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Ultimate Side Columns 2.2
Version: 2.2, by peterska2 peterska2 is offline
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Category: Miscellaneous Hacks - Version: 3.7.0 Rating:
Released: 04-04-2008 Last Update: 05-15-2008 Installs: 659
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Ultimate Side Columns
By Kerry-Anne www.peterska2.co.uk

Welcome to Ultimate Side Columns 2.2 !

USC 2.2 has now been released!!!!

Introduction

Following the success of the left and right side column modifications, and building on their weaknesses, the Ultimate Side Columns system was born.

Ultimate Side Columns (USC) is your one stop shop for all your side columns needs. It is an easy to configure, all in one solution.

USC 2.0 was born through the evolution and bug fixing of USC 1.0 for vBulletin 3.6 and is for vBulletin 3.7.0 RC1 and later only. It is not supported with earlier versions and may not work with them.

Features

USC 2.0 is fully customizable, can use conditions and variables (not available in USC 1.0), has greater flexibility in where it can be omitted from (after requests received), and contains new functionality of both independently collapsible columns and user defined custom links to be displayed on a per user basis in the column location of the administrators choosing.

A maximum of 20 blocks spread over the two columns are available at this time. However, if more are required then an expansion pack will be provided. The blocks can be reordered and moved between the templates with ease through simple template edits.

USC 2.2 Change Log:
Fixed bug with profile.php?do=editattachments
Added All Pages options

USC 2.1 Change Log:
Fixed blank page caused by missing template in the XML
Added compatibility with 3.7.0 Stable/Gold
Manual Template Edit instructions added to package
Enhanced the display page choices to allow exact selection of the pages where USC is to be displayed
Added usergroup permissions in addition to the global options for viewing the left column, viewing the right column, and using the custom contents block.

USC 2.1 has additional files. You need to upload the files first BEFORE importing the product

Upgrading from USC 2.0
Upload the contents of the upload folder, except the admincp directory, then import the XML.

Go to vBOptions > USC Options and set the display pages using the new options
Go to Usergroups > Usergroup Manager and set the permissions for each usergroup as desired. By default no permissions are given to any usergroups.

Upgrading from USC 1.0

USC 2.0 has been rewritten from the ground up and therefore all the blocks have been moved from the settings into the templates. Therefore, a unique upgrade script has been provided which must be run before importing the new product. Importing the new product first will result in the loss of your existing USC contents.

The upgrade script is located in the admincp directory after uploading the USC files and is ran by pointing your browser to admincp/usc_upgrade.php

Full upgrade instructions are included in the upgrade readme file in the zip.

Installation Instructions

Download the zip, unzip it and upload the contents of the upload folder to your forum directory. Import the product, all done.

Full instructions are included in the install readme in the zip.

Support

This modification has limited support only and is therefore flagged as unsupported. Support will be given when possible although it is always preferable when users of USC support each other. This was very successful with USC 1.0 and therefore is continued with USC 2.0

If you have any other combinations of pages that you would like to see available for the column options, please post them in the support thread ensuring that you add the title "USC Page Combination Request" to your post, or use this as the first line of your post ensuring that it is in bold text. This is very specific as due to the limited nature of support and time, the support thread will only be quickly skimmed through and therefore requests may be missed if it is not clear what they are.


The screenshots attached to this post and the next one show a range of pages with a range of column combinations. They are not labeled but they are pretty self explanatory.

Enjoy USC 2.0.

Kerry-Anne


PLEASE NOTE: This modification is unsupported. You may not receive a reply right after posting. Please try and help each other out.



