Mini Mods - [DBTech] User Spotlight v1 (vB4)

DragonByte Technologies are proud to present User Spotlight v1: A mini mod to show a random member on your forumhome page.


Why User Spotlight?

DBTech's User Spotlight mod lets you display a random member on your forum home page as a way to increase member commmunication.

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What does 'Marking As Installed' do ?

* It helps you to stay on top of updates - members who have installed modifications will be notified by us whenever new updates are available.

* For security issues - vbulletin.org will contact all members who have installed a modification whenever a security issue is brought to their attention.

* Marking a modification as installed also helps us know how many people are using our work, giving us extra incentive to provide more features and new modifications.

We appreciate the support!

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Priority support for this version is handled at the Developers Website.

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Major Features

ForumHome Integration: Members' details will show in the infobar on the forumhome.

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Feature List

• Random user selected every night
• Admin override of selected user
• Admin variables to limit selected users by number of posts, reputation and days active

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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of the forum home page which includes:

• 1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[Ole_Chilli]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

I've gotten a couple requests for that. As soon as I have a few free hours I'll work on getting it as a CMS widget.



I have it running on 4.1.3. Which location are you trying to display it at? under navbar, wgo or sidebar?

Dylan

tried it in every location still nothing .

[Ole_Chilli]

ha I am an idiot .

I did not select any "usergroups allowed" to see it

[Dozer826]

Great Mod! Marked as Installed!

1 question, I was able to go in and edit it to take out the Last Activity and Most Visited. I'd like to add some other custom fields I've created, 3 to be infact. What would I need to edit and what code would I need to enter to achieve this?

Thanks in advance

[ozzy47]

Originally Posted by Dozer826

Great Mod! Marked as Installed!

1 question, I was able to go in and edit it to take out the Last Activity and Most Visited. I'd like to add some other custom fields I've created, 3 to be infact. What would I need to edit and what code would I need to enter to achieve this?

Thanks in advance

What custom fields, in user profile?

[Dozer826]

field10, field11, field13

They are profile fields admins manually fill in so we know everyone who will be showing up in the spotlight will have one.

[ozzy47]

Originally Posted by Dozer826

field10, field11, field13

They are profile fields admins manually fill in so we know everyone who will be showing up in the spotlight will have one.

Ok in ACP, Settings/Dragonbyte-Tech: Spotlight - General Options look for Custom Profile Fields and ass them there.

Add the custom profile field id's that would like to be displayed. For multiple fields, separate them with a commaFor example, if you want to display the data from custom profile field43 and field68, enter 43,68

[Dozer826]

Hey Ozzy thanks for your response bud. At first that’s what I was doing but it was only showing 3 out of the 5 profile fields I had entered for some reason. That’s when I went in and deleted 2 of the default fields (Most Visited and Last Activity) and tried to manually add the 2 custom fields that weren’t showing up. Upon opening the site today all fields were visible so it must have just needed a little time to kick in I guess.

Thanks again for the response, and where did u get that admincp style? Love the black and red. I used to have that on an old site of mine and haven’t been able to find one for 4.1.2.

[ozzy47]

@Dozer826 here it is https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ht=heavy+metal

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by Dozer826

Hey Ozzy thanks for your response bud. At first that?s what I was doing but it was only showing 3 out of the 5 profile fields I had entered for some reason. That?s when I went in and deleted 2 of the default fields (Most Visited and Last Activity) and tried to manually add the 2 custom fields that weren?t showing up. Upon opening the site today all fields were visible so it must have just needed a little time to kick in I guess.

Thanks again for the response, and where did u get that admincp style? Love the black and red. I used to have that on an old site of mine and haven?t been able to find one for 4.1.2.

Are you using it as a forum sidebar? If you do, any changes you make aren't seen until it's recached

[ozzy47]

Dylanblitz is correct, and I believe [DBTech] has that set at 5min as default for the cache, you can change it in Forum Blocks Manager/Edit block: Spotlight User/Cache Time (in minutes)