How do I...

Just by playing with the board I figured a few things out but I like any other newbie have questions.

1 - When someone goes to post a message it automatically checks the Send me e-mail box! Is there a way to disable this?

2 - How can I add tables to the forums (not involving the Header & Footer)?

3 - If there is a hack for me to upload more than 1 Smilie in Control Panel at a time could you please direct me that way?

4 - How can I take out the Moderator section on the First Forum / Category page?

5 - How do I take out the "Views" section in a Forum?

6 - How do I add vB code ([center])? I tried the little manual thing, but it didn't work!

These are my questions! My vB is located http://www.u-a-n.com/forums

Originally posted by AMG
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1 - The UBB import did import the messages but it didn't import the Styles the smilies or anything important!

2 - I have all the smilies uploaded already! I just want a way that i can give them all codes :whatever: more than 1 at a time.

3 - I want to completly remove the "views" column, what template would I edit?

4 - I want to completly remove the "Moderators column" on the first page "index.php"

1. Anything Important? Geeze...that IS the message board, dude! The styles and smilies are fluff, it's the information that you need to keep.

2. Sorry, that's how you have to do it, although, isn't 300 smilies a little excessive? Doesn't that crash some peoples machines? Anyway, if you have a list of what you have and add them in alphebetical order, it doesn't really take that much time to add smilies. I added ours in a matter of minutes and we have about 40.

3.Forumdisplaybit template

4. forumhome template

1 - The messages aren't as important as the styles and smilies! The users can go and make messages all ay long! It cost me money to sit there and add codes to 436 smilies!

2 - 436 Smilies D A M N thats alot. You don't understand, my board is an interactive anime site where ppl come to talk about anime and such Pokemon Digimon Dragon Ball Z Gundam Wing Sailor Moon! There are 251 Pokemon plus the badges the characters and the 60+ Smile like smilies. The there are more to come with the other Anime Smilies!

3 - It wouldn't crash any machine if it was designed similar to the UBB! Make an HTML Smilie document and put so many on this page for pokemon then for regular smilies for Dbz for digi and so forth! Plus there is a smilie limit!

4 - I am having a small problem with the way vB codes messages! when i post a smlie code it translates it to an img vb code! so when I edit i have to re-insert the codr :whatever: is there any way to change that!

5 - How do I add codes like... i want [ center ], to center text?

1) Sorry.. Obviously your system priorities are different than most. At least Jelsoft provided an import feature in version 1.0. UBB is on 5.XX and what do they import?

5) Again I would like to point you to a good source of information on vBulletin, the user manual.

http://vbulletin.com/manual/control.html

I don't do this to be mean or degrading but I honestly think it would be helpful. I have only been using vBulletin since August and learned a lot. I started with the User Manual and went through each and every option and each and every template until I understood them. I took me a while, probably 20 hours over a week but has saved me so much time since then.

Since that time, I have rebuilt our control panel and added about 15 unique features to it, including a script from this forum to check server status and another which I wrote that acts like a simple ISQL interface so I have direct access to the database. Taking the time to learn the system a little will be very beneficial in the long run.

P.S. email me and I can write you a script that will import all 436 smilies in exchange for this Book shipped to my home. I figure it would take me about 30 minutes to create the script if I had the information like filenames and what codes you wanted to use.

Originally posted by Susan
Doesn't that crash some peoples machines?[/B]

Hey Susan! We determined that it only crashes on those people using Explorer v4.72 for their browser. Dozens of people had that problem and once they upgraded, it worked fine!

Hey, you need to come back to OUH - Chris and I miss you!

I think you mean Netscape v4.72

1 - My priorities are straight but I had very FEW messages. My board was new becuz of the resets of my server so the messages were lost. Had I had more messages then yes it would have been great that they import.

2 - Who are you to judge my motives!

3 - I did and do apologize for coming off badly to start with but that is only becuz I am losing lotza Cash by screwing around on this!

4 - On the upside you guyz do reply alot faster then the ubbdev! Which makes it alot easier for me!

5 - Just becuz UBB doesn't have an import utility doesn't mean that it is a bad Board. How many of you can create a CGI+PERL scripted board that customizeable!

6 - The vB would be the best of all the board if only the control panel was a little more advanced! Maybe on the newer versions, when I went to first install it the menu lettering was all "bunchedtogetherlikethis" it was hard to read!

7 - I thank you all for your help and support though you are probably getting tired of me coming here lol.

I want a modz opinion on the desin integration I added!

If you look at my forum front page te post topic page and the Forum page tell me what you think of the changes! http://www.u-a-n.com/forums