1.- I've tested it with FF, Chrome, IE Edge, Safari and works fine.
2.- I used #000000 (black) as link color and #FFFFF (white) as hover.

Hmmm... :confused:

I loaded Safari because the right panel on home page isn't appearing with our FireFox broswer, but I don't see where that text has been changed so it appears black?

It's still blue/grey when I view it under Safari?

Regards,
Doug

Seeing more carefully your screenshot i can see the Open/Close arrow to be there. Maybe you've closed it. Click the arrow at the very right of the page.

Which style are you using? I changed the default "SSL .......com Dark".

That right double arrow has always been there through all versions of Video Club we've tested and I mentioned it to you in an old post. You said it was for sidebar use, but it's never done anything.

I can click on it all day, but nothing happens as a result.

I still don't understand why it's there if sidebar option is disabled in our vBulletin, which it is..

Regards,
Doug

Well that's the problem..

We're using Medium as the default, although people can select light and dark as optional.

I also Milsurps labeled styles for testing with Milsurps.Com as the default one...

I guess ALL our templates should be BLACK text regardless of which one is chosen..

Regards,
Doug

I'm using sidebar's design and not settings. I don't check if it's enabled or not. I need it to show data and instead to add a static block I've added the sidebar which also has the Open/Close functionality.

Have you tried to login with my details?

This is not a problem. When I logon I seen this style visible to me and I thought that this is the default. The reason that I didn't changed all was simple to avoid double work. I was waiting your feedback to see if colors are ok for you, and if yes, then it's 5 min work to change all other styles. So? Do you agree with those colors? If you prefer different colors give me the hex values for link and for hover.

That's an interesting idea.. no, I haven't, but I'll do that now..

Regards,
Doug

No, FireFox same issue.. see attached...

Regards,
Doug

You seen my screenshot so something is wrong in your side. Maybe a setting in FF have no idea. Don't you've any Moderator to ask him to check the site?

As per your request, all your template (other than vb Default) have now as link color in sidebar #000000 (Black) and hover #FFFFFF (white).

I am the owner/moderator .. ;)

So, for clarity.. when you tested to see if you could make sidebars on our site work, you changed nothing?

Question: Is the right panel in home screen programmed as a sidebar in your code, which is why the unnecessary double arrow appears in video club, but on no other add-on or vBulletin page we use has it showing?

Thanks..

Regards,
Doug

If you want PM me your own login details to check it.

Edit: Ignore it. As you can't see sidebar with my login, is not a permissions error.

I'm not sure what site or templates you're working on or what you're changing, but the text is till blue/grey in ALL templates .. see attached..

... and that pic happens to be of the dark template which is the first one you referred to as being change..

Regards,
Doug

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No. Sidebar was active. The reason that it invisible is because your 3 blocks there were inactive. Sidebar appears in 2 ways:
1.- If it's active
2.- If there are active blocks.

As a proof that the sidebar was already active is that you can't build any block with inactive sidebar. There is a message with a link to activate it.

The only that I did was to cleate a block of latest threads, to get a screenshot and then to delete the block.

BUT AGAIN !! I can see perfectly the sidebar in video pages with FF 52.0.2. Is a problem with your own installation of FF. And if I remember well you said that with Safari you can see it. Is NOT a functionality error. Is a local (computer) error. Do you have the possibility to try your site from another computer?

Sorry, didn't understood this question.

Something is going wrong with you styles but don't know what. While the child Templates of mil.... Templates set were auto updated, the first 3 three updated only the hover color and not the link. I've changed those 3 one by one and I checked them.

Chris.. I fixed it...

I repeated the steps you did to test sidebars ..

1. Turned ON the sidebar option in vBulletin in AdminCP
2. Activated Forum Threads sidebar for ALL forums as a test...
3. Went to our site home page and saw the same jumble you saw when I clicked on the side bar to pop out from the left.
4. Clicked Video Club link and the main home page now had the right panel back !!!
5. Went back into AdminCP and de-activated Forum Threads sidebar for ALL forums ..
6.. Turned OFF the sidebar option in vBulletin in AdminCP.

Re-checked Video Club home page and the right panel is still there, so by reversing your steps, it seems to have solved the problem with my FireFox browser ..

The blue/grey text replace with black/whie looks great with the templates marked..

Light
--Dark
---Medium

It's still blue/grey when selecting..

