Advanced Navbar Links
 

Author: Andrew Harmor
Version: 2.0.2
File Edits: 0
Template Edits: 2
Difficulty: Easy


Description:
You can add links or multiple menus to the navbar quickly through a form. Specify which usergroups can see each link via the permissions system.


F.A.Q.
Q: Why aren't the links showing?
A: Edit the link in your Admin CP and check the usergroup permissions

Q: All the links I made from the last version are gone
A: Go into phpmyadmin and select your vbulletin database.
Browse the table named "custom_droplinks". Change all the "catid's" with 0 to 1.
Go into your ACP --> Advanced Navbar Links --> Modify/Delete The links should show up under the first category. You can edit the links from here and select a different category to place it in.

Q: How do I get the links to appear on vBAdvanced?
A: Go into your ACP --> vBa CMPS --> Default Settings
Look for "Portal Output Global Variables". Add the following into the text area.


If you install this mod please press the "Install" button.

--Change Log--
1.0.0 - Initial Release

1.0.1 - took out the code that automatically added HTML to the navbar. I thought having it do it automatically was cool but can be annoying because you can't easily customize the class or placement

2.0.0 - Added the functionality to add multiple drop down menus

2.0.1 - Added missing table prefixes

Some of you may know this hack from 3.5.x. When I first created this hack I slowly worked out the bugs. Let us pray that this hack runs smoothly on the 3.6 branch.
In the thread for the 3.5.x hack some members demanded usergroup permissions, seperators, and multiple drop down boxes. Well I didn't know how to go about it. I did however deliver on the usergroup permissions a few days ago but I have a feeling they're not going to be as excited as much as if I released closer to when they asked for it.

Nice. :)

nice feature will install :)

Very nice! Thank you... :)

I would like to improve this hack by adding user defined seperators to the drop down box.
Please read this thread

I do not need help with with the seperators anymore because I have figured out how to do it.

What you can do is create a seperator and apply usergroup permissions to it.
So you could create a seperator called "Staff Links" and only allow admin, s-mods, and mods see it.
Then under the seperator have a link to the "Admin CP" and only allow admins to see the link.
I'll try to illustrate it for you people

[Staff Links] <-- Only viewable by Admins, S-Mods, and Mods
[Admin CP] <-- Only viewable by Admins
[ModCP] <-- Only viewable by S-Mods and Mods
[Fun Links] <-- Viewable by everyone
[Arcade] <-- Viewable by everyone except guests and banned users

I am coding everything I need to and I'll ship it out as soon as I'm sure it works correctly.

thanks a bunch been looking for a way to do this kind of thing!

i am running beta 4 and i got nothing :( i have a "extra" button and then and "extra" header but no links.....i added them but they do not show

Both "Stand Alone" and "Drop Down" links aren't showing?

mine either .. :(

Update:

It does show on the nav on the forums but not on the main vbadvanced page.. hmm

BTW can you assign multiple drop downs and stack links under them?

You can only have one drop down menu but I'm planning on adding multile drop down menus as soon I figure out how to do seperators.

So they both work on the forums though?

Try this

didn't appear to be working properly in 3.6 rc1

Just got the drop down "Extras" on navbar and nothing showing in AdminCP.

Seems fine with RC1 but links wont open in a new window even when checked to.
Any Ideas?
BTW nice addition, Thanks.
Clicks Install.

You migt have forgot to upload "cpnav_custom_links.xml" to includes/xml/


When you click on the background the link is on it'll open on the same page. I don't know how to get around that.

When I Uploaded The Files Then Added The XML Plugin It Kept Putting A Drop Down List Called 'Extras' In The Nav Bar Which Cant Be Edited Or Removed

It's supposed to. That's where the links will go.

Really love this one so much so i have nominated it for Mod Of The Month

Everything works fine for me except the Extra dropdown.
Its not on the Modify/Delete page. :-/

I followed all instructions. Any ideas?

the option to open links in a new window isn't working properly for me, and also sometimes when i click the links i've added it logs me out...but not always...

i'd like one like this only it creates a new navbar below the current on where i could add links and drop down menu's. that would be awsome ^_^

I can't find from where to add custom links in the navbar.

how do i change teh extra text? for the drop down menu?

Search in the phrases.

which phrases ?

i have searched in the templates and the product manager code i cant quite find it?

I would personally like to use this to manage all the links on my navbar.... not just one "extra" dropdown. the ability to create more than one dropdown would be much nicer.

I just installed this hack. Very nice. Thank you!

Same here...the option to open the link in a new window doesn't work. It just opens the link in the same window.

This is because vBulletin added something to one of their js files.

Read this thread
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=191493

Is this supposed to auto-edit the navbar template for you? - the install instructions don't indicate this... im using an old version from vB3.5.4 which was working... untill i reverted the template of course... then i thought good... the install instructions don't say about editing the navbar template... i'll upload... still nothing, i'll re add the code below to my navbar...but im sure i saw no drop downs...only the link to start it... maybe i need to refresh something...

-b6

I see that the template does get added automagically... my problem was permissions and not uploading the latest files (doh) then for some reason the 'link_perms' field wasn't being added to my database and causing errors when i try to enter permission values for links... added that missing field (it is in your installer but dunno why it didn't work) and alls ok now... and working on my vBa CMPS (with added global variables)

-b6

Is this something that can be resolved?

Sorry everyone but I've been distracted by another hack I'm working on.
I may have this hack removed until it's been tested better.

ctrl-alt-del,
I don't know how to get around it.

Thanks Andrew.

By the way, the install version says v1.6.0 when installed as opposed to the listed 1.0.0.

Hi!
I really like the mod... if it worked! :) It's work perfectly with the Default skin. But I'm using another. Why doesn't it work with that one?

Thank you

Hi thank you for your hack, i have installed, it is working succesfully, but i want to open my links in target frames, how can i do that?

I have installed it and it works for 80%.

When i add links in the EXTRA dropdown who are normally in my regular menu and i erase them in the Navbar template then i loose everything. As the extra as some more links (buttons)

And please how can we change extra...


By the way i really love this mod..:cool:

Search for "Extras" in phrases. You can change it from there.

is this project continued?
i'd would be fine if a (line) seperator or toppic (no link) could be entered.
i solved the seperator with an < hr > and an # as link, but it doesn't look fine.
better would be e.g. a simple blue box with text as seperator - like "quick links" in here on top (know what i mean)...

a looks aweful and i can't add enough code, cause it's cut of :(

cu,
thomas

(sorry my bad english)