Shoutbox

Hi all, wondering a few things. Do you have a widget that can be used on my main vBulletin CMS page? I like to have updates shown on that part of my site.

Also, do you have the ability to open the shoutbox in a full page with my header and footer?

Last one, is there a way I can get rid of the shout box on my main forum page? I just want users to see it on the CMS and if they open the full page chat/shout.

Mike

We don't have a dedicated widget for use in the CMS, however the deployment system can be used for it:

To put vBShout in a custom location, do the following:


Step 1: AdminCP -> DBTech - vBShout-> Instance Management -> [Edit].

Step 2: Change the Auto-Display Shoutbox setting to Disabled.

Step 3: Change the Shoutbox Deployment setting to include the script names of all the pages you wish the Shoutbox to appear on. For instance:
To have it appear on the front page (CMS) as well as the Forum Home, you'd enter index,vbcms for this setting.
To have it appear on every page, you'd remove the contents of this setting.

Step 4: Change the Manually Display Shoutbox setting to include the template names you wish the Shoutbox to appear on. For instance:
To have it appear on the front page (CMS) as well as the Forum Home, you'd enter FORUMHOME,vbcms_page for this setting.
To have it appear on every page, you'd enter navbar for this setting.

Step 5: Enter the Style Manager and add either {vb:raw vbshout} (vB4) or {$vbshout} (vB3) to the templates you named in Step 4 in the desired location.


Follow these steps as described and you will have total control over the position of the Shoutbox.
Please note that some locations may not work as intended on vBulletin 3.8, and also note that it is not designed to go in the Forum Blocks side-bar (vBulletin 4).

Hope that helps

Thanks Fillip. Looking good. I can see it on the top of my CMS now. However, I would like to change the box so that it doesn't take up so much room. Is there a way I can put this into a Widget so I can include it on my main CMS page as a BLOCK? How would I do this?

We don't support any widgets but you could try using the Deployment features to achieve what you want.

To put vBShout in a custom location, do the following:


Step 1: AdminCP -> DBTech - vBShout-> Instance Management -> [Edit].

Step 2: Change the Auto-Display Shoutbox setting to Disabled.

Step 3: Change the Shoutbox Deployment setting to include the script names of all the pages you wish the Shoutbox to appear on. For instance:
To have it appear on the front page (CMS) as well as the Forum Home, you'd enter index,vbcms for this setting.
To have it appear on every page, you'd remove the contents of this setting.

Step 4: Change the Manually Display Shoutbox setting to include the template names you wish the Shoutbox to appear on. For instance:
To have it appear on the front page (CMS) as well as the Forum Home, you'd enter FORUMHOME,vbcms_page for this setting.
To have it appear on every page, you'd enter navbar for this setting.

Step 5: Enter the Style Manager and add either {vb:raw vbshout} (vB4) or {$vbshout} (vB3) to the templates you named in Step 4 in the desired location.


Follow these steps as described and you will have total control over the position of the Shoutbox.
Please note that some locations may not work as intended on vBulletin 3.8, and also note that it is not designed to go in the Forum Blocks side-bar (vBulletin 4).

Hope that helps

Same instructions twice... ok got it. No widgets available.

If you want to put my name down, along with all the others, I'd like to see a widget for both the shoutbox and the infopanels. I haven't tried your other products, yet, but I'm sure you guys would benefit from creating widgets for your product line. I would pay extra for a widget.

Sorry about that, didn't realise I had put them already in this thread