Is it possible to have the shoutbox collapsed please on the index page?

I recently added SSL certificate to the site. Everything works fine except for chrome browser users. The shoutbox just hangs on loading. everything else on the site works with chrome. All other browsers work fine with the shoutbox and ssl.

Not by default, but the Shoutbox is collapsible via the normal collapse image :)

Are you using the latest version? There's been multiple SSL fixes, and we briefly ran SSL on DBTech without any issue :)

In either case, have them click the yellow triangle in the browser bar and load unsecured content - that will work.


Fillip

I have multiple questions as I am converting from vb3 to vb4.2.0 Patch Level 3

1) Does this work in vb4.2.0 Patch Level 3?

2) Is it possible to set it up where the chat box displays in a forum?

3) Does it display anywhere else, if so can it be disabled?

4) Is it possible to disable it for user use, at least based on usergroup? (want to control who has capability to use it)

5) Do you know anything about this mod https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=93097, if so with this mod https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=242071 work with it?

6) Will this go with the color scheme of our skins or do I have to manually change it?

Currently our shout box is setup in one forum and it is privileged based to get to it and that is what I want to setup. Looking at this for our current forum and another that we will be setting up in vb soon.

Thanks

Viper

1) Indeed it does :)

2) You can manually deploy the Shoutbox - here's the canned response:

Step 1: AdminCP -> DBTech - vBShout-> Instance Management -> [Edit].

Step 2: Change the Auto-Display Shoutbox setting to Disabled.

Step 3: Write down the the Varname setting. For the default shoutbox, it's instance1. The rest of this guide will assume you replace instance1 with the actual Varname if it is different.

Step 4: Enter the Style Manager and add either {vb:raw show.vbshout_instance1} (vB4) or {$show[vbshout_instance1]} (vB3) to the templates you wish the shoutbox to appear in.


If you wrap the variable in (I think that's the correct variable name, check the rest of the FORUMDISPLAY template to make sure) then you can control it per-forum.

3) By default, under the navbar on forum home. It can be disabled :)

4) Indeed it is :)

5) The second link is used to import shouts from the first link :)

6) Some skins may not use the stylevars correctly and as such require colour changes to the tabs. There's a CSS template for this (dbtech_vbshout_colours.css).


Fillip

Active Users Shout-bit: Shows the users active in the tab/instance you are, with the option to view everyone who can enter/exit the room at will (and thus see any shouts posted) in a pop-up to save resources. Perfect for seeing what's going on and who's around at a glance.
Where can I change this? I'm only seeing the users who are in effect active in the chat. Users who are only watching the chat don't show up in the list. I would also like to see them in the list.

A second question I have is what does the option "is auto idle' on/off ? What is the purpose of this setting? What should be used?

Looking for that answer as well.

Is there nobody who can help sort this out please? See my post number 2276!

You can't change that, it will not show users who are only watching the chat, sorry.

It controls what usergroups start their Shoutbox browsing session as "idle", meaning they don't see new shouts until they manually un-idle themselves.

This is useful for server resource conservation.


Fillip

So it's not possible to manually change adjust some parameter to get this done? Would be nice to have this in the next release do.

If I set the usergroup to idle= on then they will have to un-idle themselves to keep seeing the chat.
Wouldn't it then be possible to have them come in the chat as idle and they then have to un-idle themself to be able to see the chat. Because when they un-idle themself they pop up in the list of activ users?