Hello,

I have over a dozen forums and want to install this on just one of them. I guess I have to change the page from index to the forum I want this to appear in. Problem is, I have no idea how to identify the forum (or page), other than id 70. What exactly would the input look like in the Shoutbox deployment, or is this a manual entry. If it's a manual entry, again, how do I locate the script? I don't want this on the index page. I hope I'm making sense. Thank you!

Did you CHMOD the directory as per the readme file? That's the most common reason for this problem :)

Here's the basic information on manual placement:
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To put vBShout in a custom location, do the following:


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

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

Step 3: Change the Shoutbox Deployment setting to include the script names of all the pages you wish the Shoutbox to appear on. For instance:
To have it appear on the front page (CMS) as well as the Forum Home, you'd enter index,vbcms for this setting.
To have it appear on every page, you'd remove the contents of this setting.

Step 4: Change the Manually Display Shoutbox setting to include the template names you wish the Shoutbox to appear on. For instance:
To have it appear on the front page (CMS) as well as the Forum Home, you'd enter FORUMHOME,vbcms_page for this setting.
To have it appear on every page, you'd enter navbar for this setting.

Step 5: Enter the Style Manager and add either {vb:raw vbshout} (vB4) or {$vbshout} (vB3) to the templates you named in Step 4 in the desired location.


Follow these steps as described and you will have total control over the position of the Shoutbox.
Please note that some locations may not work as intended on vBulletin 3.8, and also note that it is not designed to go in the Forum Blocks side-bar (vBulletin 4).

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To only make it show up in a specific forum, instead of {$vbshout} use this code:
I believe that's the correct code for vB3 :)


Fillip

Thank you Fillip. The page I want this to appear on is the following: forumdisplay.php?f=70. I disabled auto display, and used the above for the deployment location, not sure if that is correct and in the manual display input forumdisplay, and then copied the code you provided for a specific forum in that template. The shoutbox still does not appear. I'm sure I'm missing something simple, but I don't have coding experience and haven't any clues. I appreciate your assistance.

i get a 404 error whenever i install this product and try to edit the features via the left side in the admin panel...this is also happening in your facebook hack aswell...any knowledge of how to fix this?

I tried reuploading all the files and it went good..but still cant edit it in the Cpanel

Enter forum in deployment, see how that works.

Have you renamed your AdminCP directory, per chance?


Fillip

yes i did...hahah wow why da hell didnt i think of that....

Fillip, I changed it to forum, but still no luck. I double-checked permissions, I have the code you provided under $navbar in forumdisplay. I had tried it in forumhome with no luck there. I see the ref to it in the source code on the page, but no shoutbox.

I have this set up at /forumdisplay.php?f=70. I set the deployment to forumdisplay and template to forumdisplay.php?f=70 and vice versa. Tried forum as suggested but no luck. Also tried forumhome as the template.

Aha, upon further research then try these settings:
Shoutbox Deployment: forumdisplay
Manually Display Shoutbox: FORUMDISPLAY
Template Code
Hope that works :)


Fillip

Thank you Fillip! That did it. Much appreciated.

Ok good for the refresh! Totally didn't Chmod the folder! ;)
Now, i have different skins for different forums and the shout works A1 in all of them except for one!!! The template is a fix one but i changed the width to tune it and i can't get the shoutbox to show :(
Tried to add the {$vbshout} as mentioned in the forumdisplay under $navbar, tried $template_hook[vbshout]..........but no good results!

Strange since in every other ones they are all ok

Any idea on this???

Greatly appreciated