3.7.x?
I tried everything in my power. Forum permissions are on, edited the templates by hand, or by the hack... nothing shows up.

How can i set this to only display on certain threads/forums?

Try the usergroup permissions. Look at the very bottom and find the setting to show side columns. :D

Hi

Already did, not showing. Nothing shows up no left or right column no custom block... weird

When viewing sub forums the ads display under the sub forums. How can we fix this?

See here

http://www.sacpaintball.com/forum/fo...play.php?f=138

Thanks

Have you put some content in the templates? Look in your templates list for
Ultimate Side Column Templates

Then add the following to usc_block_1

Now check to see if it shows. :D

a couple of things.........
1. Does this conflict with vbadanced?
2. does it work on 3.8?

Yes it works on 3.8 you need to go to user permissions and turn it ON there for each usergroup you want to see columns..

But I have same problem to tommythejoat:

Works fine on 3.8. but when i check the option to show it on vbadvanced it doesnt show, although it is a useless feature for me within vbadvanced anyway.

Can I use this for Sponsor Columns?

ALi

Bump

Thank You.

Ok so here it goes.
I checked left and right column, got the code you mentioned:
Nothing shows.
Edited usergroup permissions--- nothing.

Weird stuff :)

I like this mod. I use it for links and a slideshow (via iframe).
I also would like to use tag clouds, but couldn't find out how to do.
Any ideas?

Downloaded and installed. Works fine so far.

Question. The usc_cp.php is uploaded to the forum folder (root), correct?

yes

Is this mod compatible with 3.8.1 ?

I can't get the custom columns with mine.

Trying to align the side column with the forums, went through the posts and saw to lower sidebar you add a break but in our case we want to raise the sidebar to match our forums.

Anyone have any ideas?

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Edited - found the solution, had to remove first <br/> in the left column template, alls good.

I need to add php in a column how is that done ?

I did the default install, now I want to create a new style that doesnt use the columns. Does anyone know what templates to edit to turn them off?

When using this mod I get an error in the attachment (contol panel)

Same problem. Your solution helped but now I'm slightly higher. :confused:

Can anyone help me get this to show on my vBA cmps 3.1.0 page please. Thanks. :up:

Hi Kerry-Anne, UI have searched now through these mod threads and have not yet found an answer or directions on how to include an external RSS feed into Ultimate Side Columns 2.2.

Is this possible? If someone has posted the solution could someone or yourself please post the link to that solution. Many thanks.

Also a second question: Are you able to place the Ultimate Side Columns 2.2 under the welcome template area so it aligns with the forum categories etc. The reason for this is so my breadcrumb and login areas don't begin to wrap due to the right column beginning to the right of them

Many thanks :)