[Ted S]

Regarding your first post, now you see why I removed my response.

After 12 years in vB I really hate it when people attribute a mod not working on their site to a mod not working at all... It's not so much the implication to me as the impact to everyone else. People see "doesn't work in 4.2" and despite many people running it in 4.2 they run screaming...

But you didn't just install the mod and scream. And I'm so use to people who do that I glanced right past your intro until I made that post that I didn't do justice understanding your investment into things. So let's get this rocking because if there's one thing I really like it's good feedback...

Originally Posted by snotek

Ok, I deleted the product, cleared the db, made sure there were no traces of it at all. Reinstalled, set it up again, re-modified the forumdisplay.php file, and this time I see an option on the forum manager that wasn't there previously.

Welcome to the world of vBulletin mods. It baffles us all but sometimes despite adding the bit and rebuilding, it just doesn't "stick"... Usually after another install [forced upgrade] or a refresh things show up.... It's complex addon system that tries to offer a lot of range without a lot of modification to the core.

It would probably help to provide a more verbose instruction set as vB has sooooo many options unless you know exactly what you're looking for it can be difficult to find.

You know that's a good point and I appreciate it. Sadly for 90% of the people who use this and my other mod [which also requires forum-level activation] the issue isn't the instructions sucking it's that they never open them to even see the big bold section about this.

I'm not trying to be overly critical, just helpful. The included install.html has broken links/images and does not explain much other than what can be figured out by having the experience of installing any other plugin.

To the prior point, we all decide where to draw our line... I've put mine more on the side of features than documents but it's an evolving point. And I can take the hint

So at this point I have a product listing forum with the modification of "ratings/reviews", I have a product review forum with a review, and I have the search and comparison "link" which points to the productforums.php file.

With regards to the product description block when adding a new product - what code can be used there? I tried bbcode and that didn't work, will it accept html? css?

Full HTML should be allowed...

In 1.3.0 this will change to light HTML for users [strong/b/em/i/ul/ol/li/br/] and most HTML for admins [no script or embeds]. Need to verify that vBulletin isn't parsing this out however.... the post generator overrides a lot of the rules I try to set.

It also seems to load the product images VERY slowly - I suspect this is due to the site they are linked from. As a possible feature enhancement why not just grab and cache those locally when setting up the product? It also appears that the "sharing" links load pretty slowly - are those being referenced off-site as well?

This is something I'd love thoughts on. The problem with uploads is that no two sites are alike and while vB has a new uploader, the process still stinks...

At this point I'm literally considering telling sites to sign up for Rackspace's CDN and pushing files too it. That's a little extreme but it would work and it's dirt cheap (like $0.10 / gb].

On the otherhand scraping or resizing a photo is slow just one off. And when importing a product list that's a huge problem... You can't do it live, it's not ideal to resize a bunch of images once and then force them to look smaller in the browser [big file size]... I'm just not sure what the solve is.