--Milsurps Templates
---- SSL Milsurps Templates
---------Milsurps.com Light
---------Milsurps.Com Medium
---------Milsurps.Com Dark

Thanks.. :)

Regards,
Doug

Chris... I've checked again and I see you must have worked on the various templates some more.. thanks ... :)

The blue/grey text replace with black/whie looks great with the templates marked..

Here's what I see runnign through the various templates..

Light ...... OK
--Dark .....OK
---Medium OK

--Default (still blue/grey)

--Milsurps Templates (still blue/grey)
---- SSL Milsurps Templates (still blue/grey)
---------Milsurps.com Light ..... OK
---------Milsurps.Com Medium (still blue/grey)
---------Milsurps.Com Dark .......OK

Regards,
Doug

Only the Milsurps.Com Medium I found it not updated. Milsurps Templates and SSL Milsurps Templates as you can see in the attached screenshots are ok.

The problem is why, even if I'm getting message for updating child templates (showing the names), they don't really update.

What happen with sidebar? Have you found any other computer to test it?

Chris... see post #338... :up:

Regards,
Doug

Chris.... :)

Sent you an additional PayPal for the extra work you performed on our site, assisting with the text coloring etc.... much appreciated.... :up:

We're going to start planning for going live for our membership sometime this weekend, but we wanted to do further testing with the PM functions of "approving, rejecting etc.." first, to make sure there's no issues with that function.

I mentioned it earlier, but some thoughts for future design features we'd like to see, which some other mods similar to yours currently offer. It would be great if Video Club was capable of...

1. Allowing a user (or Admins) to EDIT existing video article information and perhaps also edit and change the existing thumbnail pic, like they can when first adding the video to the club, that would be an excellent function ..

2. An option (perhaps in AdminCP settings?) to have TAGS shown or not shown in the mod's video display screen. In my opinion, they clutter the display and my experience has been a lot of our members would never use them, as they don't even use the ones in vBulletin, so it would be great if we could turn them off being displayed at all.

Thanks again for all your work... :up:

Regards,
Doug

Thank you very much for your continous support Doug. Really appreciated. Soon I'll PM you details, as I'm planing to start operating my site.

To be honest I just changed the lists there. Haven't tested PMs but as they were working fine at my Media Gallery mod, I'm sure that they'll work fine on this mod too.

hmmm...... There is a legal problem here which I need to read more in depth. Actually the original code was supporting Add/Edit so I did extra work to remove the Edit code. The problem is that providers does not allows any data modifications. They asked users to keep same title, description etc, as they count it copyright of the original poster.

This can be done. I'll add it.

You welcome Doug and once again thank you. I wish all the best to veterans there :)

You're welcome Chris .. :)

We do not want members uploading a bunch of crap, so we do want to control and moderate which groups can upload and which can't.

Ok, I just started testing the PM function and it doesn't seem to work as designed...

I had a user called "tester" who uploaded a YouTube video just fine. It told him (message quickly flashed by) it was being submitted for approval before posting and returned to the main screen. Just an idea.. the message that it's being submitted for approval comes and goes so fast, I think there's going to be a lot of problems with people who can't read it quick enough and as a result, when they don't see there video on the main screen, they'll keep uploading it over and over again, thinking the previous upload didn't work. How about a HUGE message (admin phase configurable?) where it STOPS, they read it and then have to hit enter to go on... or, something like that?

Now to the main problem....

The designated user ID (default was userid 1 but we changed it to 31098), who is supposed to receive notices and moderate, never sees anything indicating there's a video to approve?

I even checked user ID 1 (Admin) to see if it went there and no, it didn't?

The original uploader called "tester" sees his video in his "My Videos" area, but not on the main screen, so I know the uploaded video is there someplace. By the way, you should mark videos in the "My Videos" area as "Waiting for Approval to Post", or something like that, so the original uploader knows it's status and it's still waiting for approval.

I've attached the Usergroup settings for the uploader, who can do everything shown, except moderate and they must have videos approved.

By the way, as an aside... the Admin Usergroup has ALL boxes checked, yet they can freely upload without having to ge approval from anyone, so I don't think that setting, by accident or design, is work the way you want?

Hope this helps figure out where the issue is..

Regards,
Doug

Redirection messages have the same speed all over all vB functions. Don't know if the delay can be changed somewhere in 1000's vB settings, but I can't change the delay.

