[The Rocketeer]

Originally Posted by Mooff

thanks


1.
Yes, that is possible. Actually this is kinda running on our board. We are using a hybrid system where a) a maximum of 2 articles per section are added into the slider b) tournaments (from our self coded tournament system) gain a value-bonus c) an extra query in a special database checks whether the article should be in there definitely or not at all d) articles are not allowed to be older than 40 days. All points are interconnected via the value function and it probably will be extended if the vbseo like system we activated today is used sensible by our users.

What a board needs there is highly dependend on the board itself. So i won't add something like this as default behaviour. In addition if you just want 'those' articles and nothing else the database query can be optimized for that need.

Long story short, as said in the first topic. If someone wants a customized query i need to know what exactly they want and i can try to come up with some code for it. No promises though. =) (these special queries will then be linked in the FAQ in post two, a category based one is allready in there, so as a work around you could use that one and add the articles you need in there, or remove them when the time comes for that).


2. The slider is blazing IF it can load all data out of the cms cache system - and i can't speed that one up*. Running the database query and saving pictures and rebuilding the output is not that fast. But, that does not have to be done often. Considering point 1, you want only articles in there which you specify in the code, you don't need it to update at all. So set the cache time for the slider to over 9000 (well or more). And rebuild it (clear cms cache) every time you change the article ids.


3. As for preview pictures. I won't comment on that one until i know what vbulletin changed in 4.1.5 (jira said they are doing something to preview pictures).


*well not in this addon anyway

Thanks Mooff,


1. So yes, as for the customized query, What I am wanting is not a category based one but maybe an option with a YEs / No and a box somewhere in the Admin CP so we can login and click that option, set it to yes(?) and enter article ID's numbers with commas (,) eg, 178,162,78 and it will only show those articles.

2. Yes, exactly, I want to spesify the articles that should be displayed on the slider, so I dont need it to automatically update anything as I will probably do it myself once every couple of weeks depending on which article I want to feature. So some instructions on that would be great, as we can probably cut down some database querys etc.

3. No proiblem we will see that later on,

But at the moment the first and second feature is what I and a lot of others could really use to define what articles we want to display manually. Hope you can look into it and post some instructions on your second post / F.A.Q for us. Really looking forward to this, so please let me know or if I sounded a bit confusing.

Thanks again and do let me know