Problems with your side columns not showing?
For your side columns to show, you need to update your usergroup permissions from the usergroup manager for each usergroup

Problems with errors in your vBOptions?
Point your browser to admincp/index.php?do=buildbitfields then try again

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Old 05-09-2008, 01:15 PM
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can someone maybe create a "Dummies Guide to..."? i have it installed but don't know what to do now.
Yes I have this installed and don't know how you put content in, also in options, the allow user to add content, does that mean any users can put in content for the whole forum to see or is this just for their own blogs, if it for their own blogs this would be great. Also I tried allowing the user to ad content option to see if I could add content through usercp but when I clicked the link in usercp it went to pretty much a page that showed nothing. Also if I got this to work out one day, I would like that it didn't show the 'your custom content' link if it was disabled (not visible) to users would be great, as it looks like they are missing out on something if says you do not have permission to access this link
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Old 05-09-2008, 10:47 PM
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Hi guys,

I followed the exact installation instructions explained but I can't get the columns to show. Is anyone having the same problem or knows what's going on?

Here's what I exactly did.
  • Uploaded usc_cp.php to the main forum directory.
  • Went to Manage Products (Add/Import Product) and Imported product-ka_ultimate_sidecolumns_2-0.xml
  • Searched for usc_block templates and added a few rows to some of them
  • Went to Ultimate Side Columns Options and made sure left and right columns were enabled (they were).

I don't know why nothing is showing up. I followed the instructions words by word and have never really had problems installing mods in the past.
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Old 05-09-2008, 10:55 PM
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Fixed it! turns out I hadn't changed the header template from vb6.4 and therefore $ad_location[ad_header_end] wasn't there.

Well anyway I hope the steps I posted above can come in handy to people having problems installing this modification.

Thanks Kerry-Anne :-)
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Old 05-09-2008, 11:21 PM
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Is this ready to go for 3.7 Gold yet Kerry-Anne?

I am anxious to install but I was waiting for Gold.
Just doing updates now. It will def work when I'm done although it will work now apart from the custom links section (which won't work anyway due to a bug in version 2.0).

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Is there any way to show the columns only to certain usergroups?

Thanks for the update!
Looking into this for version 2.1

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Yes I have this installed and don't know how you put content in, also in options, the allow user to add content, does that mean any users can put in content for the whole forum to see or is this just for their own blogs, if it for their own blogs this would be great. Also I tried allowing the user to ad content option to see if I could add content through usercp but when I clicked the link in usercp it went to pretty much a page that showed nothing. Also if I got this to work out one day, I would like that it didn't show the 'your custom content' link if it was disabled (not visible) to users would be great, as it looks like they are missing out on something if says you do not have permission to access this link
The blank page issue is resolved in version 2.1 (I missed a couple of templates from the XML - oooops). Permissions are being investigated at the moment.

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Fixed it! turns out I hadn't changed the header template from vb6.4 and therefore $ad_location[ad_header_end] wasn't there.

Well anyway I hope the steps I posted above can come in handy to people having problems installing this modification.

Thanks Kerry-Anne :-)
Glad you got it sorted
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Old 05-09-2008, 11:22 PM
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Is there a way to make it so that it does not take up the entire forum home, instead just up to the last forum?
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Old 05-09-2008, 11:36 PM
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it can be done using manual template edits but it would require that it is set for forumhome only.
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it can be done using manual template edits but it would require that it is set for forumhome only.
Yea, that's what I am looking to do. Would I manually edit the Forumhome template?
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Yeah

Hold off for version 2.1 and I'll make sure I include the manual template edit details in the package this time
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The collapsible icon pushes the whole column to the right in Firefox but does not in IE7. It's not a big issue but thought I'd let you know.

You can see what I mean by visiting my forum using Firefox:
http://www.forum.smartcanucks.ca/
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Info about version 2.1

Version 2.1 is currently being coded and tested. The following items are being addressed in this version:

Bug Fixes
  • Missing template for custom contents page added
  • Manual template edit instructions added
  • Updates to run smoothly with 3.7.0

Changes to functions
  • The list of pages to display/omit the columns are now checkboxes for easy configuration
  • Usergroup permissions added to set if the usergroup can view the left column, view the right column, and use the custom blocks
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