Display Options Above Threads - as seen on vbulletin.org
 

This template mod, updated from my 3.6.x version, will streamline and relocate the "Display Options" dropdown menus to the top of your threads list on forumdisplay, as seen here at vbulletn.org in the modification areas.

As part of this move, we'll also change the look of the "Active Users"/Moderators panel remaining at the bottom of the page. ('Before' and 'after' screenshots are below.)

Note: In the 3.6.x version, there were two different versions of this mod -- the extra one being for those forums using the excellent Thread Prefixes mod by Mystics. Now that vB 3.7.0 has prefixes on its own, those extra set of instructions are no longer necessary.

Important: If you've installed or applied other mods that have altered the forumdisplay template, you may need to adjust the instructions accordingly.

I hope this mod is helpful! As always, many thanks to vbulletin.org for the inspiration, not to mention years of providing an amazingly helpful community.

reserved !! :)

lets try it.

thx for ur effort

thanks!!!
nice hack

Kira vey thaks nice.

Yep you're right. I didn't see that. Now it works. You'll notice that I've deleted two small things inside the modification which are really not necessary. So then it looks now we'd like to have ;)

Thanks again, but it's still not quite right I'm afraid! What do you think wasn't necessary?
Because unless I'm reading your XML wrong, your replacements eliminate the announcebits section completely, which means announcements won't show up. Plus, you still didn't take away the extra ID = threadslist from the table code above the announcebits section, which means the thread editing will still not work.

Here's the section I'm talking about:

The searchstr must include this:

And the replacestr should start with this:

(Obviously this isn't the whole replacement code.) Note the removed id="threadslist' in the replacement stuff, and the inclusion of $announcebits. These are necessary otherwise announcements and inline thread title editing won't work.

I really do appreciate the help, Mike! I wish I could create TMS files on my own but I'm no php coder by any stretch. Plus I don't use TMS yet! However, I know the above stuff is important for the modification to work correctly.

Damn, seems to be not being my day :( I never would have guessed. Probaby I have mixed somethings. Never try to make some changes when your Editor does have 12 Template codes next to each other working. Yes you're absolutely right because I forgot the most important. Now I have fiixed it and it works. Gee, what a terrible day. Thank you, Kira :) You just made my day :D

BTW: I just saw your BDay. That's almost the same like mine of just 1 day difference :)

thanks for this updated release. The 3.6.x version wasn't working with 3.7!

Thanks for the TMS File ===> Mike-D (alter Freund:D)

Now I'm not sure what version to use. Your first post still says version 1.0, although there is talking about changes afterwards? Is it now an xml-product import, or do I still have to edit templates?

Hi TCB. Sorry, the changes mentioned in my OP are comparing this to the original 3.6.x version. This new 3.7.0 version is unchanged and the instructions are in the text file attached to the OP.

This is indeed a Template Modification, so yes, you need to manually edit a template (forumdisplay in this case). The instructions are pretty easy though! Shouldn't take you more than five - ten minutes, tops. :)

However, if you use the Template Modification System product addon, you can use the xml link up in Mike D's post. Please note that I can't verify that this works because I don't personally have TMS installed. (I'm weird in that I kinda enjoy modifiying the templates myself, since I think it helps me understand what changes are being made to the system.)

Let me know if you have any problems. Thanks and good luck!

Oh, great.. thanks a lot. The option to put this 'filter' and 'sort' option on top (like yours) or at the bottom of your forum (default) should be standard in vbulletin. In the meantime, me and my members will enjoy this modification :D

One thing I notied betweenthe before and after was the label "Display Options" Is there a way to slip that back in there?

Thanks TCB! Glad it's useful, and I agree, this placement seems much more logical than the default -- especially when there are lots of threads within a forum, which means the filtering options are easily missed since they're all the way at the bottom of the screen.

Hostboard: Absolutely! In step #3 of my instructions, you'd just place the following:

Into the code wherever you want. (By default this phrase is "Display Options".)

For example, in the "after" sample image, you can see the area that says "Showing threads 1 of 2." To change this to "Display Options: Showing threads 1 of 2" you'd go to Step #3 of my instructions and look for:

and change this to:

Does this make sense? Another option might be to place the "Display Options:" text to the left of all the dropdown filter/sort menus. To do this, again using the third step of my instructions (or if you've already installed the template mod you can just search in your edited template):

Search for:

Replace with:

(You might want to surround the display options phrase with <span class="smallfont"> and </span> if the text looks too big.)

Let me know if this works for you, or if I'm not clear enough.

Tried Mikes pluggin but I get "Invalid File Specified" when I try to upload it.

Thank you so much for this!!! Did I miss the announcebits in the mod template changes because I didn't see that added back with the mod changes.

Also is there a way to search for both date AND poster at the same time with this mod?

Hi Hostboard. The file Mike-D attached isn't a plugin, per se. It works only if you have the Template Modification System addon installed. So if you don't have that installed yet, you should try that first! Or you can just use my instructions to do this manually. I promise it's really really simple! :)

You're welcome, YLP1! Do you mean in the original instructions attached in my OP? Sure, it's in there -- right at the start of the replacement code in Step #3, in the third line or so. You should see:

(That's only the start of the replacement code, not the whole thing. Cut for brevity's sake!)

Hm, well, except for the prefix filters, these are really just sorting options, not searches exactly. I'm pretty sure you can only sort by one thing at a time.

Basically whatever you can do with the standard vBulletin "Display Options" is available here -- it's just the layout that's changed.

Installed, thank you :)

for some reasons, after I installed this mod, everytime I start a new thread, the cursor is already in center position and all the texts are also center as I typed. But after hit submit new thread, all the texts are aligned left as normal.

Can someone please help me fix this?

Whoa, you've stumped me. I can't begin to fathom why or how a few template changes solely in the FORUMDISPLAY template could affect anything on newthread.php.

Did you make the changes manually (via my instructions) or did you use the TMS file?

Also, can you show me an example forum (assuming it's public)? I'll have to sign up for your forum and give it a try.

Sorry about this. The only thing I can guess is that this is conflicting with some other mod, although again I'll be darned if I can imagine how.

sorry kira... I think it's the style, not your hack. I installed another style and didn't see that happened. So, I uninstalled the buged style. It's all good. Thanks for this.

Love this mod, But here is a question, would it be possible to include at the top "forum Jump" after the prefix search.

how can we have the prefix sort in alphabetical order? Thanks.

anyway to move currently active users and moderators column on top as well?

Can we make this appear only in certain forum/subforum? This is a cool hack!!

Really cool hack! Thanks! (http://forum.fnnation.com/forumdisplay.php?f=58)

It would be cool if we can also show a list of clickable prefixes just below, something like:

superb - thanks

Thanx for the share.

Jacquii.

Installed and Marked! Thanks!

I like when somebody writes his codes accurate with all tabs.

Great job kira. Keep going.

Thank You ..

thanks for this simple but useful mod!

thanks :)

Maybe author of this hack want to upgrade it?:))

The upgrade is: Add option in forum edit page to enable hack on up or down of the page?

I want to thank the author for this wonderful addition. its a great help when you have a ton of junk in your topic area, and only wish to see the past few days or so.

Again thank you very much!!

Did anyone try it on 3.8? Any issues?

To answer my own post, followed the instructions and works fine. No issues so far.

I receive: "Invalid File Specified" when I attempt to install the XML

There is no XML to install :confused: