Forum Home Enhancements - [DBTech] DragonByte Forum Tabs v1 (vB4)

DragonByte Forum Tabs organizes the forum home page and it's forum content into Categories and AJAX Powered Tabs and includes a customizable Favourites Tab and a template editing free install.

Uses

Organizing the forums on the forum home into Tabs and those Tabs into Categories allows administrators to organize their content and reduce the length of the forum list. With AJAX powered Tabs as well as one click Favouriting of forums to add to a user's personal Favourites Tab, DFT makes navigating the forum home a more pleasant and customizable experience for users and admins alike.

Category Tabs can also have different styling allowing for very different looking sections to your forum home page. Tabs are remembered when coming back to the forum home page.

Installation is simple and includes no template edits.

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* 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 & Product Demos available at: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com

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Major Features

AJAX Powered Tabs: Dynamically loaded AJAX Powered Tabs each with a customizable list of forums, including setting Tabs to being global and visible on all Category Tabs.

Stylized Category Tabs: Each Category Tab organizes the AJAX Powered Tabs and can have individual styles attributed to them.

Personal Favourite Tab: Each user can manage and organize their own Favourites Tab to contain just the forums they want to see.


Complete Feature List

Lite

AdminCP

• Customizable Tabs and Category Tabs
• Per Category Style
• Usergroup controlled permissions for each Category and Tab
• Option to sticky Tabs and Categories to prioritise them in display
• Set default tab per Category to override global defaults
• StyleVars for customizing the Tabs and Categories
• Can choose between image, text or both image and text tab display

vBulletin Options

• Set how many columns hidden/unstickied Category Tabs are displayed in
• Set how many columns subforums are displayed in on the forum home
• Enable or Disable the 'More' tab that contains hidden/unstickied Category Tabs
• Tab Idle Timer setting
• Global Default Tab setting
• Option to display notifications to users or not
• Set Default Usergroups when creating new Tabs and Category Tabs
• Disable the display of the Category Tabs

Forum Home

• Tabs load using AJAX
• Category Tabs can use different styles
• Tabs and Category Tabs can use an image only, text only or both text and images
• Favourite Tab
• Add forums to Favourites tab by one click on Forum Home and Forum Display pages
• Add forums via User Control Panel
• Drop down menu to add favourite forums in Forum Display pages
• Unstickied/hidden Category Tabs toggled by 'More' button
• Dimissable notifications for users who have not set a favourite forum or a default ta
• Subforums organized into customizable columns.

Pro

AdminCP

• Optional default or forced forums for Favourites tab
• Choose which instance of vBShout to display for that tab, if any (requires vBShout)

vBulletin Notices

• Set whether a notice will appear above the forums list for a particular tab

Forum Manager

• Automatically add a forum to the Favourites list for all users

vBulletin Options

• Tab Refresh Timer setting
• Option to display Unread Threads Counters on Tabs
• Tab Refresh flood check to prevent excessive tab reload

Forum Home

• Tabs automatically refresh
• Tabs automatically idle
• Tabs automatically unidle
• Remove all favourites options in drop down menu on Forum Home and Forum Display pages
• Add and Remove all subforums from favourites list
• Set default tab to load in the User Control Panel
• Integration with vBulletin's default Notices system so that notices will appear above the forums only when set to
• Unread Thread count can be placed within the Tabs
• vBShout integration above forums per tab (requires vBShout)

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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of all pages generated by this mod which includes:

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

[DragonByte Tech]

Released a bug fix (v1.0.5) for DragonByte Forum Tabs (#DFT) to fix an issue with Favourites in some MySQL setups.

Fixed: A bug where in some instances the Favourites threw out a database error.

[DragonByte Tech]

I've uploaded the files again as there was an error in the package uploaded. Please redownload if you downloaded v1.0.5 before this message.

[gettingbetter]

Hello. I've downloaded and installed the mod and adjusted the settings to make tabs appear, but they are nowhere to be found on my forum. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. Have version 4.0.8.

Definitely have tabs and categories created. What could be wrong?

[SpikedRocker]

I have a dark themed, forum, trying to figure out where I need to make CSS edits. Any idea where I can look?

NVM I found it using the style varible editor.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by gettingbetter

Hello. I've downloaded and installed the mod and adjusted the settings to make tabs appear, but they are nowhere to be found on my forum. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. Have version 4.0.8.

Definitely have tabs and categories created. What could be wrong?

Do you have this problem if you look at the forum with a Default style? What settings have you adjusted during the setup?

AJAX Tabs need to have a parent Category Tab, and both need to be marked as active.

If you want to create an account for me to look at the settings in the ACP, please PM me the website location, along with a username and password and I'll take a look.

Matt

[lurch_cr]

G'day mate,
I install this mod and once I got my head around the admin side of things - brilliant job!
One issue however; we use a wiki mod called VaultWiki. The 'Wiki' forums will not appear in the tab I put them in

Any thought? Am happy to give you access etc to play...

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by lurch_cr

G'day mate,
I install this mod and once I got my head around the admin side of things - brilliant job!
One issue however; we use a wiki mod called VaultWiki. The 'Wiki' forums will not appear in the tab I put them in

Any thought? Am happy to give you access etc to play...

Glad you like it.

I use VaultWiki as well and haven't had any issues in the normal forum display showing up. Which version are you currently using and is it Lite or Pro? If you want to send me an Admin account to access the details via PM, then I'll take a look and see if there's anything unusual.

Matt

[lurch_cr]

Its pro.
Login details on their way

[DragonByte Tech]

Thanks lurch. Will have a look now and see what's what.

Matt

[lurch_cr]

Firstly - HUGE thanks to Matt for looking into the bug with VaultWiki and giving me a work around.

This is a fantastic mod, highly recommended.