What I can do is to add one more setting and admin selects if he wants redirection or halt pages. Halt page means a static page where the user must clicks a link to continue. Maybe it's sound better but believe me is frustated for most users especially if they want to add many videos.


I don't think that any vB action which needs approval (eg normal post) has any type of notification. Moderators are responsible to visit ModCP from time to time to check what is under upproval. In anycase is not a big deal to add such notification. Just keep in mind that the id that you'll setup to be an active id. Moste webmasters are registering a system account to control such "noreply" messages and never check them.

I'll check it, but I'm almost sure that it works. The video appears in "My Videos" page with remark: Awaiting Approval (red color). The phrase to change the text is: videoclub_unapproved

They're correct.
Users who have permission to Moderate don't need approval even if the setting "Needs Approval" is on. And this is logic. Why I (as Moderator) need to approve my own videos? Is it possible to reject it? :)

Hmmm.. I didn't know that ... it's going to be a real problem if users don't understand that their video won't appear until approved. I'll leave it with you to think about... ;)

I'm confused.. :confused:

I thought that the designated video moderator received a PM that there was a video waiting for approval? If that's not the case and it's supposed to appear under Moderation (like posts and threads), well, I can't see it under the designated moderator's area anywhere, but I'll go back and look. ;)

Understood now... makes sense .. :up:

Regards,
Doug

ok .. :)

Here's the "My Videos" screen of the user "tester" who uploaded a video that's waiting for approval, but has yet to be approved by anyone...

I don't see anywhere it shows that it's waiting for approval and won't appear until it gets approved?

Am I missing something?

Regards,
Doug

ps: By the way, what does "hide" mean and what's its purpose?

I'll check it after a short rest, but at least the code is correct. The restriction in query for what videos to show is only $userid
There is no other restriction like in normal listings: approved=1 AND hidden=0

Sometimes users may want to hide the video for their own reasons. Instead to delete and republish it (which means loosing all view, votes, comments), he can hide it from public view (owner and moderators can still see it with direct link), and then they can activate it again.

Seems that there is something missing from the template, and not from the code. Below the icons must be a line with the status: Active, Hidden, Awaiting Approval. So it's an easy fix.

:up::up::up:

Now, I'm still looking for where the designated moderator "approves" the uploaded video.. :D

I've checked all moderated areas, inboxes and the main Video Club page, but I see nowhere does that moderator get a message to review and click on something to approve a video.

Thanks again.. :)

Regards,
Doug

Maybe if you look at the most designated moderator area "Modcp"? :)

Wow!!! :eek:

I've never used that before and I can honestly say I would have never found it... :D

Why does this option not appear under the AdminCP area and for example, the options for Video Club that appear there?... or, under any of the "Moderation" approvals either in the AdminCP or on an Admin's "settings" page where they can also be approved... not important, but just curious as to the design reasoning...

Thanks.. :)

Regards,
Doug

Chris.. I can confirm that video review and approval, followed by a PM to the member who uploaded it, appears to work fine.. :up:

Separate thought on new features....

I can visualize a lot of members posting their videos to the wrong category....

If there could be a way for the Admin to EDIT and change the category a video was posted to, that would go a long way to help keep the Video Club library organized well. Other that that, I don't see a way of correcting mistakes like that ...

Regards,
Doug

There are no hooks (places to add code) in Admincp and Modcp so the "First comes, first serves, last comes, last serves" exists :)

In my old sites I was having this page in frontend. But as most user wanted to follow vb standards, I moved it to modcp.

I'll see what I can do for this. Maybe in modcp when moderator approves them to be able to edit the category.

Thanks.... :)

The best place would be at the main Video Library home screen where an Admin would notice that a video is clearly in the wrong category and he could then simply move it to the right one .. :up:

Regards,
Doug

The text was there in previous versions but missing in the new template style. Import the attached file.

Thanks :up:

I'll test it when I get a chance and let you know if there's any problems ...

Regards,
Doug

Chris... :)

You still have a problem importing videos with special characters....

You fixed the one where the Youtube description had "xxxx" quotations marks around words in it, but now any description that has a ' (apostrophe) seems to break the title import.

ie: Curator's Corner: British SMLE comes out just as Curator

Regards,
Doug

Upload video.php and import product-videoclub.xml