Show Thread Enhancements - Profile Fields in a Postbit Dropdown

If you use this mod please hit INSTALL!

This is an evolution of my Additional Section within Profile and Dropdown within Posts mod from 3.6.x.

If you have a pre-3.7.x version installed:
UNINSTALL the old product and reverse the edits. Don't forget to revert those templates

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With this mod you can allow profile fields to show up in a dropdown below a user's name and user's title under each post. There are two ways to use this product, and each has its own plugin (and template): Dropdown - Manual (enabled by default), and Dropdown - Automated (disabled by default).

NOTE: The dropdown's title shows up as [username]'s [dropdown_title]. Yes, the 's is hardcoded into the mod. If you'd like this not to be hard coded, simply mention it after hitting install, and if enough of the users want it, I'll change it. Figured if I didn't hardcode it, someone wouldn't figure out how to add it

To edit the title:

Go to AdminCP -> Languages & Phrases -> Search in Phrases. Search for the phrase's title: [dropdown_title] (no brackets). Edit and save!

The dropdown is dependent on Profile Field 5 being filled. If the user does not have this profile field filled out, then the dropdown will not show. To edit or remove this restriction:

Go to the Dropdown Call Template. Find and edit, or remove these 2 lines of code (so that the dropdown will always show):

<if condition="$post['field5']">
...
</if>

The Plugin "Dropdown - Manual" is just like the 3.6.x version, all manual edits, but now they're in a template. No more files to manually edit Some examples of how to do this are already provided within the template.

Go to AdminCP -> Styles & Templates -> Style Manager -> [STYLE NAME]
Edit Style: Dropdown Information - Manual


To use the automated dropdown, DISABLE Plugin "Dropdown - Manual" and ENABLE Plugin "Dropdown - Automated". Simple!

"Dropdown - Automated" will automatically create the dropdown for ALL custom fields (it will skip the first 4 default ones).


To sum it up:
Plugin: Dropdown - Manual
PRO: You select which fields, what descriptions, and in what order you want the fields to show up.
CON: Lots of typing


Plugin: Dropdown - Automatic
PRO: Automatic!
CON: no real control, Profile fields 5 and up will show up in order. NOTE: if it is a HIDDEN profile field, apparently only the DATA is hidden, not the field name, so the field name will show up as well. To block a profile field from showing up in the Automatic Dropdown, check out this post.


Version History:
3.0.0 - Initial Release
3.0.1 - Added plugin to cache templates, courtesy of ssslippy.


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[Wired1]

Originally Posted by Ash Ketchum

By the way, the dropdown menu doesn't show on some members postbits if they don't use a certain profile field. Any ideas why?

Edit the Dropdown Call template and remove the conditional.

Originally Posted by gamerfu

The postbit displays = cool, but when another modification is under the username this modification disappears. WEIRD!

I will state this modification did display when another modifcation was their, but ater my migration to 3.8.x it disappears.

How can I display this modifcaton again, set it up not to disapear, or move it?

They're using the same postbit location it seems. Haven't done any 3.8.x beta testing myself, but if you disable either plugin, and the other one works, then it's probably an issue w/ the beta. Assuming as such, post on vBulletin's site and inform them that 2 plugins on the same postbit hook causes that issue.

Originally Posted by basilrath

can you change the specs to anything to suit your forum ie ................. equipment used or sports equipment if you see wat i mean ?

Yes. They're just standard profile fields.

[Saviour]

Hey, Wired!

Love the mod, friend...

I don't know if this has been covered here, but if you enable the custom title for some user groups...and they use a long title...it screws up the image under the rank in the postbit. Makes it longer than it should be.

Is this bug...if so, is there a fix?

[Wired1]

Originally Posted by Saviour

Hey, Wired!

Love the mod, friend...

I don't know if this has been covered here, but if you enable the custom title for some user groups...and they use a long title...it screws up the image under the rank in the postbit. Makes it longer than it should be.

Is this bug...if so, is there a fix?

Thanks! Could you post a pic (or a link to a post that doesn't require registration)?

[Saviour]

Sure thing...

Here ya go...

[Wired1]

I'd guess there's a div box around that area or something and the dropdown function maxes out the length by default. Just a side effect of having the dropdown there. You may be able to change the width in the Dropdown Call template, but my CSS is rusty

[Uber_Tiny]

I must be missing something. I have done everything I can to figure out where you would fill out the information for it to show up in a drop down. There are no options in the User CP on my forums. I am using vBulletin? Version 3.7.4.

site - www.geforce3d.net

Any information would be greatly appreciated.

EDIT: Just as I say that, I figure it out. To bad it's not in it's own section like some forums have it with the ability to select it from "Settings & Options" in the USER CP.

[Wired1]

You can change the edit link location.

[lazyseller]

Working Great Wired1!

I created two extra profile pages. How would i go about creating the second dropdown? for my 2nd extra profile page

[Wired1]

You'd have to modify the names of all of the variables and template names (e.g. add a 2 at the end). However, I have seen posts where people have issues when more than one plugin uses the same hook to display data, so I don't know if this would work or not.

[japancars]

I like that mod! Exactly what i'am searching...

But i have still one Problem. I use this to display different mods of the User Cars. Some fields have multirows. How can i display them correctly? In the picture you can see what i mean. The width of the table is to high...