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.

[Qamdad]

It's work now ..

[Snake]

Thanks for the update!

[princeedward]

thanks installed...

[Pod]

I've installed it.

The only complaint I have is that the text under the box (Increase size / Decrease size / You have used...) is not phrased, so can't be translated that easily.

[Trickster303]

Nice touch, thanks!!

[Analogpoint]

Originally Posted by soypod

I've installed it.

The only complaint I have is that the text under the box (Increase size / Decrease size / You have used...) is not phrased, so can't be translated that easily.

Yes, something like: "You have used {1}/{2} characters." would be nice, so we can easily change it to "A total of {2} characters allowed, {1} currently used." or whatever.

For what it's worth, I changed the template a bit to put the "characters left" message on the left side, and the increase/decrease size links on the right, but on the same line, so they take less space. If that wants to work it's way into the next version, that's fine with me

Also this might seem obsessive/compulsive, but I'd change the text of the save button from "Save notepad" to "Save Notepad", just so it looks more like default vB stuff.

[scdurwood]

How difficult would it be to make this usergroup specific?

[yoyoyoyo]

Originally Posted by Analogpoint

Yes, something like: "You have used {1}/{2} characters." would be nice, so we can easily change it to "A total of {2} characters allowed, {1} currently used." or whatever.

For what it's worth, I changed the template a bit to put the "characters left" message on the left side, and the increase/decrease size links on the right, but on the same line, so they take less space. If that wants to work it's way into the next version, that's fine with me

Also this might seem obsessive/compulsive, but I'd change the text of the save button from "Save notepad" to "Save Notepad", just so it looks more like default vB stuff.

agreed

[Analogpoint]

Also, the character limit message should turn red when the contents exceeds the allowed limit, not when it matches it.

You have used 99/100 characters.
You have used 100/100 characters. <- it turns red here, but they're still within the limit
You have used 101/100 characters. <- it should turn red when it exceeds the limit.

[antialiasis]

It was more thought of as a reminder that now they can't type more, but I guess it makes more sense the other way around.

Augh, forgot to phrase that thing. Will do. As for usergroup specific, that shouldn't be hard at all either. I'll go work on that stuff.

For what it's worth, I changed the template a bit to put the "characters left" message on the left side, and the increase/decrease size links on the right, but on the same line, so they take less space.

I originally intended to do it that way, but it only really works when the personal notepad is liquid-width - if it were fixed, those would land somewhere by the notepad's side, and it would look awkward. I might look into making it appear this way for liquid-width, I suppose...

EDIT: Okay, got that done.