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Originally Posted by anoob

My question is, when I hold my mouse over, activity, longevity & today, the popup displays the appropiate information. However when I hold my mouse over posts, all I get is the letter "S", any ideas what I may of done wrong?

Also, is there any way to control where this appears, like can it be on the left side, rather than the right side?

The "S" is at the request of someone who wanted valid XHTML. Apparently, every image needs an alternate text for that. The spacer images have an alternate text of "S" (because that is the part added to the image name...). There is nothing wrong.

If you do the template edits different, the information will appear in a different place. If you look at the postbit addition, you will find that there is a core table with class="wwu002 something. You can take that table and put it whereever you'd like.

Originally Posted by 711

**EDIT** Found the activity_config_guide.txt file earlier in this thread. Any reason why this is no longer included in the download package? It is still referenced in the help popups in admincp.


Question, I would like to set the weeks reflected back even further than 10, but it is hardcoded in the admin CP. If I manually change the entry in my forum database, will this work? I would also like to raise the counted posts per day slightly.

Also, could you give any tips on more advanced tweaking of the activity rating forumula (i.e. including other variables such as reputation power, etc)? I assume this would need to be done by manually editing the plugins, correct?

Also, any plans to support vBulletin blog entries in the activity calculations?

The missing guide is an oversight. The weeks reflected is supported by a weighting array that makes more distant weeks count less than more recent weeks. While you could bypass the CP for the setting, the mod wouldn't work as you'd expect unless you also added more information to the array. Also, you'd want to just change the type of setting to text, 'lest you accidentally changed when doing a "view all settings", then save. The array in question should be in global_start, right after the function definitions; it should have "week" and "weight" in its name. You'll also need to change a calculation close under it that calculates the maximum activity value, as it's done inline rather than as a for loop.

The activity metric was designed as a complete system and has no hooks for including additional factors. Except for the Top Activity page, all activity calculation is done through a central function, so you could tweak it, though you'd probably have issues such as activity going off the scale.

I have not purchased the vBBlog addon, so I can't add support. I'm sure it's just a matter of copying the code dealing with the posts and altering the query to look at other tables.