[DragonByte Tech]

1) Indeed it does

2) You can manually deploy the Shoutbox - here's the canned response:

Step 1: AdminCP -> DBTech - vBShout-> Instance Management -> [Edit].

Step 2: Change the Auto-Display Shoutbox setting to Disabled.

Step 3: Write down the the Varname setting. For the default shoutbox, it's instance1. The rest of this guide will assume you replace instance1 with the actual Varname if it is different.

Step 4: Enter the Style Manager and add either {vb:raw show.vbshout_instance1} (vB4) or {$show[vbshout_instance1]} (vB3) to the templates you wish the shoutbox to appear in.


If you wrap the variable in

<vb:if condition="$foruminfo['forumid'] == x">

(I think that's the correct variable name, check the rest of the FORUMDISPLAY template to make sure) then you can control it per-forum.

3) By default, under the navbar on forum home. It can be disabled

4) Indeed it is

5) The second link is used to import shouts from the first link

6) Some skins may not use the stylevars correctly and as such require colour changes to the tabs. There's a CSS template for this (dbtech_vbshout_colours.css).


Fillip