signature should be controled as far fonts and such.. otherwise I seen some sigs all over the box. for now I had to disable the display of sigs.

Great mod thogh
Thanks

This really is a great modification and I just want to thank you again because it's obvious you care about support and that's what's most important. Thank you for your hard work!

On IE the text overlaps in the forum block. See screenshot. Is it possible to rectify that somehow please?

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Thanks.

I'll take a look at the code. I'll probably end up cutting the text short at a certain character length if it's longer. The only other option is forcing it not to wrap, which I don't want to do on a sideblock since that'll squeeze out your forums.

Is there a way to include this addon on a custom template?

I made a modification that should fix this. If you are using the sideblock it will check if the forum name is over 25 characters long, if it is it will crop it down to fit. I also fixed an error in the cron script that picks a user.

Not sure what you mean by adding it to a custom template?

Thank you very very much!! That did it! :up: :)

Nice Mood :D Thanks

I do not want to use the addon on wgo (specially on default it is included on template_hook.forumhome_wgo_pos2). There should be a option, where i can define a custom template where to insert something like {vb:raw user_spotlight}.

You surely understand me now.

I understand now. I didn't really design it to work that way and it would be a formatting nightmare to support considering the number of places you could put it and the style changes that would need to be tweaked for different locations.
You could just create your own template hook in your template, replace mine in the file and achieve the same result.

After updating its now showing members who i have not selected to show via admin
Cheers

I love the mod... I'm using it in a side block. I would like to change the name of the side block from User Spotlight to my own custom heading. Does anyone know how to change it?

vB Admin --> Languages & Phrases --> Search in Phrases --> user spotlight --> --> Edit --> Translation --> Save
:)

After installing this I got this as a fault and now my site is not accessable:

this fault shows up in my admin panel when i try to go to my products and when the forum is trying to be accessed.

Please help my site is down!!!

It sounds like you didn't upload the files correctly. You should have a file at /public_html/forum/dbtech/spotlight/hooks/cache_templates.php

I will redownload and the files and try to upload them again..

Ok the problem was I have upgraded my site to VPS account and the shared account was suspended and the files to this mod were on the shared account. You helped me bigtime with that bro thank you. I had installed this mod after the upgrade began and with the dns finally were pointing properly the mods I installed while in transition were carried over. So i went in and installed it again but like i said before the files that were in the upload folder went to the shared account and not the VPS upgraded one.

It was my issue and not yours bro... Thank you for the response because that is what led me to find the problem.

Installed and working ( I think )

4.1.1

Spotlight Member ID & Spotlight Next Cron Run

All seem to equal 1. I tried removing that value, but it seems to return. I'm just hoping it does not automatically keep user ID #1 (which would be me).

You could try to manually run the scheduled task. It's called Dragonbyte-Tech: Spotlight - Pick Random User
It will also create a scheduled task log entry every time it runs with a message of what it did.

You guys never fail! Great mod!

i have this problem only on my CMS page. My sidebar works great on my forum. I tried top make a CMS widget with teh same code and i get the above in the widget box. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

The CMS uses different hooks then the forumhome, so most likely the code isn't running to select the user. I'll look at add the option to have it on a CMS widget for the next release.

Mark to Install . Thanks to DragonByte Tech
http://xacchet.com

Very good but the cron seems not to work, it's always the same member, is there something to do or to check to fix it please ? Thanks

Check the scheduled task log. It should be logging an entry every time it runs.

Would love to see this mod be able to publish user spotlight to a CMS article on the front page.

does this work with 4.1.2 ..

I get nothing at all

I've gotten a couple requests for that. As soon as I have a few free hours I'll work on getting it as a CMS widget.

I have it running on 4.1.3. Which location are you trying to display it at? under navbar, wgo or sidebar?

Dylan

tried it in every location still nothing .

ha I am an idiot .

I did not select any "usergroups allowed" to see it

Great Mod! Marked as Installed!

1 question, I was able to go in and edit it to take out the Last Activity and Most Visited. I'd like to add some other custom fields I've created, 3 to be infact. What would I need to edit and what code would I need to enter to achieve this?

Thanks in advance

What custom fields, in user profile?

field10, field11, field13

They are profile fields admins manually fill in so we know everyone who will be showing up in the spotlight will have one.

Ok in ACP, Settings/Dragonbyte-Tech: Spotlight - General Options look for Custom Profile Fields and ass them there.

Add the custom profile field id's that would like to be displayed. For multiple fields, separate them with a commaFor example, if you want to display the data from custom profile field43 and field68, enter 43,68

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Hey Ozzy thanks for your response bud. At first that’s what I was doing but it was only showing 3 out of the 5 profile fields I had entered for some reason. That’s when I went in and deleted 2 of the default fields (Most Visited and Last Activity) and tried to manually add the 2 custom fields that weren’t showing up. Upon opening the site today all fields were visible so it must have just needed a little time to kick in I guess.

Thanks again for the response, and where did u get that admincp style? Love the black and red. I used to have that on an old site of mine and haven’t been able to find one for 4.1.2.

@Dozer826 here it is https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ht=heavy+metal

Are you using it as a forum sidebar? If you do, any changes you make aren't seen until it's recached

Dylanblitz is correct, and I believe [DBTech] has that set at 5min as default for the cache, you can change it in Forum Blocks Manager/Edit block: Spotlight User/Cache Time (in minutes)