Attachment Descriptions

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|| Attachment Descriptions for vBulletin 3.0.7
|| Author : Psionic Vision
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What is this:
It enchances attachment upload interface with a new 'attachment description' field

Features:

• Conveniently enchances attachment upload screen with the description field (see screenshots)
• Displays attachment descriptions in:
  Attachment Manager, Post Edit (newthread, newreply, editpost) and Attachment List (in posts)

[Lionel]

I simply placed this in postbit_attachmentthumbnail template

<div align="left"> >$attachment[description]</div>

[kmike]

Small proposal: add another <if> to postbit_attachmentimage, to remove caption tooltip when description is empty.
Also, I added title parameter as it is more standards compliant than ALT (i.e. tooltip will work in Mozilla/Firefox, too).

###########################################################################################################################
# postbit_attachmentimage
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FIND:
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alt=""

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REPLACE WITH:
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alt="<if condition="!empty($attachment[description])">$vbphrase[attachdescription_caption] $attachment[description]" title="$vbphrase[attachdescription_caption] $attachment[description]</if>"

[akanevsky]

kmike,

I completely agree with you, thanks for sharing.
I will update the hack with your postbit_attachmentimage later on.

[YLP1]

Originally Posted by Lionel

I simply placed this in postbit_attachmentthumbnail template

Where should this snippet of code go in this template? <div align="left"> >$attachment[description]</div>

I added a description to test it out on my forum and when I mouseover the graphic I get this:

Description: [ARG:4 Undefined]

Edited to add that I fixed the above..quite by accident LOL

In postbit_attachmentthumbnail my title part looks like this:
title="<phrase 1="$attachment[filename]" 2="$attachment[counter]" 3="$attachment[filesize]" 4="$attachment[description]">$vbphrase[image_larger_version_x_y_z]</phrase>" /></a>

But I still can't get the description to show under the thumbnail...

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[akanevsky]

It should be:

<div align="left">$attachment[description]</div>

instead of

<div align="left"> >$attachment[description]</div>

[YLP1]

Originally Posted by Dark Visor

It should be:

<div align="left">$attachment[description]</div>

instead of

<div align="left"> >$attachment[description]</div>

Yep...I did change that but I still cannot get the description to appear under the thumbnail.

[kmike]

Originally Posted by JimpsEd

I have it installed, but getting this script error after uploading something:

Line: 337
Char: 273
Unterminated string constant

Line 337 is:

	attachlist.innerHTML = "<div style=\"margin:2px\"><img class=\"inlineimg\" src=\"images/attach/rtf.gif\" alt=\"magnetic field questions.rtf\" border=\"0\" /> <a href=\"attachment.php?attachmentid=5&amp;stc=1\" target=\"_blank\">magnetic field questions.rtf</a> (758.2 KB)

Any ideas?

I got bitten by this, too. It appears IE doesn't like multi-line initializations in Javascript, so every multi-line descriptions will trigger this warning. Also you can 100% trigger this by placing unnecessary new line break in newpost_attachmentbit template.

I got it resolved by rolling back the change in newpost_attachmentbit template. I don't see why it is needed there at all.

[akanevsky]

I would suggest replacing your newpost_attachmentbit template and newpost_attachment templates to their vBulletin originals. Then this will work.

[YLP1]

Originally Posted by Dark Visor

I would suggest replacing your newpost_attachmentbit template and newpost_attachment templates to their vBulletin originals. Then this will work.

I wasn't sure if this post was for me or the one just below mine...but I tried it anyway and I still cannot seem to place the caption of the attachment below the attachment.

Any ideas?

[akanevsky]

YLP1,

My post was addressed to kmike. About you, well you are placing the code in a wrong place... Place your code outside of the <img ...> tag. Right after it.