Profile Enhancements - Personal Notepad

This is a port of my previous Personal Notepad hack for vBulletin 3.5, with some added features and modifications that had been requested. It now makes use of template hooks and is placed in a more convenient location for users.

This hack will add a personal notepad for your members - a feature you may know from for example Invision Power Board. For short, members will be able to edit the content of their own notepad as they want, storing in it whatever they might feel like.

1 automatic template edit
1 product to install

FEATURES

- A notepad in members' main user CP area where they can type in whatever notes they may want to take down and save them
- Notepad can be resized
- Javascript for allowing users to see when they have exceeded the character limit
- Admin CP options (turn on/off, maximum input length, liquid/fixed width, width of fixed-width notepad, usergroups allowed to use notepad)
- No manual template edits
- Fully phrased for easy translation

INSTALLATION

1. Import product-personal_notepad.xml through the Admin CP.
2. Edit the Personal Notepad options in the vBulletin options if desired. (It is automatically turned on upon installation, so if you want to start using it right away without worrying about the options, you can.)
3. There is no 3. You're done. Go inform your members of the addition.

VERSION HISTORY

3.1: Saved space in liquid-width notepad by putting character counter and textbox size changers in the same line, phrased some stuff that was forgotten and added usergroup limitations in the admin options.
3.0: Tweaks for fitting better with the look of vBulletin, cached template, Javascript counter for character limit, made notepad collapsible, added version history.
2.0: Ported to 3.6, added resizing function and admin CP options.
1.0: Initial release.

[TheLastSuperman]

Slice & Dice the mod, find what you need and post in a forum using conditionals....

WHAT?!?!? At least I let you know it CAN be done































I'll look into it later, send me a reminder PM as I'm swamped but I have this installed on a 3.6 board and forgot about it until now so going to put on my 3.8 & tinker a bit

S-MAN

[Warlord]

Just checking in to see if you'd gotten a chance to take a look at this for the Staff forum I mentioned.

[TheLastSuperman]

Tinkering now but like you said it was meant for individual users, admincp has the notepad feature but forum based for multiple users might be tricky.

[Warlord]

Did you make any progress on this, Supes?

[TheLastSuperman]

Not on getting this to work for all admins however I found something, rather busy now but it is a message box you can save notes in, all you would have to do is throw up a spare DB then embed the code in the template(s) you want it in and show it to the admin usergroup via <if> statement that would also hide it to everyone else. That would be a quick way but later sometime I can modify it to be in your vb database. Let me know if your up to the task I'll forward the links and the files I have DL'd already, if your not then unfortunately it will have to wait however all of it has instructions .

S-MAN

[Warlord]

Originally Posted by TheLastSuperman

Not on getting this to work for all admins however I found something, rather busy now but it is a message box you can save notes in, all you would have to do is throw up a spare DB then embed the code in the template(s) you want it in and show it to the admin usergroup via <if> statement that would also hide it to everyone else. That would be a quick way but later sometime I can modify it to be in your vb database. Let me know if your up to the task I'll forward the links and the files I have DL'd already, if your not then unfortunately it will have to wait however all of it has instructions .

S-MAN

Yeah, if you wouldn't mind forwarding it to me I think I might be able to swing that. Thanks! You can email it to me at steven@projectfanboy.com if you'd like. Thanks again.

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by Warlord

Yeah, if you wouldn't mind forwarding it to me I think I might be able to swing that. Thanks! You can email it to me at steven@projectfanboy.com if you'd like. Thanks again.

No problem! It will be later today when I get home as all the files and bookmarks are @ home on my computer so hang tight and you'll have it .

S-MAN