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Old 09-27-2004, 09:00 PM
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On my board, we have some users playing a D&D game in a specific forum setup for that purpose. I was wondering if it might be possible to set the forum up in such a way so that when specified users posted in that forum, it would show them as a different "account" or alter-ego of their choosing with a different avatar than their standard one as well.

I know this can be done by just having them register with that username and set their access to only be able to post in that forum....but I don't really want to have to do that.

I hope I made some sense...if not, let me know and I'll try to explain it better.
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Old 09-27-2004, 09:07 PM
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On my board, we have some users playing a D&D game in a specific forum setup for that purpose. I was wondering if it might be possible to set the forum up in such a way so that when specified users posted in that forum, it would show them as a different "account" or alter-ego of their choosing with a different avatar than their standard one as well.

I know this can be done by just having them register with that username and set their access to only be able to post in that forum....but I don't really want to have to do that.

I hope I made some sense...if not, let me know and I'll try to explain it better.
It can be done with <if> statements and custom profile fields. I can show you but I cannot right now since I'm at work and don't have the resources on me to show you how.
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Old 09-27-2004, 09:19 PM
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this can be done easily, yes... add a new field in the profile, so users enter their Alias, and in the forum settings, change to display that Alias when set... this can be done in 5 minutes...
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Old 09-27-2004, 09:27 PM
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this can be done easily, yes... add a new field in the profile, so users enter their Alias, and in the forum settings, change to display that Alias when set... this can be done in 5 minutes...
where would you set it to display in the forum settings? I'm wanting this to replace their username and avatar in this specific forum.
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Old 09-28-2004, 07:37 PM
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Any chance of a step by step guide. If you have the time ? I would like to use it but have very limited programming knowledge.
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Old 09-28-2004, 08:20 PM
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i'm always giving suggestions here (suggestions are free and helpful for other guys avail for jobs), but read my sig for details on job...
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Old 10-05-2004, 03:08 PM
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anyone else have any ideas....or willing to help me out....unfortunately, I (and the rest of our admin team) don't really have a ton of extra cash laying around to put into our forum, so paying for a hack unfortunately isn't quite feasable at the moment.
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Old 10-24-2004, 02:03 AM
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gonna bump this up and see if anyone else has ideas
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