Show Thread Enhancements - Chief First Post - Every Page - 3.6.x

Chief First Post - Every Page
With this mod, you can convert the view of the thread in to 4 different type. Additionally you can change the view as you edit click the edit button. The 1st message of the thread will stay at top all the time even while you are checking other messages related to this subject.

Thread Type
Postbit Article
Postbit Flipped
Postbit Normal
Postbit Legacy


install

Go to your admin cp, then:
Plugin System -> Manage Products -> [Add/Import Product] -> Select 'product-chiefpost.xml' from your computer then press 'Import'

Modifications Info

Plugin : 12
Phrases : 3
Template : 3
Setting : 0

Versions:
v1.0 - 24 August 2007
-First release

v1.0.1 - 26 August 2007
-Rating Phrase fixed

With this mod, you can convert the view of the thread in to 4 different type. Additionally you can change the view as you edit click the edit button. The 1st message of the thread will stay at top all the time even while you are checking other messages related to this subject.

[Aeolian]

Originally Posted by rapidphim

can this awesome mod be upgraded for upcoming vb 3.7? my board will be meaningless without this mod.

i have tested the mod in vb 3.7 b3, and it works fine.

[Aeolian]

Originally Posted by Aeolian

in postbit article option, "Rating: ()" option comes in every topic irrespective of the fact that the section does not allow rating a thread..
how to resolve :s
thanks in advance

BUMP

[hdrmut]

Not work with 3.6.8


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[safakuygur]

installed..
Thanks Atakan KOÇ

[voter]

For "Rating: ()" option comes in every topic irrespective of the fact that the section does not allow rating a thread..

Find in postbit_articles

<div><if condition="$thread['rating']">
<strong>$vbphrase[rating]:</strong>
<img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_rating]/rating_$thread[rating].gif" alt="" />
<span class="smallfont">
<phrase 1="$thread[votenum]" 2="$thread[voteavg]">$vbphrase[cp_x_votes_y_average]</phrase>
</span>
<else />
<img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_rating]/rating_0.gif" alt="" />
<span class="smallfont">
(<phrase 1="$thread[votenum]" 2="$thread[voteavg]">$vbphrase[mxe_x_votes_y_average]</phrase>)
</span>
</if></div>

Replace it with

<if condition="$show['threadratings'] AND $show['threadrating']">
<div>
<if condition="$thread['rating']">
<strong>$vbphrase[rating]:</strong> 
<img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_rating]/rating_$thread[rating].gif" alt="" />
<span class="smallfont">
<phrase 1="$thread[votenum]" 2="$thread[voteavg]">$vbphrase[cp_x_votes_y_average]</phrase>
</span>
<else />
<img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_rating]/rating_0.gif" alt="" />
<span class="smallfont">
(<phrase 1="$thread[votenum]" 2="$thread[voteavg]">$vbphrase[mxe_x_votes_y_average]</phrase>)
</span>
</if>
</div>
</if>

For advanced users and may be for further release from Atakan I add an if condition - in red, don'T forgot the to close the if.

[voter]

It would be greate enhancement, if one will have a option in userCP, such that every user could deside, do he want a view with chief post or not.

Something similar to display modes, that every user could decide in which mode he would like to display threads.

[voter]

Originally Posted by demgel

Well, TO ME is annoying that everything is in posbit_article mode by default, so... to choose the default posbit, in the XML search:

default:
$this->templatename = 'postbit_articles';

So, change postbit_articles for the default mode you like.

These are the four options you can use:

postbit_legacy
postbit_articles
postbit_flipped
postbit (this is the normal mode)

So, then you import the product (reeplacing the old one by this one).

Saludos desde chile! (My english really sucks, I now)

PD: Don't know if this was posted already on this thread.
PD2: Atakan KOC, YOU ARE THE MAN!!! I've been waiting for this since march!!

Check the first page of thread https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....5&postcount=20 it is more safe, than hardcoding the XML file.

[voter]

Any idea how to switch this off in one style and let it be in another?
I have many styles and think to allow users, who don't like this way of showing the threads, choose just another style.

[amirlol]

Thank you very much

[WreckRman2]

I like this... the only thing that would make this better would be the ability to merge posts into the first one. Example... I have a forum where a guy builds a kit airplane. Something that takes many days to get done. So if one could click add to post of something and create a new post it would create a timeline within the first post and also show attachments based on the day they were uploaded instead of all at the bottom. Kinda like a blog in a way.